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Post# 148406   8/14/2006 at 16:00 (6,454 days old) by sudsman ()        

Wards sold a front load washer in the early 60s does anyone have any pics of these machines and who made them for wards they did not have the Westinghouse traits so I dont think it was them.. Also Easy made a front load for coin op did they make them for home use also.. does any one have pics of these too.. Thanks Sudsman




Post# 148408 , Reply# 1   8/14/2006 at 16:14 (6,454 days old) by easyspindry (Winston-Salem, NC)        

I remember Easy made a front load washer/dryer combo in the '50's, but not sure about the Wards. Most of the Wards machines were made by Norge, I think.

Jerry Gay

Post# 148409 , Reply# 2   8/14/2006 at 16:15 (6,454 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Post# 148511 , Reply# 3   8/15/2006 at 07:05 (6,453 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

There is a POD of an overly elaborate control panel for a Wards dryer. These were made by Westinghouse and were made in two sizes. The smaller of the two was based on the first Spacemate design. The washer and dryer were rated at an 8 pound capacity, I think and the washer had 3 vanes in the tub so it was not Philco. I don't know anything about the larger size machine. Maybe they were the prototype for the straight front WH machines introduced in 63 or 64. Wards used to sell Westinghouse washers under the Signature brand. They had a Combo based on the first Westinghouse Wash'n Dry Laundromat with the two red dials long after the WH combo had updated styling. Westinghouse also sold the Spacemate washer as a portable washer with a straight front and a drop down door.

These were the machines I saw in the funny store in Florida where we stopped to buy my spinning reel & fiberglass rod for salt water fishing. It must have been 1960 because my sister had not yet been born and she arrived in February, 1961. Since it was my present, I more or less had to stay close by, but I could see these weird straight front tumbler machines with wild control panels up the aisle and was only able to run up and get a glimpse of them before being called back and told that we had to leave. It was only seeing pictures of these machines later that identified the store as Wards for me. We did not have them in Georgia so it was the only time I was in one until 1976.

Post# 148635 , Reply# 4   8/15/2006 at 19:27 (6,453 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        
Toms right

 I won a few old mont ward catalogues off e bay, the signatures had the square front. IIRC, I know the POD with the westy and the money flying out of it is capitoned 1963, the slant front was a Westy trademark, and yes the combo is in the catalog but it DID have the Slant front like westy but was badged Signature. It sure was a different time than today.


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