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Berkel meatold slicer The mythical Berkel slicing machine was invented by a gentleman from Netherlands, Wilhelm Von Berkel, butcher in Rotterdam in the 1800. He had the brilliant idea to arrange a great circular blade to a large flies setoperated manually, after this first prototype, severalothers followed and in 1888 the first factory was founded in a former printingoffice. The success was
immediate and from the productionof a few hundreds machines by the endof the
800, the factory began the new centuryopening branches throughout Europe
The classification and the modelsof theold Berkel
slicing machines followed a trend by the start to the XX century as the Lambretta
motorbike did. The first models serial number was composed by alphabetical letters
and later serial numbers by alphanumeric:
Model B Model C Model D Model L Model R Models produced before the first world war
are characterized by the base worked in the typical
Art-Nouveau style
Subsequently, Model 3 Model 5 Model 7 Model 8 Model 9
Model 12 and Indiana Model, the last produced for the U.S.A market which was
produced in the twenties and thirties in a new factory in the stateof Indiana
The Berkel does notonly produce slicing machines
but also by endof the twenties also classic and platform scales. During the first world war
Berkel factories also produced motors for Dutch army
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Antique
Berkel meat slicer reconditioned
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