Rangemaster are the market leaders in range cooking, they have a broad range of aspirational products famed for style and functionality in the UK cooker market. Be it in the distinctive design of the Elan, or in the breakthrough contemporary styling of the Elite, Rangemaster is an energetic company full of ideas.
They are able to draw on a long history, stretching back well over 200 years, and have in the last three years alone invested well over £3 million in their Royal Leamington Spa factory creating a new state of the art design and production centre.The Rangemaster story begins in 1777 (when the United States of America had only been independent of Great Britain for one year) with the enterprising John Flavel. He started a foundry specialising first in ‘vapour baths’ inspired by the spas of Leamington; then after a while moving into cooking stoves.In 1803 – the operation first moved to Leamington Spa where generations of the Flavel family were to become civic leaders in the town and the factory became a major local employer.
The mighty Eagle Foundry was then built in 1833. On what is now the press shop area of the current Leamington site. In 1859 it was described as "the largest manufactory of it’s kind in the world". The new foundry enabled John’s son, William, to expand and develop his epoch-making 1830 invention, the 'Kitchener' range cooker.
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