Ronson History

The Ronson Company was established more then 100 years ago. Over these years we have learned that Ronson is the inventor, manufacturer, innovator and supplier of cigarette lighters. Over the decades Ronson has proven to be the important party in the innovations, which finally made the cigarette lighters that we use today.

A few worth knowing facts about Ronson:

• Ronson is the inventor of the first mechanic cigarette lighter
• Ronson is the inventor of the multi-refillable gas-lighter
• Ronson is the inventor of the gas-lighter with adjustable flame
• Ronson is the patent holder of Worlds first gas valve.
• Ronson is the inventor of the gas can, to refill gas-lighters
• In the ’60s the Ronson name was ranked on the 7th place of Worlds best-known and recognised brand names. Above Ronson ware names as, Coca Cola, Ford, General Motors etc.
• The writer Ian Flamming describes the hero of his famous ‘Jams Bond‘ books with the Ronson Premier Varaflame. Unfortunately this was never used in the James Bond movies.
• The first man that crossed the Atlantic Ocean by rowing boat ‘John Fairfax’ thanks his life to his Ronson lighter. We describes in his letter ‘Where other products failed, the only thing I could rely on was my Ronson Lighter’. (Click here to see the letter).
• Ronson’s working is a conmen known fact, ‘Ronson lights the first time’. Even in the war, the ‘Sherman tank’ got the nickname ‘The Ronson’. The enemy had to shoot once on the tank, to bring is to fire.
• Ronson is back,... Stronger as ever!

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