I believe that would be a blow torch (handheld). It's odd. They call a flashlight a "torch" even when you take one scuba diving.
Thaks, I figured it must be a propane torch. Gotta love those old pressurized gasoline blowtorches, though - first cousin to the military flamethrower.
My cousin and I spent a *long* summer back in the '70s, using two of those old contraptions to soften the paint on our grandmother's house. Heat, scrape, heat, scrape, ad infinitum. Amazingly, neither of us wound up in the hospital.
We did discover, though, that the things could produce a three-foot-long flame, for a short period of time. :-)