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 [[File:Airstream.jpg|thumb|right|145px|Reaming Tool]]
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-[[File:1820391231429099.jpeg|frameless|border|left|50px|]]A pipe with a reaming device for removing excess carbon (Reg. N°: 759163). That operated through the bottom of the bowl (one of which pipes belonged to King George VI) was known as the "M.C"<ref name=jcl10>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After, The Beginnings (pp. 48-49). Chicago: self-published.</ref>. When the pipe was smoked, the circular saw-toothed 'reamer' disc rested on the inside bottom of the bowl and the thin handle (still attached to the disc) folded back and rested underneath the shank.<br>
+[[File:1820391231429099.jpeg|frameless|border|left|40px|]]A pipe with a reaming device for removing excess carbon (Reg. N°: 759163). That operated through the bottom of the bowl (one of which pipes belonged to King George VI) was known as the "M.C"<ref name=jcl10>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After, The Beginnings (pp. 48-49). Chicago: self-published.</ref>. When the pipe was smoked, the circular saw-toothed 'reamer' disc rested on the inside bottom of the bowl and the thin handle (still attached to the disc) folded back and rested underneath the shank.[[File:Dunhill-airstream-smoking-pipe.jpg|frameless|border|left|40px]]<br>The "carburetor" pipe which had a small mushroom-shaped metal device fixed at the bottom of the inside of the bowl to act as a heat sink (later named "Airstream").
-[[File:Dunhill-airstream-smoking-pipe.jpg|frameless|border|left|50px]]<br>The "carburetor" pipe which had a small mushroom-shaped metal device fixed at the bottom of the inside of the bowl to act as a heat sink (later named "Airstream").
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 '''Note:''' The reaming device is adjusted (threading) by a tool specially developed for this function, as illustrated in the image on the right. The Airstream cannot be adjusted. The first Airstream devices appeared (according to Loring) in the '30s<ref name=jcl10>Loring, J. C. (1998) The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After, The Beginnings (pp. 48-49). Chicago: self-published.</ref> and possibly applied up to the end of the '70s. The Reaming Device was, apparently, only used in the '30s.