6 hours ago, lindag said:A lot like the one my folks had in the late fifties, don't remember what the make was but I do think the deep-well was on the right in the back. Mom made some mighty fine meals on that stove.
chexking photos of these stoves on Google tells me my memory is off; the deep wells are all on the left side.
On these Airliners (and a modern $$$$ Lacanche I cooked on last year in Paris), the wells are actually another hob, but designed to be lowered into the body of the range to accomodate the pot. By the time I inherited the Airliner, the pot and cover pictured in Andie's photo were long gone, and the coil was moved up. The only sign that hob is different is a wider SS trim ring. I scrounged another pot and cover. It's really a nice feature, along with the warming drawer.
The Lacanche's moveable hob was an induction coil.
