Weber Bros Metal Works Ads From 1954.....

[harris92]

@Troy @Craig

Found in in an outdoor cooking pamphlet.   


August 1954...  NICE.



The Garden Light....  Mentions Weber Bros Metal Works & Standard Lamp and Novelty Company.  They probably worked in conjunction to make these.



Old kettle (BK-500) with no axle and electric spit

[jkolantern]

Cool!  Love the old paperwork and ads.

[Jeff]

Very nice. That one grill looks like ernie's grill!

[harris92]

This is the model variation prior to Ernie's grill.  No wheel axle on the 1954 model.

[ClubChapin]

I want that Roti.  Anyone have one?

[Craig]

This is the model variation prior to Ernie's grill.  No wheel axle on the 1954 model.

He's right. There's an 1994 issue of Webers newsletter "The Grill Out Times" that features this kettle with no axle. One of the legs had loosened over the years and the wheel was turned inward. It was deemed "the oldest" known Weber that was still "out there". I've been hoping that whomever owns it someday finds out about us and shares it on here. I need to find the link to that page. Incidentally it also shows a '56 modern dome lid with a giant homemade twist disc ash pan the original owner and his son had made together sometime in the 60s or 70s. It was pretty neat!

[Craig]

Incidentally they talk about how Weber didnt make the "axle-less" kettles for vary long for the stability reason mentioned above.

[harris92]

@Craig

[Craig]

@Craig

That's the one! I wonder where that one is today? Hopefully not forgotten and in a landfill somewhere...

[Matt_T]

This is really cool - thanks for sharing

[einrej]

[Craig]

I always love seeing the flattie lid 22 einrej! Definitely hope to find one some day. I wonder if pizzas would do well on these since the topping would be closer to the roof of the lid? Would eliminate having to use a raised grate maybe? Cheese tends to get the nice leopard spotting when close to the lid.

[Idahawk]

 Any chance those are some sort of stem caster / wheel assembly on the 1954s pictured ? It's funny both the image and the real photo show the wheels in strange positions .


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[charred]

oh my!!!!!!!!!!

[Craig]

Any chance those are some sort of stem caster / wheel assembly on the 1954s pictured ? It's funny both the image and the real photo show the wheels in strange positions .


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From what I read about these, it was just an early wheeled production model with the legs held in with thumbscrews like we are familiar with. Besides the lack of an axle, the rear legs aren't even flanged like on Ernie's grill. They mentioned in that article that Weber knew a very short time into that design that a support axle would be needed to prevent wheel legs from turning in or outward.