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Post# 175487 , Reply# 1   12/14/2006 at 17:21 (6,314 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 175500 , Reply# 2   12/14/2006 at 17:46 (6,314 days old) by cny4 (Central New York)   |   | |
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Similar; the agitator was the same except it had a black twist top like the burpilators, but the controls were clear plastic. I think ours was slightly older than the Signature in your picture. |
Post# 175501 , Reply# 3   12/14/2006 at 17:49 (6,314 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 175564 , Reply# 4   12/14/2006 at 19:27 (6,314 days old) by cny4 (Central New York)   |   | |
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found similar in previous POD, this is similar to what we had, but no agitator lint filter, ours may have been a few years older. Does anyone have any idea what model year this ad is? I have yet to see the dryer we had, it was older than the washer. |
Post# 175567 , Reply# 5   12/14/2006 at 19:40 (6,314 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 175580 , Reply# 6   12/14/2006 at 20:22 (6,314 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 175593 , Reply# 7   12/14/2006 at 21:07 (6,314 days old) by exploder321 ()   |   | |
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I love the consoule... I love old ads as well... |
Post# 175632 , Reply# 8   12/14/2006 at 22:28 (6,314 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York)   |   | |
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I am guessing and giving this ad and model about 1963. We had a Norge in about 1966 and it was mostly buttons. Horrible machine for balance and bering wear, my father tells me. It was replaced in 1974 with a Maytag that's still is in use today. |
Post# 175645 , Reply# 9   12/14/2006 at 23:37 (6,314 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Philip, our Norge, brought home December 23, 1964, had 8 fabric buttons. Sounds like the one your family got in 1966 was of the VHQ (very high quality) line. Jmanman_96 has an avocado 1966 dryer that could be the match to your old washer. Our Norge had an accellerated end of life (1970) with help form me!! lol We didn't have much of a balance issue, as long as the mother didn't put sheeets & towel in together, then the buzzer went off just about every spin. She finally listened ot me, after being so frustrated, and quit that mixing habit lol.
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Post# 175814 , Reply# 11   12/15/2006 at 16:34 (6,313 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York)   |   | |
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I dunno, but the kid holding the dog in the picture with the grin on his face is showing penis clevage in his tighty whities. |
Post# 175831 , Reply# 12   12/15/2006 at 18:17 (6,313 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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cny4, Burplator filtering on Norges was the ay they filteerd the water for the later 1950s and early 1960s solid tub Norge washers. When they went to the perforated tub design, there was a recirculating filter. The ad above shows the recirulating filter taht was so much like a GE filter-flo. I honestly never saw a Norge like this. Now, go back and look at the montgomery wards signature15 brand washer & dryer set pictured above. The downward looking "spout" at 12 o'clock is not the water inlet. That's for the filter recirulation. The filter tray went underneath that spout and locked into place with that plastic-looking small rectangular type shape recepticle under that spout. The downward spout at 10 o'clock is the water inlet. Incidentally, those trays plastic tooth used to lock into that rectangular recepticle gradually wore out over time and would be thrown out inoto the washer tub from the vibration of tub while spinning. That's why there's no filter tray at the back. Long gone!!
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Post# 175848 , Reply# 14   12/15/2006 at 21:08 (6,313 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Check out the photos in my Yahoo album - these machines are from about 1967-68 (green) and 69-70 (brown)
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Post# 175853 , Reply# 15   12/15/2006 at 21:33 (6,313 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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So Greg, exactly what happened to that ultra-cool Wards set? I assume they're hooked up and still in regular service? ;-) *ducks and runs* |
Post# 175893 , Reply# 16   12/15/2006 at 23:15 (6,313 days old) by exploder321 ()   |   | |
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I wasn;t going to say anything about the kid holding the dog, and his cleavege..Only in the good ol ad's would ya see a young little girl w. no top and a young man like this |
Post# 175894 , Reply# 17   12/15/2006 at 23:26 (6,313 days old) by exploder321 ()   |   | |
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Greg I love the 69 Set, esp. the light on the control panel |
Post# 175895 , Reply# 18   12/15/2006 at 23:32 (6,313 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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That is a VERY good-looking washer in the POD ad shot. The console is much more advanced-looking than most of what was on the market at that time (I was, uh, there). I never could understand why Norge was always an also-ran. It was a brand people knew and respected, but they tended to buy other makes, for some reason. Whatever it was, it wasn't the styling; that washer looks five years ahead of most others of that time (around 1963, unless I miss my guess).
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Post# 175920 , Reply# 19   12/16/2006 at 02:23 (6,313 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 175948 , Reply# 20   12/16/2006 at 07:31 (6,312 days old) by cny4 (Central New York)   |   | |
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One reason Norge may have been an also ran is the noise. Our Wards version was noiser yet; easily the noiser washer I have ever heard. |
Post# 176091 , Reply# 21   12/16/2006 at 20:15 (6,312 days old) by exploder321 ()   |   | |
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I hope some one in Tucson has one...Which i think they do... Never have seen one "Live"... Can't wait |
Post# 176100 , Reply# 22   12/16/2006 at 20:33 (6,312 days old) by vintagesearch ()   |   | |
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it would be nice to see a video of one of those ;) maybe the brown one jiji |
Post# 176295 , Reply# 24   12/17/2006 at 16:12 (6,311 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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Post# 176360 , Reply# 26   12/17/2006 at 22:55 (6,311 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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Post# 176621 , Reply# 28   12/19/2006 at 09:16 (6,309 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Go into our Cyber Museum for Norge, and scroll to the right to see a list of videos of Robert's classic Norge and Burpilator action.
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Post# 176656 , Reply# 30   12/19/2006 at 11:08 (6,309 days old) by westytoploader ()   |   | |
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And here's said Burpalator in action... |
Post# 176778 , Reply# 31   12/19/2006 at 21:15 (6,309 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)   |   | |
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