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Norge, Crosley

I agree with Hans that the '56 Crosley looks a lot like the Norge he posted above. I believe Crosley got out of the appliance business after '56, so maybe they had Norge make the the ranges for them the last year or so.
 
Western-Holly

Greg, is that range electric or gas? The pic isn't clear enough for me to tell. If electric, I didn't know they ever made any. It looks a great deal like the electric range we used for a short time after moving into the house I now own. It belonged to the people who moved into our old house, which only had space for a 30". My Mom and Gale traded until the cabinets and countertop were modified to accept their wider model. I always remember it having a round oven window, and wondered what kind it was. We only had it for a couple months before getting our Westinghouse back.
 
CROWN STOVE

I might have part of the story on the transition of Crown Stove.
My Grandmother's 1954 Crown stove is still in the family and I was curious as to what happened to the company.
I don't guarantee that this info is absolutely accurate because data on that company is so hard to come by.
However it appears that during their heyday they were based in Cicero,Illinois. They made ranges for many years until sometime in the 1970s (?) the roof collapsed on the factory. They didn't have the ability to recover. I heard that some company bought the machining but who that was I do not know. Oh well, that's all I've got. Crown stoves are still in a lot of homes in Chicagoland attesting to their good quality it seems.
 
Hotpoint slide-out Teflon panels

Silly Hotpoint slide-out panel story.
As everyone knows, my Dad was an engineer for Hotpoint. He was with Home Laundry but Range was nearby.
At any rate, when the Hotpoint slide-out Teflon panels came out the employees ended up with samples. They make great cookie-sheets as they are "L" shaped and flat.
Also for Thanksgiving we made coffee for years on a huge Hotpoint drop-in drip coffeemaker. It's the one that you would drop in the Hotpoint well-cooker. We sat it on top of our Grandmother's Crown range (now in the basement after 1963) and made gobs of coffee. (Our main stove was a Universal Cribben/Sexton gas as our 1920's house had very poor electric feed.)
The coffee didn't come out in gobs but rather it made copious amounts of coffee.
And of course we ended up with lots and lots of rejected trim pieces. I am not joking when I tell you that we made grade-school election campaign buttons out of Silhouette washer and dryer knob trim centers. LOL!
 
Hotpoint Custom-Trend

Oh, and lastly..
If y'all remember a PANK HOTPOINT Custom-Trend countertop range that was for sale about a year ago in Illinois...
It had a drop-down range on the side.
Yeah - I bought it...
Love it. Haven't put it back into service yet. I may have my Crosley fridge painted pink to match. Hmmm.
The model has "RD" in it. I think its a working prototype.
Glad to have it... Thanks gang for the tip...
 
Custom-trend... more

The story on the Custom-Trend was this..
Apparently the lady who owned the house received the Custom-Trend range from the builder in 1961. The builder built the house sometime earlier and outfitted the kitchen a trendy manner including this range in 1961. Indeed when I visited the house, the kitchen was very 1960's chic.
The range was in use from at least 1961 until about a year ago.
General Electric Service fixed it once along the way, about 10 years ago. I have that receipt. Tech installed four new Calrod burners.
Limited Edition range or experiment? Who knows? The truth may be lost to history. It's interesting that the unit worked sooo long. It is clearly built to last...
 

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