The 2 lanterns on the left image are from South Africa and are quoted from Peet van der walt's collection with his permission. Thanks Peet.
The left one appears to be named "OLYMPIC", the right one named "MARATHON" and both have a brand name "APEX".
The information available now is as followings.
1) Apex is still registered now and owned by the CADAC, Commercial And Domestic Appliance Corporation of South Africa, but we have not yet confirmed the CADAC had made these pressure lanterns.
2) Apex brand name was once belonged to the JPM, Johannesburg Metal Pressings Company of South Africa, and the CADAC seems to have bought the JMP sometime in early 1970s in order to expand their stove business and got the APEX name.
3) We know the JPM had made pressure stoves named Apex but we are not sure if they had made pressure lanterns.
4) The CADAC also bought out Watcor Ltd in the same period who were a Cape Town company that made Dolphin stoves and lamps. The hood and burner on the Olympic lamp are the same design as a Dolphin. Please see the right image of the Dolphin lamp-stove conversion from South Africa which is quoted from Neil McRae's collection with his permission.
So, one probable assumption would be these APEX lanterns were made by the CADAC after they bought JPM & Watcor but again we have not confirmed the firm evidence yet.
If you have any information about these APEX lanterns, please let us know.
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