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norgeway
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General Electric Oil Furnace!
Here is a picture, from the mid 30s until 1958 when GE discontinued the line for a cheaper design, this was thee oil furnace, this is a boiler, but they made hot air models as well, the whole mechanism was ran by what they called a "master Control" basically a washer timer, these had many fine safety devices such as a flue pressure switch, if for any reason there was a delayed ignition or too much oil entered ,it shut the furnace down instantly, as far as I know, no oil furnace today has such a device, the burner was a low pressure burner, the flame shot down from the top, air was induced from the bottom so the flame floated, my hometown still has a bunch of these in it, but most have been converted to high pressure burners because of scarcity of parts, but for highly efficent oil burning, these were unbeatable, in the days when many oil furnaces were delivering 50 to 70 percent efficency, these were doing 80 to 85 percent, the flue connection comes out at the rear, right down at the floor.And QUIET!!!! They dont make any more noise than a clothes dryer, if that much.
Here is a picture, from the mid 30s until 1958 when GE discontinued the line for a cheaper design, this was thee oil furnace, this is a boiler, but they made hot air models as well, the whole mechanism was ran by what they called a "master Control" basically a washer timer, these had many fine safety devices such as a flue pressure switch, if for any reason there was a delayed ignition or too much oil entered ,it shut the furnace down instantly, as far as I know, no oil furnace today has such a device, the burner was a low pressure burner, the flame shot down from the top, air was induced from the bottom so the flame floated, my hometown still has a bunch of these in it, but most have been converted to high pressure burners because of scarcity of parts, but for highly efficent oil burning, these were unbeatable, in the days when many oil furnaces were delivering 50 to 70 percent efficency, these were doing 80 to 85 percent, the flue connection comes out at the rear, right down at the floor.And QUIET!!!! They dont make any more noise than a clothes dryer, if that much.
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norgeway
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Somehow!
I printed the whole page, look at the picture postcard, that gives you an idea ho small the units were.
I printed the whole page, look at the picture postcard, that gives you an idea ho small the units were.
The neighbors next to us growing up had one of those GE hot water boilers. I thought it was strange that GE had anything to do with a flame as they were all electric I thought. They never seemed to have any problems with it and their house was always warm this time of year. We had a converted coal to oil octupus that my father refused to replace and we froze because all the vents were in the center of rooms. Finally the heat exchanger went (no carbon monoxide detectors then) and my mother threatened him with the black soot out of the vents and he finally replaced it with a Sears Homart and moved the vents properly to the outside walls. We were much more comfortable after that
Norgeway, are these the units that found their way into the "Levitown" type house?
norgeway
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No,,,All Levittown
Houses use York Heat oil fired boilers, York Shipley Company, they also had a Bendix Washer, a Hotpoint stove, and I think a GE refrigerator, Lustron homes all had Williams Gas O Matic, or Williams Oil O Matic furnaces, they were hung from the ceiling of the utility room, Williams Oil O Matic also use a low pressure burner, similar in theory to a GE, but it didnt fire down the center, Williams Co was EUREKA WILLIAMS of Bloomington Ill, and YES, they also built Eureka Vacuum Cleaners!!!!
Houses use York Heat oil fired boilers, York Shipley Company, they also had a Bendix Washer, a Hotpoint stove, and I think a GE refrigerator, Lustron homes all had Williams Gas O Matic, or Williams Oil O Matic furnaces, they were hung from the ceiling of the utility room, Williams Oil O Matic also use a low pressure burner, similar in theory to a GE, but it didnt fire down the center, Williams Co was EUREKA WILLIAMS of Bloomington Ill, and YES, they also built Eureka Vacuum Cleaners!!!!
norgeway
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Here is another
GE ad, showing the conversion burner, and a few furnaces, they were in it in a big way, and these were very expensive units.
GE ad, showing the conversion burner, and a few furnaces, they were in it in a big way, and these were very expensive units.
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norgeway
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WATERBURY!
These were one of the best oil furnaces ever, my hometown is full of them, talk about quality, the burner is CAST IRON!, they will absolutely run forever.
These were one of the best oil furnaces ever, my hometown is full of them, talk about quality, the burner is CAST IRON!, they will absolutely run forever.
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polkanut
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My parent's house had a Williams oil furnace that lasted until March, 1980. They replaced it with a Milwaukee Stove Co. natural gas furnace that is still going strong nearly 34 years later.
norgeway
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Milwaukee
That was another good one, Milwaukee Thermoflow, Metzger Engeneering Co.
That was another good one, Milwaukee Thermoflow, Metzger Engeneering Co.
My grandma's house had a Norge oil furnace, looked like the one in the ad as I recall, but I never saw her using it. Guess oil got too expensive. She stayed pretty much in her kitchen/dining area and used a potbellied coal stove supplemented by an electric heater.
norgeway
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I would like to FIND!
A Norge oil furnace, I would clean it up, install new gaskets and put it right in my basement!
A Norge oil furnace, I would clean it up, install new gaskets and put it right in my basement!
polkanut
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That's it, Milwaukee Thermoflo. Not Milwaukee Stove Co. I remember it was installed by Brummond Heating & Cooling now long out of business.
polkanut
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That's it, Milwaukee Thermoflo. Not Milwaukee Stove Co. I remember it was installed by Brummond Heating & Cooling now long out of business.
found this. has some cool videos. if you poke around you can find some rather interesting explosions!
This is an overly cool site (pun intended). Our Canadian friends were no slackers when it came to developing refrigeration. Great pictures and I want a Norge Rollator!
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