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I've recently found myself in possession of an extremely old Hobart meat slicer - which spent the last 40 years in the basement of a farm-house, after being purchased from a country store that went out of business in the 70's.
This particular dinosaur is a Hobart model 11-A, manufactured in 1936, in pretty astonishingly good shape, and the very first electric meat slicer Hobart ever made.
Interestingly enough, Hobart decided not to print a model number on the ID plate for this thing. I guess this little oversight was due to the fact that there were no other electric slicers at the time they made it, so, why print a model, right? They clearly weren't considering the impact of that little oversight would have while trying to ID the device 80 years later. It took weeks of digging around to figure out what this was - when I eventually found a patent filing with a diagram that clued me in. With the model, I found a parts diagram, and the case was closed.
If you're into old equipment (which still does an amazing job of slicing brisket, deli-meats, and salamis), hopefully you'll enjoy these pictures. I was unable to find any pictures of this piece of history, so as far as I know, these are the first pictures posted online.
This particular dinosaur is a Hobart model 11-A, manufactured in 1936, in pretty astonishingly good shape, and the very first electric meat slicer Hobart ever made.
Interestingly enough, Hobart decided not to print a model number on the ID plate for this thing. I guess this little oversight was due to the fact that there were no other electric slicers at the time they made it, so, why print a model, right? They clearly weren't considering the impact of that little oversight would have while trying to ID the device 80 years later. It took weeks of digging around to figure out what this was - when I eventually found a patent filing with a diagram that clued me in. With the model, I found a parts diagram, and the case was closed.
If you're into old equipment (which still does an amazing job of slicing brisket, deli-meats, and salamis), hopefully you'll enjoy these pictures. I was unable to find any pictures of this piece of history, so as far as I know, these are the first pictures posted online.