70s Tricity Microwave score :-)

[seamusuk]

Hey Guys
Just picked this up. Although badged as Tricity the rating plate states Made in USA. Im thinking Tappan maybe?

 

[seamusuk]

No turntable here....

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[seamusuk]

2 powers..

On and off lol...

 

[westie2]

This is sure a nice older MW.  You got a good one and so clean looking.  Have you cooked/warmed thing in it and how does it do?

 

[gansky1]

This looks very similar to the Tappan microwaves in the U.S. It is very clean for the age! Do you know how many watts it has?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Tappan - It is

Sold those through the independents in the 1980`s, it has the stirrer paddle under the turntable if I remember rightly to distribute the microwaves evenly!!

 

[servisslimline]

moffatt

wow thats like the moffat microwave ive got, they look like they were made by the same people? great catch

 

[seamusuk]

Wattage??

Hey Greg
Im guessing it was originally 650w ish but has possibly dropped with age as the mug of water I tried it with was only warm after approx 90 secs. Until the way wattages are measured was changed over here in about 1990 it was unusual for the output to be stated on the oven.
Seamus

 

[petek]

Nice finds there. I could be way off base but I have it in my mind that the early Tappan microwaves (mid to late 70's) were actually rebadged Littons however that could have changed later on. Just that I remember perhaps 15 years ago a guy at work brought in his old Tappan which he said he'd bought in the 70's and I thought it looked much like our old Litton, could be wrong though.

The second mw I bought new around 1976 was a Litton here in Canada however after a few years they were being sold as Litton-Moffat

 

[franksdad]

Very nice!

This looks very much like the Tappan microwave my mother-in-law gave my wife and me back when we first got together in 1989.  Congratulations on a great find!

 

[seamusuk]

The Moffat...

Hey Phil
Yours is older than you think . The Science Museum has one dated 1975 !!

 

[davey7]

I don't recall seeing this in the Leadbetter's kitchen - Margo probably hid it (for cooking snobbery and not to let Jerry know she'd purchased it). I like the Tricty logos, very clean and crisp.

 

[48bencix]

I like the knob

I have always liked the knob for time selection on a microwave. The only reason I got a new one recently was because the new ones seem to do pop corn better.

Martin

 

[ovrphil]

Nice unit nice catch - never saw a TriCity mw in my CL searches...does it have a temp control or just a timer?

 

[seamusuk]

Tricity...

Hi Phil

Tricity is a UK brand- at this time it was part of Thorn Electrical Industries so you wont find one over there . Its a very basic 1 power on off jobbie.

Seamus

 

[danemodsandy]

Definitely Tappan

I had this same microwave in the U.S.-spec, Tappan-badged version. Very reliable and I had it well over fifteen years. The reason I got rid of it was that the outer housing of the U.S. version was wrapped in Ye Olde Fayke Woode Graine vinyl, as most American appliances and tellies were at the time it was produced. By the '90s, it had become a stylistic embarrassment.

 

[ovrphil]

danenmodsandy -lol! Faux wood grain sure got "a lot of press". (Tappan had some nice designs)

SeamusUK: I was asleep at the computer, completely missed reading your UK location - hey, anyways, that has nice lines for basic jobbie, and that speaks volumes..or watts.

 

[rolls_rapide]

The old appliances were solidly built and lasted decades. With today's flimsy rubbish, a good sneeze will see them off.

The Tricity logo must have been the same on my parents' 1970 built in oven (with rotisserie), and the hob unit.

For your information (especially US readers), "Tricity" is pronounced as in "electricity" i.e. "triss-i-ty". Not "Try-city".

 

[bellingmad]

Great looking!

Great looking Microwave there... I wish that Tricity would do a re launch of all these classics... they were such great designs!!