ELSAN .....alway wondered why the toilet dump point was call this. (1 Viewer)

[WillysMB]

 

[Dorwyn]

the word Elsan to me is a reminder of some old oil tank fitted with an uncomfortable toilet seat over the most horrible smelling chemicals which stank through the whole caravan out back in the fifties. I think i preferred the French squat toilets as a child!!

At least they washed your feet if you weren't quick enough out of your door!

 

[L' Hobo]

I think I'm correct in saying that elsan was one of the first companies that made Leisure toilet ware and fluids to use in them.
It's a bit like calling all vacuum cleaners, Hoover's.

So the place where one emptied the waste was called an 'Elsan point'.

 

[3 cabbages]

Elsan was the surname of the man who designed the cassette we are now all familiar with!

 

[L' Hobo]

the word Elsan to me is a reminder of some old oil tank fitted with an uncomfortable toilet seat over the most horrible smelling chemicals which stank through the whole caravan out back in the fifties. I think i preferred the French squat toilets as a child!!

At least they washed your feet if you weren't quick enough out of your door!

You wouldn't when you got older and the knees were not what they used to be?

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[David and Sally]

I think i preferred the French squat toilets as a child!!

When you try those things you marvel at the skill of wartime bomb aimers

 

[scotjimland]

In the early 1920’s, Ephraim Louis Jackson, a London entrepreneur and amateur chemist could see a universal need for indoor sanitation and he invented and patented a unique design of toilet for use indoors with special chemicals to kill diseases and prevent foul odours. His business flourished and in 1924 he decided to found a company to concentrate on marketing these products.

Taking his initials E.L and the first three letters of sanitation he called his company ELSAN. Jackson’s forecasts for the future proved correct and his company quickly became the largest manufacturer of non-mains toilets in the UK.

our-history

 

[scotjimland]

Elsan was the surname of the man who designed the cassette we are now all familiar with!

close, see above post ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[Dorwyn]

Maybe so, but to me it was a smell worse than sh*t

 

[ctc]

One of the best toilet threads we've had for ages.

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[Brains]

.... and the competition for inside loos.
The Crapper

 

[Clivefog]

I swear the tank was like something out of Quatermass, pulsating pit of ..........

 

[L' Hobo]

I swear the tank was like something out of Quatermass, pulsating pit of ..........

Excellent, Organic Manure?

 

[Badknee]

I think i preferred the French squat toilets as a child!!

We call them Dick Turpin bogs………

Stand and deliver.

 

[icantremember]

This thread has brought back memories of caravaning in the 1950's, when, on west beach Selsey we had Dan Dan the lavatory man.
This guy used to come round with a horse drawn trailer carrying a large tank into which he would empty the camper's elsans like a coalman would tip a sack of nutty slack over his shoulder.

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[L' Hobo]

In the 50's and before, they were called 'Nightsoil Men' or some such?

 

[HugoBNB]

I think they were called Midden Men up our way. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

 

[Fdhadi]

Always thought Elsan was the Roman name for London.

 

[RobbyMClark]

We stayed (tent ) on a site near Silverstone many years ago.
As we went to the toilet block, Adele pipes up ,"Oh look they have a goat called Elsan"
She had no idea that it was a dump point for the caravans and thought it was the nearby goats name.
We still have a smile about it nearly 40 yrs later.

 

[cyberyacht]

Back in the 60's & 70's one of the compact models of marine toilets was called a "Baby Blake". In the pub with my wife and another yottie, we were discussing matters relating to fitting out and building boats. My friend mentioned that he had managed to buy a second-hand 'Baby Blake" at an auction. My wife, thinking it to be a marine engine enquired "how many horsepower is it?" As can be imagined, it was a source of some merriment.

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[Dorwyn]

We could have a permanent toilet thread csll
alled "Toilet Fred"! Or not!

 

[Keep Right On]

Elsan was the surname of the man who designed the cassette we are now all familiar with!

There is part of Gosport called Elson .....why?

 

[andykim]

Talking ablutions, not caravan related though, the worst chemical toilet i have ever had the mis pleasure to use was a concrete block building with a tin roof in Death Valley . It was a concrete plinth with a fixed toilet seat over a huge open tank about six feet deep. If a child fell through it wouldn't be pleasant.

 

[cyberyacht]

There is part of Gosport called Elson .....why?

Because it's crappier than even the rest of Gosport is. The only habitable bit is Alverstoke.

 

[Pausim]

There is part of Gosport called Elson .....why?

Because if Hampshire suffered from piles the ointment would be applied to Gosport.
(Old joke, I am sure Gosport has many fine attributes)

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[Pausim]

Elsan was the surname of the man who designed the cassette we are now all familiar with!

The Elsan chemical toilet dates back 60 years earlier than the 1980s when Thetford “claim” to have introduced the first cassette toilets. (Did they?) The chemical toilet inventor very wisely decided not to use his own name of Jackson for his business, unlike Thomas Crapper whose descendants probably wish he had been more imaginative.

Edit. Crapper threads are great, we need to flush out lots more.

 

[EMS]

The first time I met an Elsan was in the 1950s when we went strawberry picking on a family friends farm in Hampshire, a hut with the said ugly steel box inside and a smell to match.
But the strawberries were wonderful perhaps it was the compost!!!!!

 

[beeza]

as a kid ofter wonder if it was safer out side our Anderson shelter or in side with the Elsan

 

[mondo]

As an old soldier I have..shall we say..taken a shovel for a Recce..on more than one occasion..the good old thunderbox springs to mind..Cyprus..Kenya..even on Exercise in Thetford a few times..so Elsan was a blessing..well sort of...

 

[Ian Bosman]

Elsan was the surname of the man who designed the cassette we are now all familiar with!

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