Thread Number: 11962
Philco Double Tub Wringer Washing Machine |
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Post# 212083   5/24/2007 at 21:49 (6,152 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 212084 , Reply# 1   5/24/2007 at 21:53 (6,152 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 212122 , Reply# 2   5/25/2007 at 05:17 (6,152 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 212136 , Reply# 4   5/25/2007 at 06:52 (6,152 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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You must remember, that not everyone had unlimited hot water, heck even water supplies well into the 1960's (maybe even longer). Twin tub/wringer washing machines still give the best bang for water savings aside from "suds" saving automatics. Women who knew what they were doing, could run though an entire week of laundry from say the farm,and have them on the line in no time flat. L. |
Post# 212164 , Reply# 5   5/25/2007 at 08:58 (6,152 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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then wring into the other tub to rinse then wring to a board to hang dry? Or would you do double wash and double rinse?? This is cool as Philco bought Dexter right after they bought Bendix. Then Philco brought out the 29 inch NON Bendix Combo in made in PHILA. But all the parts and moldings for the 36 inch Bendix combo made the trek from South Bend, IN out to Fairfield, IA where they produced their commercial "double loader" machine based entirely on the Bendix Combo. Which is why we can get some new parts for the Bendix Combo today. I was told that Ford bought Philco sometime after the Bendix purchase but before the Dexter purchase. 1958-1960 time frame from what I understand. Then the employees of Dexter finally bought themselves out-- a WISE move!! Washer history is so interconnected. |
Post# 212253 , Reply# 7   5/25/2007 at 19:10 (6,152 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)   |   | |
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I have this behemoth in pink. You can soak in one, wash in the other; wash in both; rinse in both; starch in one bleach in the other, the combos are limitless, esp. when you're involving other machines--not to mention bluing!!!! When we all go roadbound, or retire early, or whatever, any one of my good brothers or sister, Laundress, in partricular is welcome to have it as a friendship gift. I bought it for 25 dollars, 12 years ago, through a Buffalo News want ad. |