Classic 1957 40 inch Westinghouse Custom Imperial Double Oven Range - $600

[chachp]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">This stove looks really clean.  Ad Reads (Many more pics on the listing): </span>

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Classic 1957 40 inch Westinghouse Custom Imperial Double Oven Range. Perfect working condition. All burners and both ovens work perfectly. Cook a turkey in the large oven and two pies or casseroles in the small oven, all while you're making delicious dishes on the stovetop! Nice and clean. Comes with original instruction book, roasting guard attachment and even spare fuses. A sweet vintage item that would make a beautiful centerpiece for any style kitchen. $600 obo. I love this stove, but I'm ready to go back to cooking with a gas cooktop. Please text or email any questions and I will respond ASAP. No calls please. Thanks.</span>

http://littlerock.craigslist.org/app/4792986833.html

 

[moparwash]

post 1960

This has the current W logo introduced corporate-wide in 1960...though it took a few years to show on all appliances...my 1961 dryer shows the previous underlined W

 

[norgeway]

Probably 60 -62

57 had that angular futuristic back splash....too high, but if I ever find one of these that is reasonable, it will be in my kitchen!

 

[norgeway]

I wonder????

Why more of these don't turn up, all I see is a bunch of GEs....Ok, but I want a WESTINGHOUSE!!!Don't get me wrong, I like my Hotpoint, but I like the odd and different!

 

[danemodsandy]

Hans:

I had a 40-inch Westy for a number of years, and I'm here to tell you: Be careful what you wish for.

It was an okay range, but just okay. Baking capability was fair once you learned the oven's quirk, which consisted of a big cool spot where the window was.

Of greater concern was the range's electrical quality - it loved to burn out burner control switches, and some other electrical repairs had to be done; terminals on wires kept having to be replaced due their burning up.

The whole thing had a much tinnier, flimsier feel than a GE. It wasn't terrible, but it sure as Hell wasn't great.

 

[norgeway]

Hmmmm

I always thought Frigidaire and Westinghouse were better built and better insulated than the GE/Hotpoint stuff.....

 

[tomturbomatic]

Westinghouse ovens were generally better insulated, but the wiring and infinite switches were, historically, more of a problem. The fixed heat switches were more reliable.

 

[danemodsandy]

Insulation:

I don't have a problem with the insulation in GEs, but then again, I insist on having P*7 self-cleaning, which came with heavier insulation for a long time. P*7 ranges were so effectively insulated that Consumer Reports used to say that the $100 extra cost of the self-cleaning feature could be recouped over the life of the range, due to reduced operating expense when baking.

My current J 370 has a phenomenally even and accurate oven.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I was talking about GEs that were contemporaries of the Westinghouse in the ad. Self cleaners were a whole different animal. GE broilers had the metal broiler reflector, as did Frigidaire, that gave great broiling results, but I was told that another reason for it was that it meant that GE could use thinner insulation between the oven and range top in the pre-self cleaning ranges. Thanks to the support for the broiler element in my GE self cleaner, I was able to put the metal broiler reflector above its broiler element by resting the rear of it on the ledge of the broiler support bracket that comes forward from the back of the oven which greatly improved the broiling. I had to set a short screw in the front track of the horizontal broiler support closer to the front of the oven to hold the front of the reflector level. Non-self cleaning WH ranges of the generation in the ad did not have a reflector and did not get great broiling ratings by CU, but I have only had a WH self cleaner in the condo which had the reflector/catalytic smoke eliminator above the broiler and it worked well. My other WH range still had an open coil broiler which had a reflector in which the coils were mounted and it broiled very well.