Thread Number: 74206
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 26/01/2018 - Philco-Bendix W-284N 2-speed TL, Duomatic & DE-624 "Wrinkle-Free" dryer |
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Post# 979973 , Reply# 1   1/26/2018 at 08:30 (2,253 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Great question. The ad in the POD is from 1958, which IMO is a really strange time for Philco-Bendix. The appliance division of both companies were in their first year of merger. Philco kept their ball point agitator washer for one more year (shown in the POD), and the Bendix portion of things kept the 36" Duo AND the Gyromatic but in '58 had dropped the Power Surge TL washer. I've only seen drawings of the '58 Gyromatics in either ads or the back of user manuals, but the parts books do list a few different Gyro models for the '58 year.
By '59 the Gyro was gone, the 36" Duo was gone, the Philco ball point agitator washer was gone, and the revised Duo and '56 Power Surge based, high frequency TL washers were introduced. From the beginning up until the end in '67/'68, all front load US Bendix washers tumbled in one direction - clockwise. Ben
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Post# 979974 , Reply# 2   1/26/2018 at 08:34 (2,253 days old) by mopar65 (Almont MI)   |   | |
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Post# 979985 , Reply# 3   1/26/2018 at 10:19 (2,253 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)   |   | |
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Condensing? Interesting - I'd been told the 30" Bendix dryers were vented. I know the Frigidaires of that era were condensing. |
Post# 979986 , Reply# 4   1/26/2018 at 10:32 (2,253 days old) by mopar65 (Almont MI)   |   | |
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