AUSTRALIA'S ORIGINAL AND BEST CAMP OVEN AND OUTDOOR COOKING CAMPING AND LIFESTYLE FORUM - Aluminium Innamincka Cooper Creek camp Oven

Feb 6^th, 2011 at 3:55pm

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Came across this oven at Xmas while in Broken Hill. I suspect that it was made by the mob in Grafton who make the aluminium ovens. I presume that they were sold at the Innamincka Store in past years as a usefull souvenir. Thought there should be an example of these ovens in the history/ identification section.
Does anyone else have one, or know more?????????

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Reply #1 - Feb 6^th, 2011 at 6:30pm

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Another nice find, great casting on the lid, SBB is that Innamincka in South Australia. If so I went there around 1983 not much to see from what I can remember Grin

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Reply #2 - May 19^th, 2011 at 3:36pm

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Nice find Nelson.

The lid looks very similar to my aluminum Aussie Oven (also featured in the COCIA 'History Section'). I don't suppose you would have some more photos of the base and side views of your pot?

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Reply #3 - Jun 1^st, 2011 at 8:49pm

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Ohh I loved camping at Innaminka...wished those ovens were there then, great souvenir

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Reply #4 - Sep 18^th, 2011 at 8:41am

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Just stumbled across this web site, as a matter of interest we were the manufacturers of the cast alloy camp ovens in an out of the way place outside of Grafton. The photo of the camp oven from Innamincka was first supplied to the Innamincka Trading Post when it was owned by Mike Steele & Andrew. We then supplied future owners of the trading post with the same cast lid until we ceased trading somewhere around 2001. All our camp ovens had the trademark of the gum leaves on the lids. It was a very hard market to break into, as there were so many cheep cast iron imports, but thanks to the likes of Ken from Freedom Camping from Melbourne who only sold quality products we managed to get our foot in the door. We traded under the name of Gurranang Foundry as that was the name of the area we lived in 30ks north of Grafton. We then built a new factory in Trenayre Industrial Estate a lot closer to Grafton, and went from alluminium into the plastics industry. We have since left the area and live in the middle of NSW in Lake Cargelligo. Attached is a picture of the range of camp ovens we made while operating the foundry. Attached is the range of camp ovens we made. Regards Aussie Noel

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Reply #5 - Sep 18^th, 2011 at 8:52am

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Sorry about the pic, obviously it's the wrong one. Well this is the 2nd try trying to upload the right pic.

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Reply #6 - Sep 18^th, 2011 at 8:57am

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That's better Noel. Could not see many in your first pic.
Have you ever thought about producing them again?
I am certain the market, especially with people conected to sites like this would help sales immensely.
Regards Garry

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Reply #7 - Sep 18^th, 2011 at 9:31pm

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g'day aussie noel

i have purchased a lot of camping gear from ken, when they were in elizabeth street melb.

i still have this tent i purchased about 20 years ago

http://www.freedomcamping.com.au/mc.html

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Reply #8 - Sep 19^th, 2011 at 8:54am

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I must have missed the original post.
Good looking pot.

Aart

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Reply #9 - Sep 19^th, 2011 at 6:45pm

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G'day Aussie.
Any chance of a photo thats a bit bigger?? Pretty hard to see whats what in that photo. It looks like you had a range of sizes....what sizes did you make??

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