This is listed as a Kelvinator in the ad, any idea who built it? Approx what era?

Thanks

Mark

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Looks like a service panel lower front, does that help identify the manufacturer?

console sort of close up

This is a Franklin design owned by White Industries by this time. Of all the TL washers out there from this era this is the last one I would add to my collection and I don't think that even my collection will get this large LOL. It works like Frigidaire TL washers of the past 20 or so years, lots of wash tub indexing OK cleaning if not loaded too heavily, but no real exciting virtues. It is a washer for people who don't care about washers.

We had that washer in Gibson livery when we first bought this house. That thing was so loud, you thought it was marching up the basement stairs!

 I went out and found a harvest gold Maytag 806 on a trade in pile. Got it going, replaced the Gibson with it, and never looked back.

Gordon, that 806 lasted us for 7 years or so, until we replaced it with another Maytag off of a trade in pile, an A 511. The 806 went to my sister in law, who used it for several years. Then I got it back, and sold it for $100.00.

I'm sure it's still going somewhere.....

When my cousin and her husband built their home in 1978 it came with WCI Kelvinator appliances.  The washer lasted until the mid 80's, and the range and fridge until the late 80's.  The dryer was replaced in the mid 90's because my cousin lives out in the country and hangs alot of laundry outside to dry.  This probably helped it last as long as it did.  The washer actually washed quite well, especially given that alot of dirty clothes from the barn & fields went through that machine.