Stalag 344 Blower

Stalag 344 Blower, a photo by Tram Painter on Flickr.

Stalag 344 Blower
This was device "kriegies" used to heat water quickly and efficiently in German Prisoner of War camps. My father described it to me and I tried to represent it in a drawing. The Klim tin on the left containes propellor like fins which fit snogly and can be turned by the handle on the front. This creates a draught by sucking sucking air from the aperture on the left and jetting it through the square tube connecting it to the burner. In the burner were twigs, leaves, cardboard and wood shavings which, fanned by the air, burned very hotly and could boil a dixie of water in seconds. Text by Tram Painter
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Stalag 344 Blower by Tram Painter