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Thread Number: 63649
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Vintage AMC range oven - $400(Detroit area) |
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Post# 862167 1/16/2016 at 10:27 (3,016 days old) by ovrphil  (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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A remnant of the Kelvinator brand that Nash held onto and came along with the merger to create AMC. Did AMC rebrand the Kelvinator refrigerators as well?
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Post# 862179 , Reply# 3 1/16/2016 at 11:26 (3,016 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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AMC
AMC - American Motors Co. merged with Nash Motors, creating a Nash-Kelvinator division in the late 30's. I'm not familiar with American Machine Company and you are, Chris, have a greater range of history/knowledge than me with appliances. Nash merged with Hudson Motors, but somewhere along the merger timelines, American Motors (the car company) retained Nash-Kelvinator as a divsion up to (so I read)the late 60's, after which Kelvinator joined White-Consolidated.
I honestly had to research to verify what my father-in-law mentioned long ago. American Machine Company-not familiar with their heritage and contributions. | ||
| Post# 862180 , Reply# 4 1/16/2016 at 11:27 (3,016 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida) | ||
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I believe it was pronounced Aimcee Wholesale. The fans were made by Hunter, those were actually good. That range is definitely made by Sunray, and some Montgomery Wards ones were too. The slanted controls are one clear indicator. | ||
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Post# 862182 , Reply# 5 1/16/2016 at 11:31 (3,016 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Not a Kelvinator | ||
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Post# 862203 , Reply# 6 1/16/2016 at 14:36 (3,016 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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AMC appliances (40s) pre-dated AMC Corporation (late 50s) and vehicles (late 60s). When Aimcee was set up, AMC was Nash Kelvinator, Packard, Hudson and Willys individually (as some of the "independent" car companies) which didn't really come together until the mid-50s (Nash/Packard/Hudson) and 60s (Willys Jeep). Aimcee was more for the independent department stores of the time...May Department Stores had a brandname (Duracrest, as I recall); Allied (Ambassador), Macy (Supremacy); not to mention Sears/Wards/Penneys. I think in the day Hudson's was big enough to private-label themselves some of the more local products (you sometimes see Hudson's refrigeration and ironers in the Detroit area).
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| Post# 862217 , Reply# 7 1/16/2016 at 15:36 (3,015 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Hudson Had a lot of stuff under their name, I have a Hudson vacuum cleaner that is a Kingston, and Hudson used Hardwick ranges rebadged Hudson. | ||
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Post# 862223 , Reply# 8 1/16/2016 at 16:09 (3,015 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 862235 , Reply# 9 1/16/2016 at 18:01 (3,015 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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And on so many cheap gas ranges of that period, all of the stamped aluminum burners were 6K BTU so there was no hope for speed. | ||
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Post# 862334 , Reply# 10 1/17/2016 at 11:16 (3,015 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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"Awful crap" | ||
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