Solid plate
Thanks for your input Louis, always appreciated. I could never understand why the coil burners did not catch on in Europe, they first appeared here in the late 1950s, often one coil to accompany solid plates, but by about 1964 solid plates had almost entirely disappeared.
It was really not until the mid 1980s that solid plates re-appeared here when built in units began to be imported in bulk - chiefly Neff, Bosch and Zanussi. There had been a few around before, like the AEG above, but not many. This coincided with the adoption of built under ovens, an arrangement common in Europe but again, not here until mid-1980s.
