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Thread Number: 69470
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 923514 2/24/2017 at 03:53 (2,612 days old) by foraloysius  (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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I came across these pictures in my archives. Perhaps I even found it on this website. I guess it's a General Electric from the 50's? I think neighbours of us had this washer in white and I think I remember it was a GE. Better pictures of this model would be appreciated.
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Post# 923521 , Reply# 1 2/24/2017 at 05:45 (2,612 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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You are right, Louis! it is a pre-Filter Flo model with the hot/warm water switch on top of the timer escutcheon. Friends in Florida had one. Without a model number, I cannot be sure of the year, but would bet on pre-1955. | ||
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Post# 923522 , Reply# 2 2/24/2017 at 06:00 (2,612 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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| Post# 923526 , Reply# 3 2/24/2017 at 06:39 (2,612 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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In RARE Cadet Blue no less!!!!! | ||
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Post# 923556 , Reply# 4 2/24/2017 at 09:43 (2,611 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 this is a lower-end model of the POD 1954 or 1955 GE. The POD model had timer dial on one side and water temperature dial on the other with the water saver switch (horizontally oriented) in between the two knobs. Friends at the end of our street, they had the matched set--only got to see from afar. They also had the lower-end Waste King DW compared to our higher-end 3-button WK. Our GE washer, which replaced the Bendix because I couldn't leave it alone, looks just like Jetcone's, but didn't have filter-flo. I remember our owner's manual had an insert for the washer I'm thinking of. One of the two dials was referred to as Fabri-Flex. | ||
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Post# 923584 , Reply# 5 2/24/2017 at 13:48 (2,611 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Thank you Bob,
I did a search on thoses years and found this thread. www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... The copper colored part behind the timer is the only difference I see. I don't know if the machine our neighbours had, had that or not. But both are close enough to my memories of the washer our neighbours had. | ||
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Post# 923589 , Reply# 6 2/24/2017 at 14:28 (2,611 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Luigi, attached is Jetcone's 1956 Filter-Flo. This is the washer that replaced the Bendix to keep me from opening the door and all the water going down the driveway. Ours looked exactly like this, but our model did not have the filter-flo. On the front of Jon's washer there's an identifying turquoise-backed script insignia declaring Filter-Flo. Our washer had the word Automatic in it. 
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Post# 923590 , Reply# 7 2/24/2017 at 14:32 (2,611 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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| Post# 923614 , Reply# 8 2/24/2017 at 16:44 (2,611 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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Post# 923618 , Reply# 9 2/24/2017 at 17:05 (2,611 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 923698 , Reply# 10 2/25/2017 at 03:06 (2,611 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Our neighbours had a white one so I guess I guess their washer was perhaps from before 1955. The pictures of the cadet blue one I must have found online.
I know of several households that had a GE washer and sometimes even a GE dryer. Our neighbours weren't well to do (they didn't even have a car for a long time) but I guess they found it important to have an automatic washer with so many children, important enough to buy an import machine. | ||
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Post# 923736 , Reply# 11 2/25/2017 at 09:50 (2,610 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.) |
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This WASHER IS NOT FROM BEFORE 1955 | ||
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Post# 923755 , Reply# 12 2/25/2017 at 12:50 (2,610 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 923775 , Reply# 13 2/25/2017 at 16:09 (2,610 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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The Center-dial GE Thank you for that picture. I am pretty sure that this is a 1953 model, WA-450K (although because of that chrome strip in the front and the slightly different RH control, it might be some non-catalog later model). I have never seen a GE washer in Cadet Blue; I've seen parts sheets that list cabinet pieces in that color so I assumed they existed somewhere, but now it's documented.
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Post# 923833 , Reply# 14 2/26/2017 at 04:13 (2,610 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Thank you Ken for adding to my memories about that machine. They had a huge flow through water heater to have it filled. As a child I was fascinated by this machine because it was much bigger and totally different than the washing machines I knew. Short before we moved in 1975 it was replaced with a European washing machine, also a toploader, a Ruton (Philips) Slimstar.
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Post# 923834 , Reply# 15 2/26/2017 at 04:45 (2,610 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Hi Louis,
Found this great AW thread on a 1955 GE set. Great pictures! CLICK HERE TO GO TO Ultramatic's LINK | ||
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Post# 923836 , Reply# 16 2/26/2017 at 05:08 (2,610 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 923842 , Reply# 17 2/26/2017 at 06:07 (2,610 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Oops! | ||
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Post# 923862 , Reply# 18 2/26/2017 at 07:24 (2,610 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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