Manufacturer MCCLARY'S

McClary's Electric Range

Date1920s

DimensionsOverall: 131.5 × 112.4 × 61.8 cm

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Eleanor McLennan, 1989

Object number1989.026.001

Label TextMcClary’s marketed this 1920s range as “the perfect instrument for utilizing Nature’s great gift” of electricity. In the 1920s, the McClary Manufacturing Company produced stoves that used different sources of power. Some were wood burners, others oil-fueled, and still others, like this one, electric. While London households had access to the hydroelectric grid from 1910, many rural households were unconnected. They continued to use wood or oil, fuel they could source locally, and which could be transported by rail.

NameStove

CopyrightPhoto Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid