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Here it is - The Great New Maytag Automatic Washer
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Post# 957586   9/14/2017 at 21:09 (2,387 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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A big thank you goes out to Ben who lent me this adorable guide to ad to the Ephemera Library. It was produced when Maytag introduced their very first automatic washer in the late 1940's. This was given to dealers and service personnel to introduce Maytag's very first automatic washer. It contains adorable mid-century style illustrations describing the new machine in great detail. Explains how it works, what the cycle does and how to take it apart and troubleshoot any issue.





Post# 957593 , Reply# 1   9/14/2017 at 22:42 (2,387 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)        

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I have always loved Maytag washers and dryers for a long time. It all started with the memories of my mother's old 1997 Maytag Depedable Care washer. The old Maytags clean better than those HE Washing Machines, and they were built to last forever. If Maytag didn't build those Neptune front loaders, and did not cheapen up on their products in the early 2000's, Maytag would still be Maytag, and would be still making quality products.

Here is a picture of my Maytag A810 washer and DG810 gas dryer.


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Post# 957598 , Reply# 2   9/15/2017 at 00:55 (2,387 days old) by Helicaldrive (St. Louis)        
They had already started

Cheapening their products by 1990 when I bought my first ones. There was no comparison between those and the 1976 models I grew up with.

Post# 957604 , Reply# 3   9/15/2017 at 02:54 (2,387 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)        

There wasn't much wrong with the Neptune design that couldn't have been fixed with some better quality control and sensible maintenance (i.e. leave the door open to air out after each use, clean the rubber boot with an antiseptic cleaner every once in a while). They wash well - the old top-loaders were OK if you didn't overload them and the clothes weren't heavily soiled, but 12 minutes' wash and only one deep rinse (especially with the heavy-sudsing detergents of the time) was barely adequate, and the A810 was an outdated dinosaur by the time it was finally discontinued. Sales of top-loading agitator washers this side of the Atlantic plummeted in the 1980s, and the last one made here was discontinued in the early 90s. The American stuff (Maytag, Whirlpool) became a tiny marginal player in the market, only stocked by small independent shops and generally only available to order. The kind of places that used to be the last bastion of the top-loader (hotels, care homes, equestrian stables) largely moved to large front-loaders by the likes of Miele.

Post# 957637 , Reply# 4   9/15/2017 at 08:14 (2,386 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        
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YAY - I'm glad this really neat brochure made the honors of being archived in AE.org! Certainly one of the more unique and odd, very early Maytag lit I have found over the years, for the introduction of the AMP.

What is also interesting is the copyright date is 1948. I wish we had a better idea of the official date the AMP was introduced in 1949.

Ben


Post# 957638 , Reply# 5   9/15/2017 at 08:16 (2,386 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)        
Gosh!

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What a fun read! Thanks, Ben and Robert!


Post# 957639 , Reply# 6   9/15/2017 at 08:41 (2,386 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)        
Maytag, by the late '70s

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Was suffering from the same problems as all American companies - screw the workers, screw the customers, short term profit is all that counts.

I remember the difference in customer service between Toyota and GM back then. Alternator went out in my Toyota. Had just over 200,000K on it. Toyota replaced it, no charge and apologized for it failing.

Our Buick was on it's third water pump, the transmission had already locked up and been replaced once and we were still under warranty...not even 10,000 MILES.

 

To be sure, Whirlpool and Maytag of that era were still far better machines than what was to come. And, yes, Neptune was FUBAR. The arrogance of Maytag to not pay attention to what the Europeans had done since the 1950s was unpardonable - and it ultimately killed the company. Maytag today is nothing but a hot Maytag Man and gussied up Roper/Estate.


Post# 957651 , Reply# 7   9/15/2017 at 11:48 (2,386 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)        
GM workers

before the big strike in the mid 70's were deliberately sabotaging transmissions.
My friends dad's failed on his Buick Sportwagon also. He told us his dealer told him that.
Sabotage is wrong. Unhappy buyers go elsewhere. Satisfy the customer. The union negotiators see the company books. The better the bottom line, the better the contract they can negotiate. Two way street.

Before I became a manager at my company, my boss told me all the company owes me is an honest days pay for an honest days work, no benefits, no paid time off, no contract, no perks. If you want those, you become a manager.
I asked him if he felt that way before he was one. No reply. He hated the union, but was in it also once.
Of course I disagree'd with him. Those who do the grunt labor are just as important to any company.
This was during the Reagan years of union concessions. He bough Subaru's, even though the dollar had surpassed the Yen in 1984, and bought more car made stateside. This was before Subaru built the Indiana plant of course.
He said it was worth every dollar because it wouldn't fall apart. I informed him that US automakers were buying cheap Japanese steel which had rusted on the way across the ocean, so the poor quality wasn't all the fault of the unions and labor.
We all got what we paid for. Companies wanted cheap labor, so they outsourced. When we were buying foreign, the money went off shore.
That led to a decline in the average standard of living, so many spend less today because they don't bring it home. It's a two way street.
If you pay people well, and provide good benefits and they have quality lesiure time to regroup, they are happier. They spend more back into the economy.


Post# 957653 , Reply# 8   9/15/2017 at 12:00 (2,386 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)        
Shortly there after;

I had learned that same manager was fired for a rather substantial sum of cash missing from his stores safe.
This was of course decades prior to the Enron scandal in Texas, etc., etc.
Crooked people, crooked politics, greed, omnipotence, power hunger, intrinsic false superiority are all a recipe for a dystopian society.



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