A bit of catalytic stove history - Concorde Catalytic

I was there - selling some of the first ones!

Loved it. What a kick way back then to hear about stoves which would burn cleaner!

https://www.hearth.com/talk/wiki/concorde-catalytic/

Holiday said:

Very interesting, wonder if there's many burning yet. Or how many were sold.

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My guess is a few thousands - probably a few here and there still burning! It was built very solidly and the cat was a standard 6" round.

It was not a slow burner as they had not worked out that part of the technology. With the elevated grate and lots of air coming in around the doors (hard to gasket right), overnight burns were tough. But it was great looking down through the little sight glass on the top and seeing the cat glow.

It wasn't too long afterwards that the maker, Scandia, was driven out of business by the trademark lawsuits brought by Jotul and VC against their copies....or at least that's my educated guess as to why they went under. They also made an insert version of the Concorde which was defective and barely heated at all....I got stuck with a whole trailer load of them and couldn't sell them. I recouped a few dollars over the years robbing them of parts (same doors and glass).