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Post by Chuckie on Jan 23, 2013 11:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by pooka on Jan 23, 2013 16:55:24 GMT -5
Chuckie, that's the image I've seen in some of the old literature & dated 1910. In that old article from 2003 in the Indianapolis Monthly magazine, it says, "After perfecting his first model, he started making and selling ranges in the same factory where he made incubators, until the operation got so big it needed it's own factory." It's my understanding that he then moved to the old Clark Motor Car Company factory in 1912, when it was bought out after coming out of bankruptcy & moved to Piqua, Ohio. That's where all stoves were made until the Flato brothers bought them out in 1950. They built a new factory in Oxford, Mississippi some time after that, where they were made until they ceased production in the 80's. It is strange to think of a kitchen range that's made partly out of wood. And that top, from my understanding, is a piece of pressed asbestos board. Some of their later models from the teens used the same asbestos board under the rear burners like the one in the old 1912 ad I've got.
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