Kiko: Difference between revisions

1,061 bytes added ,  15 years ago
no edit summary
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 16: Line 16:
* '''White Elephant''' (Elephant logo)
* '''White Elephant''' (Elephant logo)


'''Kilimanjaro''' is an old brand from Amboseli Pipes, that belonged to Tanganyika Meerschaum Corporation, created in 1955, in Nairobi (Kenia). This enterprise was founded after the discovery in the Kilimanjaro mountains of a big meerschaum mine. This meerschaum is not so good as Turkish one, because it is more compacted and do not less so well leaving out from the pipe the tar and nicotine.
Soon after it was discovered another mine in the famous Amboseli Game Park.
The enterprise had moved his headquarters to Arusha (Tanzania) and made an association with a Belgian company, but close some years after.
Some of the brands produced used pressed or compacted meerschaum and not block meerschaum.
They have produced different brands like CAVEMAN, SPORTSMAN, TEMBO, TOWNSMAN, KIKO (that means pipe in Swahili language), KILIMANJARO and WIGA.
The company had also an agreement with GBD to make the line GBD Block Meerschaum.
After closing, the British companies London Meerschaum and Manx Pipes continued to produce pipes importing meerschaum from Africa.




Anonymous user