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.............................. Ronson
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Ronson is best known as an American company that gained world wide fame for high quality Cigar/Cigarette Lighters. In England, Ronson also had a large factory making gas lighters in the town of Leatherhead, Surrey. The factory was between the east bank of the River Mole and Randalls Road. The Leatherhead factory was torn down in the 1980s, and the site is now a Mole Valley council business park.
At some point American and European operations split into two companies. The American branch offers cheap butane disposables, a few refillable inexpensive butane lighters, and the Windii (a Zippo clone) along with its ubiquitous fluids and flints. The European branch offers a full range of butane lighters that appear to be stylish, priced in the Colibri or better range. The European Ronsons do not appear to be distributed in North America.
Ronson Plc operates from the UK in offices located in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire. The American branch is located in Somerset, New Jersey. Ronson lighters are still sought after, due to their storied history. In a recent legal battle, Ronson lighters were outlawed in Malaysia. As of 2007, a documentary entitled The Legend of Ronson has been announced by small time director David Gordon Green for release sometime in 2010.
The Ronson company started as The Art Metal Works in 1886 by a man named Louis V. Aronson. Louis was an exceptionally gifted man who at 16 years old received a U.S., Patent for a metal plating process he developed and which had an immediate commercial value.
Not only was he able to sell his patent for a very good price, he also retained legal rights to use his own process commercially. He took proceeds from the sale to open The Art Metal Works in New York city. The following year he moved his factory to Newark, New Jersey. Before long his company was producing lamps, book ends, statues and other decorative items for home and office use.
Louis Aronson applied for a patent in 1913 for a Liter (lighter) for which he later received a patent. Over the next few years additional lighter patent applications were submitted and granted. In 1926 he released his newly created Banjo lighter with Automatic operation. This meant that with one press of the thumb the lighter would light and when released the flame would be snuffed out. Louis received exclusive patent rights for the automatic style lighter.
Lighters were marketed under the Ronson name, which was a modification of his family name Aronson (A-Ronson). Ronson lighters were produced to high standards and were very reliable. Demand for Mr. Aronson's lighters exceeded production at first but under his leadership Ronson produced an impressive variety of Lighter styles to satisfy the public demand. Many of his early lighters are desirable and demand high prices for their collectable, artistic and historic significance.
During World War II, the plants were switched to 24-hour ammunition production, but returned to producing lighters after the war. In the late 1970s, with production costs rising and cheap disposable lighters appearing on the market, Ronson's decided to discontinue production in Leatherhead, England. The plant closed in the early 1980s, the workers arriving one morning to find the gates shut.
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