Over a long period we have managed to track down and purchase a number of historic documents relating to Aga cookers and AGA HEAT LIMITED. Such documents are often referred to as ephemera. Our collection includes price lists, advertisements and letters from the company to customers.
We will be reproducing some of these in digital form and making them available here or viewing purposes. The images are strictly our property and should not be copied and/or used anywhere else for any purpose without our express permission. If you want to use them you must ask first.
Students working on projects relating to AGA cookers (yes, we know there are some of you because you keep emailing us) may be given permission to use some of these images without charge. Please ask.
Click on the images to see a larger version. Even larger images are available on request.
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This is an Aga price list booklet. It includes two main types of Aga product, the cookers themselves and boilers. There are 12 pages in all but no date has been printed anywhere in the booklet. The back page does give the telephone number for AGA HEAT LIMITED as MAYfair 8454. It's a London address with a 4 digit telephone number so it's going to be quite an old booklet. Front cover reads: Guaranteed fuel consumption means that you can budget exactly--and an incredible low budget it is ! AGAMATIC boilers precision-made to burn solid, smokeless fuel and to burn it with the utmost economy P R I C E L I S T |
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A letter from 1937. It was written by AGA HEAT Ltd. and sent to Messrs. Dexters Ltd., probably a dealer, regarding a delay in the fitting of an Aga automatic boiler. This was the least of their worries considering what was going to take place over the following few years. |
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Choose your Aga in a gay new colour. That's the message in this little sales brochure from the company. Includes a nice image of the insides of a solid fuel Aga. |
Brian Wright contacted us with the following contributions:
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As a lifelong Aga enthusiast (starting with my parents' Model E (I think) in about 1945), I thought you might like to add the attached advertisement to your on-line collection. It appeared in Punch on 22 April 1936 - the artist who drew the watercolour picture was my uncle, Lawrence Wright, who was quite well known in his lifetime as an architectural artist and author. Best wishes, Brian Wright. |
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In the early 1950s, my father, Maxwell Wright, went into business as an architectural and industrial model builder. As part of the "set-up" procedure, he made a small number of demonstration models to be shown to prospective clients. One of the models (which, incidentally, I have still in my possession) was a 1 1/2" = 1 foot scale model of an Aga model C cooker. I attach a contemporary photograph of the model, which you may also like to add to your archive! Best wishes, Brian Wright. |
Thanks Brian. Click on the images to enlarge them.
This is an on going project.