Thread Number: 33797
When did kenmore start using this desing and plastic knobs on there washer and dryer set? |
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Post# 507869   3/29/2011 at 09:41 (4,784 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 507924 , Reply# 1   3/29/2011 at 13:48 (4,784 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 507929 , Reply# 2   3/29/2011 at 14:07 (4,784 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 507954 , Reply# 3   3/29/2011 at 16:14 (4,784 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)   |   | |
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Pierre -
I wish I could tell you more, but until I joined AW.org in 2008, I was unaware that Canadian Kenmores were different! I knew that Canada had Simpsons Sears and that Sears Roebuck of the U.S. was not entirely the same company, and I did wonder from time to time if Canadian machines were different, but I never saw one until someone posted a few on here many months ago. There has been a POD catalog ad or two on here that have shown us a couple of the MOL models from the late 70s. These were center-dial models with plastic control panels and familiar knobs that were used on U.S. belt-drives for 14 or so years. As to the machines in the picture above, the dryer door matches nothing we've had in the U.S. ever on a Whirlpool produced Kenmore. In fact, side-swing doors of any kind on a Kenmore full-size dryer first happened in the early 90s I believe. When WP added the large side-swing doors for the 5.9 dryer and then the large capacity units, Kenmore got them as well almost right away. From what I can see, your pictured machines have plastic control panels, which I think approximate the 1974 and later plastic panel that all U.S. BOL to MOL Kenmores had. This panel was used well into the DD era and was only discontinued a few years ago. U.S. machines were never better than 500 series machines, with one exception, a 1976 60-series alphabet model, which I've seen in one catalog only. I have included a picture of a 1981 Kenmore 200 with this plastic panel. They appeared in the belt-drive years either in this ivory color, or in dark walnut, and had either no insert on the left, the black that this one has, or a woodgrain insert. Later DD machines used white panels and camel (puke) color, which is an orangish tan. I'm sorry that I don't know more Pierre! Gordon |
Post# 507958 , Reply# 4   3/29/2011 at 16:36 (4,784 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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