Thread Number: 72841
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Dreaming of NORGE WASHER are any around? |
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Post# 962419   10/14/2017 at 08:09 (2,357 days old) by Paulwash (Niagara Falls New York)   |   | |
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Years ago in the early 1980's I went to my best friends house and of course I had to know what kind of washing machine was in his basement. Well his Aunt came over with four big bags of dirty clothes and I noticed his mom and aunt went downstairs in the basement.. They asked us to run to the corner store for to buy a box of Rinso detergent and clorox bleach. Well I ran lol. We returned an I heard this loud washer running making a burp noise and washing hard!! The closer I got I noticed it was this exact machine and the matching dryer was on the other side of the basement. His mom thanked us and took the Rinso out of my hand opened it up and poured some in the Norge!! Well they went upstairs while we rode bikes in partially finished basement but I heard that washer go through all the phases and the LOUD CLANK at the end. I never operated one of these but would love one I have used MANY washers in my life but NORGE is one of the last ones I need to use, have, and watch!! in person. Many more days I went to my buddys house who thought it was strange about me and the washer obsession but still loved me! That washer did not last too long.. His mother had the dryer fixed several times and the washer once.. she did use it a lot washing her sisters clothes who had two kids and her family of three. I remember his father and his friend put them out to the trash out in the front of his house after they broke down! His mom bought a Hotpoint set in harvest gold 1986 model and had them put in her kitchen this time. She must have liked washers with loud breaks LOL. I asked her years later about that washer because she knows I like to wash clothes and surprisingly she said she had that washer and dryer after getting married in 1974 at her first apartment which had four sets of washers and dryers in the basement due to being a four family apartment building. She was pregnant with my best friend and was afraid to go three flights down to the basement in the apartment building unless her husband was home she said the basement creeped her out lol Later they bought a house and took them with her Anyone now how I can get one of these let me know. I will take Montgomery Ward, Magic Chef, NORGE. Thanks.
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Post# 962423 , Reply# 1   10/14/2017 at 08:22 (2,357 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 962428 , Reply# 2   10/14/2017 at 08:28 (2,357 days old) by Paulwash (Niagara Falls New York)   |   | |
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Post# 962440 , Reply# 3   10/14/2017 at 09:07 (2,357 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 962470 , Reply# 4   10/14/2017 at 11:08 (2,357 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 962474 , Reply# 5   10/14/2017 at 11:56 (2,357 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)   |   | |
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Post# 962477 , Reply# 6   10/14/2017 at 12:27 (2,357 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 962594 , Reply# 7   10/14/2017 at 20:41 (2,357 days old) by Losangeles (Muscle Shoals, AL 35661)   |   | |
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A good friend of my mothers had a Norge Automatic with a timeline timer control. She was the only person that indulged my deep interest in washing machines. She would let me watch it thru a complete cycle anytime I was at her house. What a good time and memories. Are there any Norge Timeline machines out there. I would love to have one. Anybody selling? |
Post# 962595 , Reply# 8   10/14/2017 at 20:42 (2,357 days old) by Paulwash (Niagara Falls New York)   |   | |
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Post# 962600 , Reply# 9   10/14/2017 at 20:58 (2,357 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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EVER MADE..NORGE! |
Post# 962663 , Reply# 10   10/15/2017 at 08:34 (2,356 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Think something like this would be fun to have!
Surely when I'd visited my then-local Montgomery Ward, (before it, & that mall it was in, had been long-torn down) among the GE's, Maytags and Firgidaires, I had to have considered the MW-branded machines, when I was contemplating my first house & appliance purchase, though only at the tender age of Nine-Teen! I was put off by the tremendous water-usage, and the unbalanced load-ratings cited in CONSUMER REPORTS, and somehow leaned on a dislike towards them, preferring the WCI brands, which to me, seemed more worthy (though Gibson & Kelvinator, seemed better rated vs. Frigidaire & White-Westinghouse, with their high water consumption & other frailties, outweighing the other two that were mainly rated Average) even stacked up against the better Whirlpool, Kenmore, GE, Hotpoint, and Maytag... Looking back, the Norge (or its Ward's clone) surely would have been the one I'd chosen, in washer--and dryer--form, for my 1st laundry... -- Dave |
Post# 962696 , Reply# 12   10/15/2017 at 12:41 (2,356 days old) by Losangeles (Muscle Shoals, AL 35661)   |   | |
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Post# 962699 , Reply# 13   10/15/2017 at 12:54 (2,356 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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is White Consolidated Industries. Owned by AB Electrolux today of Sweden. First Westinghouse, then aquired brands as they became defunct or under their unmbrella. Frigidaire in 1976, Admiral, then Gibson, Kelvinator, Tappan. |
Post# 962711 , Reply# 14   10/15/2017 at 13:59 (2,356 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 962715 , Reply# 15   10/15/2017 at 14:09 (2,356 days old) by agiflow2 ()   |   | |
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Fedders did a pretty good job with Norge. The washer we had was a tank. |
Post# 962722 , Reply# 16   10/15/2017 at 15:30 (2,356 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 962724 , Reply# 17   10/15/2017 at 15:47 (2,356 days old) by nmassman44 (Brooksville Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 962726 , Reply# 18   10/15/2017 at 16:12 (2,356 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 962836 , Reply# 21   10/16/2017 at 08:59 (2,355 days old) by Losangeles (Muscle Shoals, AL 35661)   |   | |
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Thank you for the lesson in used abbreviations. I will continue my search for the Norge of my dreams. I am also looking for Unimatics built by GM or any washing machine that has a non-neutral drain/spin. I really like the drama of a spin taking off with a full load of water and detergent/rinse water. The faster the better. Thanks again, Tommy |
Post# 962906 , Reply# 22   10/16/2017 at 17:08 (2,355 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 963017 , Reply# 25   10/17/2017 at 14:25 (2,354 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)   |   | |
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Just picked this up a couple months ago -- pristine condition. Circa 1975ish. And that's a newer Wards model in the upper left...probably 1985ish..? Still makes the same great sounds and comes complete with burp-a-lator agitator! Am planning to get my washroom set up this Winter so I can hook them up.
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Post# 963025 , Reply# 26   10/17/2017 at 15:29 (2,354 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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