Thread Number: 73205
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 966979   11/9/2017 at 08:01 (2,331 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)   |   | |
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Good heavens! A Frigidaire after it was raped, pillaged, and plundered by WCI! Sacrilege! |
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Post# 966984 , Reply# 1   11/9/2017 at 08:46 (2,331 days old) by programcomputer (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)   |   | |
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Actually, one cringes when open the POD and it happens to be this. It just makes one feel like they have been betrayed over and over again. Must have been that way for thousands of former Frigi' owners , when they went to replace their earlier (pre-1979) machines and saw....this dreadful, dual action, swish swasher. That smelled of the blood of Westinghouse...
Have been doing quite the work on uncovering and learning about WCI's rise to power, and it's doings with purchasing APEX Elect.Mfg. in the late 1950's. And it's short time as White-Apex, before becoming White Consolidated Industries in 1964. One thing is certain, Edward Reddig and his policies were draconian, brutal, for the most part unnecessary; and forever changed the appliance business. Easy, Gibson, Kelvinator, Franklin and of course Westinghouse and then Frigidaire all were stripped, spanked/beaten until barely alive, and then parted out or off, to "save money". Many just becoming a name of their former shells. Of course, WCI got it's due later. It became the "whipping post" of the Electrolux group. And from what I've discovered, they had happen to them, what they did to the earlier tragedies. They were stripped bare, spanked in the middle of the town square, and parted off afterwards much to a similar degree... Chad |
Post# 966992 , Reply# 3   11/9/2017 at 09:22 (2,331 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 966996 , Reply# 4   11/9/2017 at 09:37 (2,331 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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What is interesting about this picture of the day is that the bottom-of-the-line model was a different mechanism than the rest. If you read the specifications, Model "WH" had a wider, slower agitation stroke and a higher spin speed (620 rpm vs. 515)
The control panel was a different design also. If this "WH" model was not a Westinghouse clone in a Frigidaire cabinet, one wonders what it was. Anyone know? |
Post# 967018 , Reply# 8   11/9/2017 at 11:59 (2,331 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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And soon Speed Queen won't have a truly traditional top-loader.
So, the ad copy says the water from the lint filter will prevent billowing? HA! The anemic flow of water from that filtering system would do nothing of the kind. I had a 1986 (or '87) Frigidaire top-loader with the circle spray fill found on 1-18's. Now THAT helped prevent billowing. The water from the filter wasn't powerful enough to handle the job. |
Post# 967048 , Reply# 13   11/9/2017 at 15:52 (2,331 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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Post# 967060 , Reply# 16   11/9/2017 at 18:03 (2,330 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Rich, that BOL washer model would have been of the Franklin design. I remember this one in the stores at the time, had a gold-brown basket, smaller than it's sister machines in the line. The agitator was a black straight vane instead of white. I believe they also made this nearly identical BOL machine for many of their brands and for house brands like MW as well.
WCI used both the Westinghouse washer platform for Frigidaire, Wards, White-Westinghouse, etc. and continued the Franklin platform for brands like Gibson, Gambles-Coronado, Kelvinator, etc. WCI also kept two dryer designs running for a time as well. Eventually, the Westy style platforms were abandoned in favor of the Franklin style for all the brands around the mid-late 80's. I bought a Frigidaire washer at Mont. Wards in '90 that had was a Franklin plastic basket style. |
Post# 967126 , Reply# 21   11/10/2017 at 07:36 (2,330 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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