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Vintage M.Ward flat surface range - $100 (Bear, DE) |
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Post# 851875   11/15/2015 at 23:16 (3,076 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 851888 , Reply# 1   11/16/2015 at 00:08 (3,076 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Tappan built, I believe.
Looks never used. All other (probable) strikes against them, I always thought these were very distinguished looking.
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Post# 851902 , Reply# 2   11/16/2015 at 02:08 (3,076 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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It has the same printed motif as my Gurney cooktop. While Gurney used to be a part of Tappan (during the 1960s, Tappan appliances were known here as "Tappan Gurney" this cooktop is from later years when Bélanger (another manufacturer from Québec) got that name. I guess that when WCI acquired Tappan, they didn't bother getting the Gurney name which went to Bélanger.
The brand associations with Tappan in Canada changed a few times. In the 1950's, there were some Inglis Tappan ranges, later it was Tappan Gurney (at the time Tappan was associated with Inglis, Gurney was associated with Northern Electric before they sold Leonard ranges). Later Tappan became a part of WCI but Gurney was now a part of Bélanger. At that point, Gurney even shared it's emblem with Bélanger, a kind of stylized "B".
The pictures show my Gurney cooktop, the emblem from it, the emblem from a friend's Bélanger Ceravit range, his range (again with the same printed motif on the ceramic as the Wards above), the red glow from what I assume is the PPG "Hercuvit" glass. I think my Frigidaire range uses the same kind of ceramic glass but the motif that's printed on it is different and the the burners don't have those 3 darker spots shaped like a burner support like those from the Bélanger range. The other pictures show some Inglis Tappan and Tappan Gurney appliances from the 1950s and 1960s. |