ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ - ANTONIO PUIG - FLAMAGAS/FLAMASATS 12TH ENTRY

                                                          

                                              Jutson lighter Greco faceted gold plated model

                                                           

                                     

                                        Jutson-10 automatic gas lighter and its breakdown

In the middle of the 1960s, our Jutson lighter factory continued to grow steadily, we produced 237 different models and they were increasingly more sophisticated and more automatic. In addition to being the leaders in the national market, we began to export to several countries as well as to markets as demanding as those of Switzerland and Germany. The machinery was already automatic in almost all models and gas was the predominant fuel, such as the Jutson-10 that just by pressing the side button, it turned on automatically. We also introduced the Jutson-Driver car cigarette lighter, very popular at the time, since the vehicles did not yet have an electric cigarette lighter and which was copied a little later by the competition. Likewise, we had a high-end lighter, the Greco model with a gold-plated finish and that, despite its high price, was very popular in those years. A family of products that was also very successful in the 1960s were our Universal or Multi-charge Gas Refills, since with them any brand of lighter on the market could be filled by adapting a specific nozzle for each type of lighter valve. This type of Multifill gas for lighters was plagiarized years later by the company Flamagas owned by the familly Puig.

                                                                

                                    

                                           Jutson Driver car lighter and its exploded view

                                                      

                            Our different Universal Gas lighter Charges or Multicharges

                                                     

                                 Our Universal Ibergas gas refill with the adapter nozzle

 

                                      

                        A few models of lighters from our catalogue from the late 60s

                       

Two export invoices to Germany from the end of 1968 for 3,500 Sun-Gas model lighters and 2,000                                                               Goya model lighters.

Thanks to our growth in the Spanish market and being the pioneers and market leaders, we had the opportunity for the most important European manufacturer of those years, the German brand from Nuremberg CONSUL, to trust our company and in 1967 we signed an agreement of representation for the launch of their lighters in the Spanish market through our company Metamar. Consul had nearly 1,000 employees and the most modern production technique. There were many models that we imported and many of them were designed by Count Sigvard Bernadotte, uncle of King Carl Gustaf of Sweden and who produced various designs of different types of products and the Royal, Facet and Crown lighter models.

                                                             

La Vanguardia newspaper page of 30, 5, 1967 where are the news of the arrival in Barcelona of the president of the Consul, Dr. Bernard Köllisch and his interview with my husband Josep Escribano is                                                                                      published

                                    

                           Dr Ernest Bearl, Bernard Köllisch and my husband Josep Escribano