Skip to main content

Story: Cooking

Shacklock Orion range advertisement, 1898

Image
Shacklock Orion range advertisement, 1898

Henry Shacklock designed and built the Orion range in 1873. It was designed to burn the type of coal readily available in New Zealand, unlike British and American ranges, which did not suit that coal. The Orion was readily taken up by New Zealand cooks. This advertisement from 1898 shows a range with a double oven.

Using this item

National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: Otago Witness, 3 March 1898, p. 3

Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page

David Burton, Cooking – Cooking technology, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/38515/shacklock-orion-range-advertisement-1898 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Burton, published 18 June 2012.