Charcol floor heater?

[wenthur]

I picked up a floor heater, metal box with drawer and a charcoal brick in the drawer, don't know what flue to use and how to operate, any suggestions? the heater seats on floor and passenger can put feet on it. Is it dangerous?

[Rusty_OToole]

This was a common type of heater used in carriages, sleighs, and early cars of the Model T era.

You heat the brick in the oven of the old wood stove. Put the hot brick in the heater. Then put it on the floor of your cutter, rest your feet on it, and cover your knees with a lap robe or buffalo robe.

The robe went from the floor over your lap and trapped the heat around your legs.

My grandfather had such heaters and buffalo robes too, which my mother and grandmother used in the old Model T.

That's what they had before modern heaters came in, in the late 20s. Up until the late 30s most cars had no heater at all, then accessory heaters came into vogue, either the hot water type or the South Wind gas heater which came out in 1935.

The first car with a built in heating system of the modern type was Nash in 1940.

So your heater might have been in use from the 19th century right up to the late 30s.

[wenthur]

Rusty, You just saved my life, I was thinking I had to put kerosene in the brick and lite it on fire.slide the door back in and and go for a cruise. THANK YOU and my wife THANKS YOU.