Riteway

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Riteway Manufacturing Co., of Harrisonburg, Va. made wood stoves throughout the 1970's and 1980's. The designs were utilitarian, and used a downdraft method of combustion. Some models were outfitted as furnaces and boilers. Later models (1982 on) attempted to use catalytic converters, however soon after Riteway because a causualty of cheap energy prices in the mid-1980's.

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