Who had one of these original 1960s & 70s Australian designed & manufactured Eveready Dolphin Torches. My dad being a electrician had a few when I was a youngster & I loved borrowing them & going out in the dark to do some spotlighting & scare the jeepers out of my sisters! The original 1965 Mark 1 version had two steel clips to hold the lens cover in place (see red torch) whereas the next version had plastic clips (orange torch). The Yellow Torch is a version 2 from the 1970s. The Dolphin Torch is an Australian classic design. Growing up in the country where outside was always dark the trusty dolphin would come in handy for locking up the chooks or even a game or torchlight tiggie. The rugged durability of the design made it as popular as vegemite and the trusty blue healer. Designed primarily as a floating torch for boating and marine applications the Eveready Dolphin was for many years the largest selling torch in Australia. Sydney industrial designer Paul Cockburn through his studio Design Field received the commission in the seventies to redesign this classic product. This project was critical in establishing Design Field as one of Australias foremost industrial design consultancies. Born in Australia, Paul studied in London in the late 1960s returning to Sydney in 1970.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:17:36 +0000
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