Here's an early GE dryer that was working when we removed it from the house! Taking offers!!! Mark

drum shot! Mark

It's made by Hamilton

Bob - were the old Hamilton dryers good? My aunt had one, and i remember her having a lot of problems with it. It was a gas dryer with the window. But she also had 5 kids.

I only knew of a few people who had Hamiltons, all were gas, and every family had at least 4 kids. They lasted a long time.

Mark that is the very first dryer my mom had!! We also had the matching washer. That dryer lasted a good 25 years. My mom got a new set after using this for about 15 years and gave it to my brother and his wife. It was still working great when they got rid of it. It has a drawer at the bottom where it collected the lint. Had such a neat cleaning brush that came with it as well. Thanks for sharing, it brings back lots of memories. Terry

We had a Hamilton dryer of that generation. At the time it worked; but it was a bit of a nightmare. It had a heating element hung above the drum not much more sophisticated than the nichrome coils on a waffle iron, so the clothes basically "broiled" under its heat as they tumbled away. The laundry came out of it so hot that it needed to cool down before you could touch it. It made sense of that old Peanuts cartoon where Linus is waiting for his blanket to come out of the dryer(Lucy uses a stick to fish it out of the appliance for him) and Snoopy ends up snatching it in his mouth only to drop it from the heat. After two years of using it I finally figured out that it indeed had a lint filter at the very bottom of the unit. It's amazing we never had a fire.

Where did you find that out? Just curious. PAT COFFEY

We had one in our summer home. And I used to love seeing the clothes tumble in the light of the ozone bulb.
But like Linus the clothes used to come out so hot you couldn't touch them!

I think this machine was made by GE it is part of their very first matched set washer & dryer. I know their earliest dryer like Frigidiare was made by Hamilton. But this unit I think is all GE.

I was curious about the Hamilton/GE connection here and pulled out some old GE parts/service doctrine. Quite a few parts are very similar in style & design to the Hamilton but as many or more were very different too. Perhaps Hamilton was used as a source for components and GE added their own signature to the design.

Curiosity once killed a cat...