Viking Frame Number Register Here are the frame numbers that I know about, but I really would like more. It is currently very difficult to discern a real pattern that will enable the prediction of model and year from a frame number. Viking year of manufacture reference device model years of manufacture notes accelerator model a 1924-1927 1 model a-2 1927-1932 1 model b-1 1932-1983 4 model c-1 1979-1984 1 model d-1 1984-1998 4 model d-2 1998- 4 model e-1 1993- 4 accelerator, release line model b-1 1935-1981 4 air compressor. Show All Cast Iron Ductile Iron Stainless Steel Steel.
1. What do Viking Model Number and Serial Numbers Look Like?
Viking Model Numbers generally begin with a V (for Professional Series Products) or D (for Designer Series Products).
Viking Model Number Samples:
VGIC366-6B
DGSU160-5B
Viking Serial Numbers have many digits and an occasional letter.
Viking Serial Number Examples:
R04280008204
010109C85472594
2. What does the Viking Model/Serial Tag Look Like?
3. Where do I find the Viking Model Number and Serial Number?
Viking Model Numbers and Serial Numbers are printed on white labels attached to your Viking Appliance.
1. For Viking Open Burner Ranges and Rangetops (You have an Open Burner Range or Rangetop if you can remove your burner bowls.)
Remove the left rear grate and the left rear burner bowl. Look in the hole for the label. You may need a flashlight.
2. For Viking Sealed Burner Ranges (You have a Sealed Burner Range if you can only remove the burner cap and burner, but not the burner bowl.)
Open the Oven Door. Look on the upper left oven face for the label.
If you do not see it there, remove the toe-kick grill (below Oven Door) and the label will be in the middle attached to the bottom frame.
3. For Viking Sealed Burner Rangetops (You have a Sealed Burner Rangetop if you can only remove the burner cap and burner, but not the burner bowl.)
Look on the left underside of the Rangetop's Drip Tray Handle for the label.
4. For All Viking Cooktops
Look underneath the Cooktop for the label.
5. For Viking Wall Ovens
Open the oven door. For double oven units, open the bottom oven door. Look on the left side of the oven cavity frame for the white label.
On newer units, after opening oven door, look up under the control face for the label.
6. For Viking Built-In Bottom Mount Refrigerators
Remove both produce drawers. Look at the now-exposed refrigerator wall for the label.
7. For Viking Built-In Side-by-Sides
Remove crisper drawers and look for tag on interior refrigerator wall. OR Look up at interior ceiling right side.
8. For Viking Freestanding Refrigerators French Door and Bottom Mount and Side by Side
Look on top right hand side interior side wall.
9. For Most Viking Ventilation Hoods
Remove the grease filters and look for the label inside.
10. For Most Viking Downdrafts
Open your cabinets and look at the front of the motor cover.
11. For Viking Barbecue Grills
Remove the drip tray and look up under the left front bottom. You may need a flashlight.
12. For Viking Kitchen Cleanup: Dishwashers, Trash Compactors, and Disposals.
13. For Viking Wine Coolers, Undercounter Refrigeration, and IceMakers
13. For Viking Warming Drawers, Microwaves, Microchambers, and Woks
By Dick Long
5166 S. Vine, Wichita, Kansas 67217
After my request for Standard Twin information came out in GEM
May, 1989, I received a number of letters with serial numbers of
Standard Twins. I asked a number of different questions; I am going
to answer all of them in this article.
I do not know when Standard Engine Company started building
tractors. I have pictures of their early tractors. They were open,
chain driven, using a motor cycle engine for power. Then came an
open gear driven model. Next was a completely enclosed Standard.
The first named model was the Monarch.
Early Monarchs used buzz coil ignition, later units used
magnetos. I own a late Monarch. After the Monarch, Standard joined
force with the Walsh Tractor Company and brought out the Walsh. The
Walsh is the smallest Standard. Last in the Standard line is the
Twin.
Serial numbers on all tractors are consecutive. Walsh serials
have a D in them, Monarch serials have an E, and Twin serials use a
C. To determine the year built through 1938, use the first two
numbers of the serial number. Starting with 1939 use the first and
third number in the serial number.
Standard made all parts for their tractors including
engines.
Early Twins did not have governors, brakes, or aluminum heads
and pistons. Brakes were an option starting at serial 37C2158.
Aluminum heads and pistons were used starting at serial 400C5204.1
do not know when governors were added. But I think they were
started at serial 400C5204- Later Twins have the serial number
stamped on the engine block below the rear valve cover.
Apparently there never was a riding version of the Twin.
Standard did make a steer able sulky as an option, and this was
called the Convertible.
Standard Twins were painted dark blue with red wheels. The rust
red color on a lot of tractors is the primer. Primer on these
tractors lasts longer than the paint.
On Standards without governors (which includes all Walsh,
Monarchs, and early Twins) the operator becomes the engine speed
control. This will keep a person busy when plowing short rows.
Another tractor which is very similar to the Twin is a Viking
Twin. Serial numbers are even the same, with Vikings also using a C
in the serial number. Both tractors probably had the same parent
company.
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As far as I can tell Standard ended production in 1955.
The Twin pictured in the Reflector’s column in the May GEM
was modified to a rider by myself. I received several letters with
pictures of Twins modified to riders. The decal on the gas tank was
made by my daughter Karen.
Along with the rider and Monarch I also own four other Twins, a
Convertible and several attachments.
Collecting, restoring, modifying and researching Standard
tractors has been a very enjoyable part of an old iron hobby.
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Thanks to everyone who sent letters and pictures of their
Standard tractors.
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