That Tappan oven reminds me of the stove my family had when I was a young child.

We had a Simpson freestanding stove that was badged "Simpson by Tappan" or "Tappan by Simpson", I can't remember which way round it was. Tappan wasn't a brand in Australia, it was obviously Simpson had a licensing agreement with Tappan in the US to use designs and/or components. The handles on the wall oven above were identical to the handles on our Simpson, with the Tappan lettering on the black upper handle.

My grandmother bought two of these stoves, the fancy model with a clock was her gift for my mother, she bought a simpler, more basic one for herself. The stoves had a glass panel for the "dashboard" with very tall slender knobs for each dial, a fine red pointer behind the glass for each knob, and only three settings for each top element - High, Medium and Low. Like most Australian stoves of the era, there was a separate griller (US term is broiler) above the oven and a storage drawer underneath. It also had a power outlet on the splashback, with silver toggle switch for the oven light. The stoves were white enamel finish and 54 cm (21 inches) wide, which is "normal" size in Australia.

IIRC (it was a looong time ago..) there were only two round coil elements on the top, plus the two rectangular griller elements were visible at the top, you could remove the aluminium covers and cook on them as extra surface elements, or place the reflective covers on to use the griller below. If there was a boilover, the mess would fall through to the griller tray underneath.

Our home didn't have a power outlet in the bathroom, so Mum would sometimes use a hair dryer in the kitchen. One day I came home from school and Mum had been using the hair dryer plugged in to the power outlet on the Simpson stove, but the nearest element was still hot from previous cooking and the plastic insulation on the hair dryer cord had started to melt. Mum didn't notice and when she went to remove the dryer plug, she got an electric shock. I ran to the fuse board and disconnected the stove so we could unplug the hair dryer. The stove was replaced soon after with a crappy Westinghouse. Power outlets are required to have a switch in Australia but this stove didn't have a switched outlet - probably a legacy of its American Tappan roots. It would have been a 60 or 61 model, this may have pre-dated the requirement for switched outlets.

And more on topic - wall ovens with a griller underneath are very common in Australia. We tend to have two styles of built in oven: a "wall oven" is taller, mounted higher, and generally has a griller underneath; and an "underbench" oven that fits below the counter and is just a single oven cavity, European brands are popular.

Having just typed that and looking online for images, I see Westinghouse also have some underbench ovens with a separate griller above the oven...

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