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Thread Number: 74418
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
RCA matched set by WESTINGHOUSE? |
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Post# 982193 , Reply# 1 2/10/2018 at 17:52 (2,259 days old) by RP2813  (Sannazay) |
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 RCA and Whirlpool went hand in hand for many years, but I've never known them to have any affiliation with Westinghouse. The slanted consoles look very Whirlpool, but the controls do resemble Westinghouse. I don't know who might own RCA anymore, so anything is possible, I guess.
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| Post# 982200 , Reply# 2 2/10/2018 at 18:11 (2,259 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
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Post# 982229 , Reply# 3 2/10/2018 at 23:49 (2,259 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 982231 , Reply# 4 2/11/2018 at 00:11 (2,259 days old) by vintagekenmore (Spokane, Washington) | ||
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My sister had an RCA washer that was very much along the lines of a GE Filter Flo. She bought it new and got a good 8 years out of it before passing it down to my niece for her first home. It lasted another 3 years after that | ||
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Post# 982233 , Reply# 5 2/11/2018 at 00:16 (2,259 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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Post# 982286 , Reply# 6 2/11/2018 at 10:08 (2,259 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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This is Canada. Everything's different up there. After RCA and Whirlpool split (late 60s), RCA still needed an appliance line (to help their dealers fill out their showrooms). They were relatively limited, though, to the companies manufacturing up there...which in those days were only 4: Inglis, GE, Westinghouse in Hamilton, and GSW (probably using the Easy mechanism). They'd just split from Inglis, GE wasn't in the picture yet (that was early 80s in the US). so they could go with either Westinghouse or GSW. I think that the stores up there (the Bay and Eatons) had lined up behind GE and GSW, so that left only Westinghouse as an option with a relatively full line and no pesky associations with competitors.
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| Post# 982601 , Reply# 7 2/13/2018 at 08:20 (2,257 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
I have the Canadian RCA service manuals from most of the 1960s and 1970s.
RCA went from Inglis-made appliances (originally badged as RCA Whirlpool, then RCA Victor and RCA) to Westinghouse for it's complete appliance lineup in 1971. I have sent to Robert the 1975 Canadian RCA catalog and it's available for download here, note that they kept the Custom and Supreme names from previous models but their top-of-the-line models were now branded as "Ultra": www.automatice.org/cgi-bin/index.... | ||
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