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Has anybody seen or used one of these? Saw it the other day on the inter web. It?s a horbart weld mobile. Kinda neat looking. Would like to see one in person.

Cool! A rust pic!! :mrgreen:

That?s supposed to be Hobart weld mobile. Not horbart!

I went to Hobart's welding school back in the late 60's and they had pictures of those at the school. I think I may have an old book somewhere that has some literature on them. If I get time this weekend I will look. That would be a neat old piece to add to my collection.

Looks like a meeting between Schramm and Clark. (Like the front wheel chock.)

Did you see it for sale here:
http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/ch...r-straight-in-line-8-flathead-8-cylinder.html

Or elsewhere?
The above ad says it is a 1945 with straight 8 flat head Chrysler industrial engine.
Yours for only $25,000

Hobart also made great dishwashers at one time, high end commercial level stuff plus Kitchenaid for the home market (when Kitchenaid was a "real" appliance make by itself and not a re-badged clone like it is today).

That's different all right. If it was used during the war years, I'll bet it has a lot of hours on it. Stan

I once had a tire that looked like the left front one!

Was one North of Bartlesville Ok where someone had whole bunch of Olivers and other makes at. Had big sale there I have heard.Hadnt been back thru there in several years. Have pic of it. I know Dewey/Bartlesville has changed a lot since lived there 50 years ago.

Consolidated Diesel Electric made a 28 volt aircraft ground start unit that looks just like that.

The one I worked on had a Chrysler hemi industrial engine coupled to a generator then a transmission attached to the back of the generator.

(quoted from post at 10:45:33 10/04/18) Hobart also made great dishwashers at one time, high end commercial level stuff plus Kitchenaid for the home market (when Kitchenaid was a "real" appliance make by itself and not a re-badged clone like it is today).

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Crazy Horse, Hobart Foodservice equipment still makes commercial and domestic dishing machines along with many other articles of cooking and foodservice equipment. Hobart welding equipment is a completely different company.

The place that you are talking about is gone.
Bruce

The one have pic of is same one DoubleO7 posted. Hasn't changed a bit just moved up the road a few miles

Showcrop ..... I've often thought that welders and kitchen equipment were sort of strange bedfellows. Learn
something every day. My wife still misses our Kitchenaid dishwasher that we purchased in 1972 and had for
almost 30 years. The new ones of course are something else with the name stuck on. We now have a Bosch
which is pretty good actually, not the cleaning power of the old one mind you but it uses a lot less hot
water and has some kind of a magic drying cycle that stores heat during the cycle and then uses it after
shut down to dry the dishes.

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(quoted from post at 10:45:33 10/04/18) Hobart also made great dishwashers at one time, high end commercial level stuff plus Kitchenaid for the home market (when Kitchenaid was a "real" appliance make by itself and not a re-badged clone like it is today).

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Crazy Horse, Hobart Foodservice equipment still makes commercial and domestic dishing machines along with many other articles of cooking and foodservice equipment. Hobart welding equipment is a completely different company.

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Hobart welding equipment used to be made by the same company that makes appliances. My parents were from Troy, OH where Hobart is/was headquartered and knew the Hobart family.

(quoted from post at 16:27:52 10/04/18) Has anybody seen or used one of these? Saw it the other day on the inter web. It?s a horbart weld mobile. Kinda neat looking. Would like to see one in person.

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Never saw one before, but now that I have.......I "need" one.

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(quoted from post at 10:45:33 10/04/18) Hobart also made great dishwashers at one time, high end commercial level stuff plus Kitchenaid for the home market (when Kitchenaid was a "real" appliance make by itself and not a re-badged clone like it is today).

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Crazy Horse, Hobart Foodservice equipment still makes commercial and domestic dishing machines along with many other articles of cooking and foodservice equipment. Hobart welding equipment is a completely different company.

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Hobart welding equipment used to be made by the same company that makes appliances. My parents were from Troy, OH where Hobart is/was headquartered and knew the Hobart family.

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Pops, I am sure that your parents knew plenty of Hobarts in Troy Ohio, LOL. But same name and city doesn't make them same ownership even going back into the 1800s

Both owned and started by the same man. Maybe separate companies but very closely related companies.

(quoted from post at 09:14:10 10/05/18) Both owned and started by the same man. Maybe separate companies but very closely related companies.

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Looking om the computer I found this;

Clarence Charles Hobart founded 5 companies
1. The Hobart Electric Co. founded in 1886 in Middletown, OH and destroyed by fire in 1890.

2. Hobart Electric Manufacturing Company was founded in 1897 in Troy, OH. CC Hobart and J.A. Johnson were the first to apply electric power to food processing by building the first electric coffee grinder the company was sold to partners in 1904 as the Hobart Manufacturing Company. The Kitchen Aid trade name was first used in 1918, Dart & Kraft aquired it in 1986 and it became PMI Food Equipment Group and was aquired by ITW in 2000.

3. The American Fixture Co. was founded in 1904 in Troy, OH. Part of the business was sold to his partners in 1914, company was closed in 1949.

4. The Hobart Brothers Company was incorporated in 1914 in Troy, OH with his sons Charles Hobart as Finance, E.A. Hobart as Engineer and William Hobart as sales. The initial products were for automotive service including battery chargers, air compressors, and power washers. They built their first welder in1925, opened the Hobart Welding School in 1930 (now Hobart Institute of Technology), started Hobart Steel Welded House Co. in 1932, began manufacturing electrodes in 1937, built first aircraft ground power generator in 1946, Microwire welding system developed in 1960-61, sold to ITW in 1996.

5. The Hobart Cabinet Co. was founded in 1926 in Troy, OH with his oldest son Charles as President manufacturing metal office furniture, company still exhist today.

So from what I read seems like all in the same family just different combinations of father and sons depending on each division.