Thread Number: 62527
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 851291 , Reply# 2   11/12/2015 at 20:04 (3,058 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Was an interesting machine. SQ was the last US appliance maker to introduce a Combination washer-dryer to the market place in 1961, I am not sure how long they made and sold this machine, maybe only a few years.
We have a 61-62 machine in our collection, to my knowledge it is the only one know to exist, although there was one out at SQs headquarters in Wisconsin some years ago, we hope they still have it.
It was the smallest of the US combos, measuring only 25 5/8" wide, it was differently built by SQ, but borrowed the plans from the very short lived larger 1957 Hotpoint Combo, { the HP Combo is now the only Combo that Tom and I have yet to find ]
The SQ was built only in an electric condensing drying machine like GE and Hotpoint.
The SQ was the second fastest spinning machine next to the Bendix machines built in the US.
Combo production started in late 1952 by Bendix and culminated with GEs last Combos in early 1973, just over 20 years of real [ full sized-full powered ] Combos were ever built in the world.
John L. |
Post# 851343 , Reply# 3   11/13/2015 at 05:30 (3,058 days old) by Easyspindry (Winston-Salem, NC)   |   | |
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. . . input. I'd love to see one of these babes in operation. You guys are truly a wealth of knowledge. Thanks again. Jerry Gay |