What a 30+ year old Microwave looks like.....

[seamusuk]

Hey Guys

This belongs to my best mates dad, it currently lives in his shop kitchen/staffroom. It was brought in 1975 and was made in the US. Moffat was a brandname of Thorn Domestic Appliances- any ideas who actually made this??

Seamus

 

[Cybrvanr]

Neat looking oven! The control panel looks very much like what would be found on an Amana Radar Range from the same era. I imagine the "guts" are all Amana, but it looks like the actual body of it was made either by themselves, or by another manufacturer. Amanas Radar Ranges have doors that swing down, and have an exhaust vent from the food compartment just above the control panel.

 

[steved]

It looks like Tappan made it

It looks like the Tappan microwaves of the 70's... Tappan was the other manufacurer of Micros that were labeled by many others. I should check my Tappan brochures ...
Amana put their name on Frigidaire and Westinghouse units that were carbon copies of the Amana. I think they were the first maker of home micros in the 50"s.... somewhere in my collection of Builders magazines for the 50's I think there is an article.......

 

[rolltideroll]

Yeah I remember my Dad going out and buying Mom an Amana RadarRange. I want to say this was around 1980 and it costs around $550.00. I may be wrong but it was so cool. I remember Dad putting little flourescent light bulbs into the oven and turning it on full power and watching the bulbs magically light inside the oven. Anyone ever done this lil' physics trick?

 

[rolltideroll]

I think me and my baby brother placed just about everything in that poor microwave just to "see what would happen." Ya my dad is a wild one when it comes to electricity. He once made a homemade burgalar alarm type device that looked like something out of a Frankenstien movie and put it at his shop door so when someone walked between two coils they would become part of the circuit. It was something like a Tesla coil if you were to ask me. Later he was making vibrating coils for our cars when we were teenagers that would make our tailpipes on the old Buicks spew out flames till we were ticketed and Dad had to answer to the judge about this shenanigan. He is a wild one still at 70 yrs of age.

 

[rolltideroll]

Oh and yeah he has one of those fire spitter coils on his 1952 Dodge truck.

 

[jamiel]

This is a Tappan which ws the first seller of a home oven in the 50s (Raytheon/Amana was the first seller of a portable home oven in 1968 timeframe)...but Tappan made a built-in in the 50s. My first one was a Tappan bought in 1985 and it was a very good one which could cook bacon perfectly (I've never had one since that did as well).

 

[danemodsandy]

Definitely a Tappan; I had that same microwave as my first unit ever.

 

[exploder3211]

Nifty Microwave

 

[jasonl]

TAPPAN!

That was our first micro in 1984. It had a browning element and a spinning fan thingy in the top. Had a nice solenoid click when started as well.

 

[laundromat]

Absolutely,it's a Tappan.I bought one in 1977 and gave it to my Dad for Xmas.These were also branded for Monkey Wards under the Signature brand.The browning element was a great idea and preceded convection.

 

[petek]

Very interestink...Moffat is/was a Canadian appliance company and the script on that mw looks much the same. In the early 80's they sold their mw's in Canada as "Litton Moffat" The company later amalagmated with GE Canada as Camco

 

[danemodsandy]

Just noticed something else interesting- that's the Thorn logo next to where it says "Microwave Oven".

 

[rinso]

My first Mikey was a huge Panasonic I purchased back in '75 or '76. We tended to buy microwaves large enough to roast turkeys in until we found out that roasting wasn't their forte'.

 

[rp2813]

Yes, I agree this is Tappan. My mom is still using her Wards Signature version of this same oven.