Chambers Stove - Huge!

[vacerator]

chill, Fox Chapel;

Oh yeah Joe! Derek, and it's really lit up nice for the holidays! Isn't that John Kerry's part of town?
There is a neighborhood in Tel Aviv where some poeple form Squirrel Hill live.
When my parents were first married, they lived across the street from Dr. Jonas Salk's laboratory at Pitt. My mom was a nurse at Mercy, or Eye and Ear hospital then.

 

[58limited]

That...

is a rare one indeed. I've only seen one other that had the upper cabinets. The center cabinet has a low heat burner for keeping food warm. It is basically the same model as mine but mine does not have the upper cabinets, only a shelf. Mine weighs right at 1000 lbs.

 

[dermacie]

Mike

Theresa Heinz Kerry lives in a very guarded gated home covered by trees on Dorseville Road in Fox Chapel. I live within a mile mile from there but not in Fox Chapel.

 

[vacerator]

Very nice area

as well Derek! So you live not very far from Jerry "Moparwash". I lived in Plum until age 6. I still have a cousin in Regency park.

 

[dermacie]

I'm

Not sure don't really know many people on here.

 

[vacerator]

He is

across the river in Verona, but in Pittsburgh, a mile can mean the next burrough.
Up here, our big suburbs are six mile squares. Easier to navigate, because most roads run east-west, north-south. I guess that's why They did the green belt, yellow belt, orange belt road signs there. Three different valleys are overwhelming to most.
When my uncle moved up here, he couldn't believe how spread out it is. It's also flat, except on the far northern suburbs. Then when I went to California, that made here seem compact.

 

[dermacie]

Pittsburgh

It is not easy to navigate around even natives get lost.

 

[davey7]

Thanks for posting the link - that is a gorgeous house!

 

[Ultramatic]

"Another example of going off topic! That's enough..

 

 

I thought you were going "silent" Greg ?

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?66925

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

Does anyone know the approximate year of manufacture for the Chambers range?

 

[rp2813]

Louie, Greg's "going silent" post was made three days after his post above and the resulting replies it drew.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

I stand corrected. My apologies Greg. Have a nice rest.

 

[mikael3]

I love it when things go off topic.  The links between one idea and the next are often fascinating.

 

But going back on topic for a while, I’ll add that the Chambers in the picture is a model 7961, one of four models in the ‘79’ or ‘Imperial’ line.  These were intended for “large houses with much entertaining” or “private estates”, as the advertising literature put it. 

 

I’ve never, ever seen upper shelves like the ones on that unit above.  FABULOUS!!

 

One thing about these that you can see in the second picture above is that they vent like an old coal stove, through a stovepipe in the back.  Also, the griddle/broiler apparatus is made of cast iron, not aluminum like the later ones.  Because of the weight, the lever to lift it is on the left side of the unit, not in the front.  None of that changed till the later more familiar models came out.  The 79s are from the 1930s, I think. 

 

The 7960 is the most common of these, and it’s smaller than the one above. But insanely enough, there was a model bigger than the 7961.  It’s the 7982, and it’s a monster.  I’ve attached a couple of pictures I saved at some point.  I’ve also attached an advertisement for the 7961.

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[a440]

John,

 

Great pictures you posted.

 

About the flue that you mentioned in the first pictures I posted, was this just for the combustion gases of the ovens?  I guess when you had this baby running on all cylinders, it really put out the fumes.

 

 

 

[2011hoovermatic]

@a440 do I have your permission to save your pictures of the chambers stove? I ask per forum rules.
Thank you
2011hoovermatic

 

[mikael3]

All I know about venting the old Chambers units is what I’ve read, and some information I got from Rich Allen of Antique Vintage Appliances in Tucson, Arizona.  I was considering getting a 7961, but they are expensive from a restoration shop.

 

[a440]

Damien,

 

Save all you want.  Those are not my pictures....I lifted them from the original listing of the house for sale.

 

Brent

 

[58limited]

From what I have found, the Imperials were made from the mid to late 1930s, possibly into the early 1940s.

As big as that Imperial that Mikeal3 posted is, they made one even bigger - in the 1920s I think. On the Chambers Forum we call it the Ultimate Behemoth (because another model that was big, but not as big, was dubbed the Behemoth).

So far, no one that I know of has seen an example if this model, I don't if any still exist.

 

[58limited]

Here is part of a flier for the Imperial line - it shows the model that I have, basically the same as the OP's model except for the overhead cabinets.

 

[twintubdexter]

Are the "Thermodomes" the cooking pots? I wonder how many of those survived? Fancy stuff!