1955 Norge 41 inch stove

[westingman123]

What a beauty!!

I'm glad she found a good home. My Westinghouse Commodore is a 40". You'll love the space. As for oven temps, both of my ovens are spot-on and they hold temperature better than the new GE range I had before I found this one. Happy cooking!

 

[douglasdc6]

I love the placement of the fluorescent light.

That bulb looks like a Classic Westinghouse or sylvania F30T12

 

[tomturbomatic]

Congratulations on your super find and having a friend to help schlep it home. Does it have open coil broiler elements? They give very intense heat quickly. I am happy for you. I never saw Norge ranges with this much style. It must have been sneaked into production by some mad designer like at Amana when they produced the RRL-10A with the all plastic door face. The CEO thundered and roared there would be no more, but sales took off and the old style door was to become history.

 

[tlee618]

Congratultions Hans that is one beautiful range!! Boy you are going to be doing some cooking now!!!!!!!!!

 

[appnut]

Wow Hans!! I'm real excited for ya!! Another dream come true!!! The knobs are reminiscent of filterFlo's DispensoMat washer. Wanna see photos of the front. The bear wants to know, when's the food-in???

 

[gansky1]

Hans, that is just too fabulous for words - the light is awesome. It sure is a pity Norge lost this sense of style, but they all seemed to sooner or later. What a beautiful piece of history, congrats!

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Hans

How did you know that model even existed? It is beautiful,
and certainly unique! Congrats on your "new" addition!

 

[estatesale_gary]

Here's a ad for your stove

Not a great ad but does mention the neat Adjust A Light feature.

http://books.google.com/books?id=qV...as_pt=MAGAZINES#v=onepage&q=1955 norge&f=true

 

[rp2813]

This should serve

. . . as a remider to us all that we are currently going through a period where incredible things are becoming available as a result of so many parents of boomers closing up shop as they move to smaller homes, are institutionalized or passing on. The window will be closing at some point. For those who are able, now is the time to be snapping up whatever you have room for.

That wouldn't include me, but I know we have members who have the ability to store some extra items or find homes for those they can't. We'll never see this type of opportunity again. It's everyone's responsibility to help save this stuff. It's the motherlode and at some point in the not too distant future it's going to be depleted.

What a shame it would have been if this beautiful and likely very rare Norge had gone to the crusher. For every item like this that's saved, how many might we be losing?

Ralph

 

[norgeway]

N O R G E

I don't know why but I have always been fascinated by the odd or unusual,Maytag GE Hotpoint Electrolux were all so common when I was growing up, I was never too enthused about them, but let me see Norge,Admiral Westinghouse Apex Frigidaire, then I got excited,thanks so much everyone for the nice comments, thanks so much estatesalegary for the ad info, I think advertising was Norges downfall, they never did the beutiful full page ads like Hotpoint Frigidaire or Westinghouse, I also have a 47 Norge range which I used daily for several years, and I still think it bakes better than any thing I have ever used ,I hope this 55 model bakes as well, Ill let you know and try to post more pix.

 

[charbee]

My, what a face that ol' gal's got...that's got to be one of the most unique stove's I've ever seen...kudos and congrats!

 

[norgeway]

More info...

The flourescent light is a Sylvania bulb, I believe it is original, It needs a light switch, which ill have to figure out because it has 4 wires instead of 2, the small oven bakes perfectly and I plan to test the big one this weekend,the only thing I am not thrilled with is the so called Meal-Sentry thermostatic unit,I had a Hotpoint with this and I changed it to a regular infinite heat switch, which is what ill probably do with this,as with most of them it either burn up everything or dont cook at all, but that is easily fixed, the ovens have a regular calrod type element for the bottom and a open coil broiler, also like older Westinghouses, the upper unit has a smaller coil that runs around the outside edge of the broiler assembly and heats with the lower unit to provide balanced heat, also the left front unit is a speed heat which works great, I had forgotten just how good these worked.

 

[norgeway]

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Does anyone have a instruction manual, or even better a service manual,I sure would like to find one, Thanks.

 

[qsd-dan]

"It's everyone's responsibility to help save this stuff. It's the motherlode and at some point in the not too distant future it's going to be depleted.

For every item like this that's saved, how many might we be losing?"

Beautifully stated, Ralph. One day in the very near future, these treasures WILL be gone forever.

Congrats on stove, Hans! It's a gorgeous timepiece made during the best years of this country and will last a lifetime.