I bought my first Wood Dale several years ago from a retired fellow by the name of Don. Don was an accountant and one of his clients in the 1950s and early 1960s was Weber Brothers Metal Works. Don spent quite a bit of time at the facility.
Don told me in the early years of kettle producing there was a lot of experimenting (porcelain coated legs, ash pans, utility pans, triangles, unique custom lids and bowls, multi color combos to the "splatter grills"). At the time this info was passed to me, many people discounted it as a "foggy memory". However, over the past few years everything he told me has been proven true.
You mentioned you only bought a lid and a bowl. I do know that Weber made a very limited number of "splatter grill" Travelers. I think its at least a 75% chance this was originally THE ELUSIVE CUSTOM
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Topic: Orange and Black Speckled Weber Bros 18 (pic heavy) (Read 14782 times)