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What car magazine has done a feature on Thermos products for the car.

Why not use a flask or a travel mug for your coffee on the road?

Download the PDF below to view the feature and find out where to buy the products.

Auto Express, 11 June 2003 (Picnic Fantastic)

Price: £19.99 Type: Budget Places: Four
Rating: *****

Quite a large and bulky item, but commendably light despite being well insulated - keeping things cool for up to 12 hours. It had the same cutlery as the Thermos range's Lifestyle Cool Bag and Picnic Set, which worked well, and there were bowls to go with the plates - all housed neatly in the hollow lid. No wine holder was included, but the height of the box meant it could accomodate a 1.5-litre plastic bottle, and the internal design was such that none of your food would get squashed as you were carrying it. Priced keenly to help it sell in numbers, and easily our Best Budget Buy.

taken from - Homes & Property, Evening Standard 10 March 2004

You can send your children to school (and yourself to the office) with home-made hot dinners and forget about soggy-sandwishes, thanks to a new range of steel lined Food Flasks from Thermos that work just like soup flasks but are wider. They come with a folding stainless-steel spoon tucked into the lid. It is unbreakable, keeps hot food hot for seven hours and cold food cold for nine hours. There is even extra space in the lid for condiments. The 16oz size (model 2345) costs [£27.99].

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Auto Express, 11 June 2003 (Picnic Fantastic)

Price: £9.99 Type: Budget Places: Four
Rating: ***

With its searing lime-green colour scheme, this was clearly aimed at youngsters. The main compartment was larger and efficient cool bag. A zip pocket on the front held the utensils, and the plastic knives and forks worked well. Cheap enough to be used for spur-of-the-moment trips, but not suitable for a feast.

Period Living & Traditional Homes, August 2003

That staple of any picnic, trip to the seaside and even the odd polar expedition, the Thermos flask celebrates its 100th birthday this year. Yet, the origins of this ingenious invention date back to 1643, when the first vacuum was produced in Italy.

Following its discovery, the English Scientist, Sir James Dewar created a flask in 1892, consisting of one glass bottle within another and the air between the pumped out - but it was very fragile.

Six years later, after Dewar met a glass blower in Germany called Reinhold Burger, the first succesful vacuum flask was created. Production of the Thermos, derived from the Greek word therme meaning heat, finally began in 1904 in Munich, and in 1907 Thermos Limited was setup in England.

The early 20th Century was the golden age of travel, and the Thermos proved ideal on train trips, car journeys and channel crossings. During the First World War, when all production at the Thermos factory in Tottenham, London was turned over to war work. Thermoses were also made for the armed forces.

Today, Thermos exports to over 100 countries and still keeps the cold, cold and the hot, hot whether on the beach, up Mount Everest or in the countryside.