The range has 4 burners in a line. The electric version only had one 8 inch element so I don't know if this stove had only one 12,000 BTU and three 6,000 BTU burners. In general the electric versions did not throw as much waste heat. They ran into a problem with the broilers when they were placed at the top of the gas oven cavity. So much oxygen was consumed by the oven burner that the pilot for the broiler would not stay lighted. It meant expensive retrofitting with an electric igniter in models already in use. Later models of the 40" gas models had the smaller section devoted to broiling. If you saw many Sears catalogs in the late 60s, the gas ranges of this style made by Roper had a roll-out broiler under the the oven. Yes, all of the beauty of the design was gone. I saw some Welbuilt ranges with the large oven underneath and the smaller one on top and the top oven had a burner about 2/3s of the way down in the oven so that you could broil under the burner and bake above it. Some of the cheapest SunRay electric ranges had an oven just like the gas model with a broiler element where the gas oven burner would be, a roll-out broiler and the openings around the bottom of the oven to allow the heat to rise around the edges as well as through the oven floor. With the heat focused down into the broiler compartment, it's a wonder it did not set floors on fire. It must have been sealed tighter and insulated better than the gas ovens. Wards had a few 36 inch gas stoves with a small electric oven beside the main oven in what is usually storage space. It had a heating element at just about the place where the gas oven had the divide between oven and broiler compartments. The door to it was side-swing and it allowed broiling below and baking above. It had to be on it's own 15 amp 115 volt circuit. Wards at one time had a gas dryer that used an electric element to provide heat for the delicate setting, again requiring its own 15 amp 115 volt circuit.
I think the ventilation problems were given over to that big pullout vent over the stove. It should have had a large blower mounted outside the house to cut down on noise. It is such a shame to think of how well a plain 40" range would have fit into that kitchen. Maybe DD got the Gas Assn. to replace that monstrosity with a regular stove after the pictures were taken; and maybe the dw with something that cleaned, not that she probably had to use either.
