The setting up of a new industry in Australia, manufacture from locally-produced materials of blow-lamps, is due to the enterprise of two Australian Jews, Eric and Hans Vidor. The lamps were previously imported from Sweden, but this has now become impossible because of the war.
The imported lamp contained brass, but with sheet brass unobtainable in Australia, a process for treating car body steel was brought in under licence from Canada and this treated steel is claimed to be even more pressure-resisting than brass. Kerosene cookers are also being manufactured by the company.
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