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Great Stove

It looks pre WWII but I would say very late 30's early 40's.
The burner controls are on the front - where are the oven controls?
Is that a deep well cooker?
The circles are great - but they look like they were put on an older body to jazz it up.
Is someone going to rescue it?
 
Frigidaire a Stove Brand?

I cant beleive how stupid brand marketing was back then. Of course there were Hotpoint refrigerators and Coldspot ranges,a friend of mine remembers a Hotpoint water cooler in NY. Frigidare as a stove brand is like having an alsakan stoke your fireplace with ice. How stupid.
 
Frigidaire introduced its line of electric ranges in 1937. Before 37, they made only refrigerators and electric water heaters. By 1941, as Greg dated it, this range featured a great improvement. Frigidaire had replaced the almost solid elements with the tubular elements and 5 heat switches. A long time ago on American Movie Classics, I half watched a movie where a young couple were in a small home with this stove in the kitchen. In looking through my files, I found two interesting Frigidaire ranges, the BC-5 and BC-6 offered starting in October 1939. They were combination ranges. Model BC-5 designed for use with wood, soft coal and other solid fuels. BC-6 used Anthacite only (Hello Phoebe Snow). Water backs and coils available on both models. These two devices enabled houses with coal or wood stoves to have a central source of hot water before gas, oil and electric storage tank water heaters were widely used. The cooktop had (2) 8 inch elements at 2000 and 1200 watts and (2) 6 inch elements at 1200 watts. Over the firebox, there was a cast iron plate with two "eyes." The stove had an all porcelain oven with a 2000 watt bake element and a 2700 watt broil element. Both ranges were 38 inches wide, 36 inches high and 32 inches deep.

I saw in my 1941 files that Westinghouse introduced the Laundromat that year. I had forgotten that it was available in 1941. Blackstone was not the only automatic going up against the Bendix Automatic Home Laundry before the war.
 
Frigidaire's contribution to the range market included the first one-piece porcelain enamel cabinet (like their refrigerators) and the 30" size range. The engineer who developed the Frigidaire range line had come from Edison General Electric Appliance Co (Hotpoint) where he spent his entire careet working with electrical cooking. With GM's finances and no design restrictions, this fellow interviewed over 7500 women and 100's of dealers to find out what they wanted in an electric range before introducing their first range in 1937. SteveD
 
Very interesting Steve!

Another first for this range was the pre-heating switch on the oven, if you turned the temperature control all the way to broil, then back to the desired baking temperature, the oven would use both elements to pre-heat and then switch back to the lower, baking element to maintain baking temp.
 

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