Wanted to share how this burner is marked. This brass burner is about 3-1/2" wide, 2" high and has 23 fine holes around rim. Lid has rubber ring and attaches with quick lock type threads. Stamped Trangia and three crowns. enjoy Daryl Sunny SoCal
Hi, Daryl, The old Trangia burner is very cool, and I LOVE the old Earl Sheib ruler! "I can paint any car for only $19.95"! That brings back the memories, for sure! Doc
What do you mean by "older"? That's a military burner, which differs from the 'civilian' version(s). Some good reading here: Surplus Swedish army Stove/Cookset (alcohol)
It is a military specific burner made by Trangia in the 1960's and nearly identic with the ones marked "SVEA NC" of the same age - the one thing from regular Trangia that could be used with this one is the O-ring, not right size but useable.
A few threads before picture's of 'newer' burner were posted, that all. Wanted to share stamps on my burner that is in my mess kit. Looks like civilian burners were available from Trangia for hikers mid 1920's and even for sale on amazon today that say 'by trangia'. Were part of Swedish mess kit starting 1940. Maybe some can post pictures of 'even older' 1925-1940? I have only seen big 'T' 'svea' and 'Trangia' on the bottom, other than a plain one which should read 'China' Daryl +ruler read: Earl Scheib I Want Your Body
The burner is neat, but the ruler is the first thing I noticed. Southern California memories of days past. Doc missed the entire quote, though. "Hi, I'm Earl Scheib. I can paint any car any color for only $19.95." ....Arch
The Trangia spirit burner was born in 1930's, the first stove is today marketed as "Trangia 23 FYR". The "military burner" was in production from late 1950's, second batch from earliest 1960's got the design looking like "normal Trangia" and then this one with "quick lid" was born - about the time when the spirit stove attachment for the mess kit went into production, the largest batch seem to have been ordered by the time of "Cuba crisis" according to the most common stamps of the parts and that's the time Trangia made those burners. Before early 1960's the only cooking with swedish mess kits was done over open fire or on wood stoves in tents or barracks - the military kerosene stoves before 1970's were used for medical/surgical purposes and high rank mess tents with full tableware kit.
This is my oldest military burner - came with my oldest "jägarkök" military storm cooker(NC61 SVEA) along with a Trangia gripper(70's or later) that had replaced the original gripper. Marked "NC58 SVEA"
Earliest ‘civilian’ burner I have is the one on the left in these pics - 1950’s. The one on the right is current production.
Lennert, Thanks for the time line with correct information and pictures of your early burner. Reread article about Trangia history- company started 1925 making household pans and later developed the burner and Trangia complete cooking system . Daryl
My wife came home from the charity shop with this piece of kit, wondering what it might be. It looked like a small meths stove, and so it turned out. Just 3 inches across max, and an inch and eleven sixteenths high. Pocket job. Clearly a Trangia 'It says so on the lid' ! Will it work? It would be better with a pan support, but even without, it almost boiled this heavy but small pan half filled with water, until it ran out of fuel. (I had only one third filled it.) What jolly japes . . . But a question: What real purpose is the sliding cap - is it to reduce the burn rate; or simply a snuffer?
It's out of a Trangia storm cooker & you'll get better results with a pan support that lifts the pan a bit higher. There are cross-piece supports designed to slot together & onto the burner that achieves this. The sliding cap is a simmer device. An ebay pic
Excellent! Thank you. I'll be after a pot stand. But as a simmer device, the rotating part would foul the pot stand. What am I missing?
Don't worry - just seen some images: Brass Alcohol Burner & Simmering Ring & Cross Stand For Outdoor Hiking Camping 601593309374 | eBay
Pot support arrived, works well. Not impressed with the 'simmer ring'. Cannot be used in conjunction with the pot support, so only usable with a larger type of support. Handy little bit of kit. I like it.
@Stonehopper Seen here with Swedish M40/M44 army surplus wind shield and Hungarian mess kit. This set-up works okay with the simmer ring. Regards Jeremy
