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Originally Posted by Bluebird
Thanks Jean, I thought that must have been the case....so now I have to ask...what fuels Ascot boilers please?
This cottage is in a country village with only paraffin, coal and wood - no gas or electricity.
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I may be able to help a bit here - In the normal sized world, I work for Calor Gas and I'm currently helping put together an archive of old stuff for the 75th anniversary, so I'm swamped with stuff like this! A lot of country homes used cylinder butane gas, when they were 'off mains'. These were used to run cookers, fridges, anything that natural gas could have run in town. I would assume an Ascot boiler could run off of a cylinder too. The company started in 1935 so you would be well 'within period'.
I'm doing a 1940s house and although my family live in London and actually probably would have had mains gas, I have decided I *have* to make them a little grey modelling clay Calor cylinder to put in the shed, or in their bomb shelter - just because! If you wanted to do something similar, I can probably get a photograph of a vintage cylinder (they were quite different looking back then, but I have a couple kicking around for the museum) and send it to you, for reference.
Good luck - I am always super-interested to see what other people are doing with 'wartime' dolls houses. If you don't already have it, Jane Harrop's book, "Thirties and Forties Miniatures in 1:12 Scale" is invaluable - there's lots of information in there, and her kits are great.