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| Post# 617102 8/14/2012 at 21:33 (4,273 days old) by classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia) | ||
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Post# 617112 , Reply# 1 8/14/2012 at 21:44 (4,273 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Post# 617140 , Reply# 2 8/14/2012 at 23:15 (4,273 days old) by d-jones (Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Area)) |
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Post# 617144 , Reply# 3 8/14/2012 at 23:23 (4,273 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Nice washer A very early example of Avocado; probably a '67. This machine is not far from me, but I don't need something else to take to storage. | ||
| Post# 617159 , Reply# 4 8/15/2012 at 02:08 (4,272 days old) by geextrarinse (Hudson Valley, New York ) | ||
I wish it was closer!  | ||
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Post# 617184 , Reply# 5 8/15/2012 at 06:45 (4,272 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Bob,
One step down from TOL. The TOL had the time-line type of indicator and 5 programmed selections arranged horizontally across the top. The P.O.D. occasionally features it. In many ways this is even nicer because the user has complete control over speeds and temps, not just program selections. This must be 1966, that was the year GE introduced Avocado. lawrence | ||
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Post# 617185 , Reply# 6 8/15/2012 at 06:51 (4,272 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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for the record | ||
| Post# 617187 , Reply# 7 8/15/2012 at 06:55 (4,272 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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Post# 617193 , Reply# 8 8/15/2012 at 08:00 (4,272 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Cool Avocado GE Washer | ||
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Post# 617196 , Reply# 9 8/15/2012 at 08:16 (4,272 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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An essentially similar model had the light under the controls which kept it from shining in your eyes. | ||
| Post# 617213 , Reply# 10 8/15/2012 at 10:04 (4,272 days old) by dishwashercrazy (West Peoria, IL) | ||
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Post# 617230 , Reply# 11 8/15/2012 at 11:44 (4,272 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Lawrence, you're rigtht. My very first boss when I went to work for the compan y I worked for for 20 years, this was his family's first washer and they bought it in like 1965 or 1966. Yeah, I now realize the progrtammed machine would be the TOL. But I do agree with you, I prefer the total independent selections of speed & temps. Something went wrong with this machine and so they mothgballed it and bougtht a used belt drive. They were somewhat dismayed as to how much water even on the lowest setting the belt drive used compared to the FF. A coworker and fellow team member acquired thjis washer and they fixed whatever was wrong with it in like 1978 and it kept running for several years between running an in-home day care and having 4 kids under 6 with diapers. Machine ran at least another 10 years. And yues, it had a console light. I dind't even notice the color of the machine. | ||
| Post# 617231 , Reply# 12 8/15/2012 at 12:18 (4,272 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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| Post# 617250 , Reply# 13 8/15/2012 at 13:38 (4,272 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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Post# 617253 , Reply# 14 8/15/2012 at 13:59 (4,272 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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No. The "V" didn't really stand for anything. The "14" did supposedly designate a 14-pound capacity.
I suspect the "V" was an outgrowth of America's fascination with automobiles and upward-mobility. After all, if a V-8 was good, how much better would a V-12 be? That designation was introduced in 1961 when GE unveiled their perforated-tub, 12-pound capacity models. lawrence | ||
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Post# 617283 , Reply# 15 8/15/2012 at 17:27 (4,272 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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V, not for victory here. Originally, "V" stood for "Volumatic" as with the introduction of the purportedly larger (than the solid-tub) perforated washbaskets in 1961 which were all festooned with "V-12" stickers that disappeared less than a year from the promotion. You saw the word on some machines and I've seen it on GE machines that Antipodean members have posted on this site. For 5 years after that, the control panels all had a "V-12" embossed somewhere on them. They didn't elaborate on them, but I suspect they liked the muscle reference to automobile engines and stuck with it for most of the decade. By 1970, "Heavy Duty" took over as the popular appliance self-rating.
The numbers, "12", "14" and "16" were big shameless corporate fibs. The washbasket dimensions NEVER changed and they could barely contain a 12-pound load of normal clothes if one stood on top of the load and packed it in. 
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Post# 617306 , Reply# 16 8/15/2012 at 19:12 (4,272 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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