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VICTORINOX-Domestic and Professional marine knives

15 or 5.20 33. 22 . The illustrations on pages 22, 46–47b are shown ata scale of 1:3, and 1:4 on pages 23–29, 32–44. To avoid the chromium-plating of carbon-steel knives, Charles Elsener, the oldest son of the founder urged a steel-millto develop a stainless-steel that could be hardened. After many trials he manufactured in Ibach the first stainless-steel knives. As the results were not quite satisfactory at the beginning great efforts were made the following years to improve the quality of the stainless-steel knives. In 1931 the firm Brown Boveri in Baden/Switzerland was assigned the task of installing at VICTORINOX Ibach the world’s first fully electric steel hardening plant. Afterwards the VICTORINOX pro- fessional and butcher knives become famous first in Switzerland, France and the USA and later worldwide.The last figure of the 5-digit item number code indicates:5.04 0 =polished rosewood handle 1 =red polypropylene handle, dishwasher-proofor red anti-slip, sterilizable FIBROX handle for professional knives 2 =blue polypropylene handle, dishwasher-proofor blue anti-slip, sterilizable FIBROX handle for professional knives 3 =black polypropylene handle, dishwasher-proofor black anti-slip, sterilizable FIBROX handle for professional knives On the illustrations and pricelists pages 22, 26–35 you will find the knives with wooden handles on the left and the corresponding oneswith dishwasher- proof polypropylene and FIBROX handles respectively on the right. 6 =other shape of handle 7 =white polypropylene handle, dishwasher-proof Packing 8 =yellow anti-slip, sterilizable FIBROX handle for professional knives The paring knives, page 22, with rosewood and bubin-gawood handles are supplied in boxes of 6 pieces and those with polypropylene handles with patented blade protection in boxes of 20 pieces.For individual self-service wallets there is an extra charge of CHF -.20.The household knives are supplied without extra cost inindividual self-service wallets in boxes of 6 pieces, ex- cepting the following models:Page 26:No. 5.1733, 5.2060-63No. 5.2000–5.2033 only 25-31 cmPage 28:varying kinds of packing Page 29:No. 5.4503The butcher knives on the pages 32–34 are suppliedwith blade protection in boxes of 6 pieces, also the above mentioned exceptions. 9 =lacquered bubingawood handleThe penultimate figure denotes:5.41 0= normal straight edge 1 0= flexible blade 2 0= fluted edge 3 0= wavy edge 4 0= saw edge 5 0= 3 0 + 4 6 0= other shape of blade 7 0= 0 + saw edge Where knives are available in several sizes, please note the length of blade which follows the 5-digit item number code, i.e. 5.18 00.
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