AGA | 1939

“L'eau chaude gratuite”: free hot water. In July 1939, the AGA cooker promised to cook, to use six times less fuel and, with a water tank on top, to supply water at 90 degrees for bath, toilet and washing-up. A bath cost about 40 centimes, with coal at 600 francs a tonne.

The AGA was invented in 1922 by the Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize, who had lost his sight in an accident and designed it while at home. The name comes from his company, AB Gasaccumulator.

In France it was made under licence by the Rosières works in Bourges. Note the dream: hot water from the kitchen stove, in a time when many homes had none on tap.

AGA cookers are still made, mostly in Britain.

Text in the ad

L'EAU CHAUDE GRATUITE
La cuisinière “AGA” qui offre déjà tant d'avantages pour la préparation des repas, qui procure de si belles économies de combustible (vous dépenserez 6 fois moins avec “AGA”) vous rendra encore un immense service : elle vous fournira de l'eau bouillante à 90° pour le bain, la toilette, la vaisselle…
Et le supplément de charbon nécessaire est si minime, qu'on peut presque dire qu'“AGA” donne l'eau chaude gratuitement. Un bain revient à 40 centimes environ, avec du charbon à 600 Francs la tonne ; connaissez-vous un système de production d'eau chaude aussi économique ?
Renseignements et démonstrations aux USINES DE ROSIÈRES A BOURGES dans leurs Magasins d'Exposition : PARIS : 2, Av. Victor-Emmanuel III (Rond-Point des Ch. Élysées) · MARSEILLE : 108, Cours Lieutaud · LYON : 101, Boulevard des Belges · TOULOUSE : 2, rue d'Austerlitz · et chez les Concessionnaires “AGA”.
AGA · LA CUISINIÈRE LA PLUS ÉCONOMIQUE DU MONDE

Translation:
FREE HOT WATER
The “AGA” cooker, which already offers so many advantages for preparing meals and brings such fine savings in fuel (you will spend 6 times less with “AGA”), will do you another great service: it will supply boiling water at 90° for the bath, washing, the dishes…
And the extra coal needed is so small that one can almost say “AGA” gives hot water free. A bath costs about 40 centimes, with coal at 600 francs a tonne; do you know any system of producing hot water as economical?
Information and demonstrations at the ROSIÈRES WORKS IN BOURGES, in their showrooms: PARIS: 2 av. Victor-Emmanuel III (Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées) · MARSEILLE: 108 cours Lieutaud · LYON: 101 boulevard des Belges · TOULOUSE: 2 rue d'Austerlitz · and at “AGA” dealers.
AGA · THE MOST ECONOMICAL COOKER IN THE WORLD

Brand

AGA

Year

1939

Decade

1930s

Country

France

Medium

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