Metters Chef Copper Boiler

[GGV8Cruza]

Cleaned out a corner of the garden the other day and came across this old cast iron number. Maybe I can tourn it into a fire place worthy of camp oven cooking. Anyone know much about them, have had a quick search and cant find much info.

The Stove has around 4 pieces joined together to get the shape, I may need to work out a way to keep it together as the weather has taken its toll on it.









GG

[Moggy]

Looks like something used for an old copper. To wash clothes? ? ?

[ScottT]

Cleaned out a corner of the garden the other day and came across this old cast iron number. Maybe I can tourn it into a fire place worthy of camp oven cooking. Anyone know much about them, have had a quick search and cant find much info.

The Stove has around 4 pieces joined together to get the shape, I may need to work out a way to keep it together as the weather has taken its toll on it.











GG

It's a copper boiler GG, that's about all I know ! Other than they were made by Metters

Cheers, Scott

[Steffo1]

Yep GG, that's it, The fire went underneath & a copper tub with water sat inside the frame for cloths washing. My parents used one in my formative years. It was also used by my Dad for plucking chooks (when Mum wasn't home) as it was easier than the old kero tin we normally used We also had a Metters wood stove in the house which had a place for the solid, flat iron that my mothe would do the said cloths with. Didn't that keep the house warm!
Might be worth chasing a bit more on the copper.
Steve

[tracker]

Cleaned out a corner of the garden the other day and came across this old cast iron number. Maybe I can tourn it into a fire place worthy of camp oven cooking. Anyone know much about them, have had a quick search and cant find much info.

The Stove has around 4 pieces joined together to get the shape, I may need to work out a way to keep it together as the weather has taken its toll on it.









GG

     I remember seeing them as a kid......Fire under and copper kettle top with a chimney out top.......I recon a collector would pay a top price for one of those

                                                                    Cheers Tracker.

[Metters]

Don't be surprised if you can't find any information about them.

I called in to the the Mitchel Library archives in Sydney a couple of years ago looking for information on a Metters cast iron wood burning stove.  Two librarians took a serious interest in it and spent about an hour searching computers and store rooms but could only find a Metters and a Grace Brothers catalogue from the 1920s and 40s.

They could not believe they had so little information a company that was so big back in its day.

This link is to a 1936 Metters catalogue that is in the National Library in Canberra.  http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2952372

There is a couple of coppers listed.  It looks like yours could have had a lift out bowl that was made by either spinning, riveting or brazing.

[rossm]

When I was a lad we didnt always have the mod cons ( and I don't mean the camper) and we had something similar in the laundry with the copper insert.

We didn't have a hot  water system in the bathroom so the water was heated up in the copper and then bucketed into the bathroom. I remember it was pretty efficient, didn't need a lot of wood to  get the water hot.

I remember one year we cooked the Christmas ham in it.


Those those old style coppers also were very popular with people down at Mandurah as crab cookers.