Sunflame Ltd. was a division of Secony Mobil Oil Corp. During the late 1930's and 1940's they sold mantle lamps both domestically and for export. Sun Flame lamps were manufactured by Farmor Manufacturing Co. using the Farmor burner and the same glass mold as was used to make a the classic bell stem version of Farmor lamp. Their mantle lamps were basically a Farmor classic bell stem lamp in white milk glass with a different wick adjuster knob.
According to Bill Gardner Mobile Oil exported these lamps to several countries, each with different model names. Those exported to Australia were branded Sunny model 505 lamps on the filler cap and the round brass wick adjustment knob had the front 2/3rds of the Mobile Oil Pegasus logo.
Between 1945 and 1948 Sun Flame sold a small flat wick lamp into China, they called their "Fu Manchu" lamp. They sold one million of these lamps by 1948 when China fell to the communists and export was halted because the United States government halted export of products made from brass and aluminum to China.
Documents:
Operating manual (pdf)
Sun Flame mantles (pdf) Sun Flame sold mantles for their own lamp and for Aladdin lamps
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