40 Inch GE P7 Range - Dubuque, IA

[robinsondm]

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judyhicks,

 

Can you tell us the model number of your range? It may be on a metal plaque located on the vertical divider between the two storage drawers -- at least that's where it is on my '66 range.

 

If you can tell us the model number, we can check to make sure you got the right heating element. Thanks,

 

Dean

 

[danemodsandy]

Ben:

Do you have any idea what year the range in Eau Claire is?

The reason I ask is that it's so similar to the 1966, yet it has a window in the large oven, which the '66 doesn't have. The handle escutcheons are different, as well.

I'm thinking this could be the '67 TOL 40-incher. If I'm not mistaken, '67 was the year that wall ovens got windows; the '66 P*7s didn't have them, I believe. [this post was last edited: 1/14/2014-18:40]

 

[danemodsandy]

P.S. for Dean:

You mentioned older 40-inchers as having two ovens of equal width.

That's true, but they were usually not of equal capacity - the left oven (underneath the burners) was usually not as tall as the right one, owing to the need for a drip box beneath the burners.

Some brands also put the fuses in this location.

 

[circlew]

Since the older 39"-40" ranges usually had a deep-well cooker, the oven beneath had to be shorter to accomodate it. GE discontinued the deep-well when they came out with the unequal width ovens in '53. Hotpoint kept them for several more years.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Pretty much GE was the best-made range in the 40"-model design... (Up until they were no longer "True GE-made"...)

The other brands kind'a became a laughing stock, before wide ranges were no longer common and today the idea of this sort of range is really on the wane...

But some exist & no surprise the trend has gone from open coils to the smooth top & the sealed-burner gas models only differ in how they cook your food...

-- Dave