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Post# 275169   4/14/2008 at 23:56 (5,827 days old) by dirtybuck (Springfield, MO)        

In what year was the last and final GM Frigidaire washer rolled off the assembly line?

I remember when Silo appliance stores were still around in '86, going with a friend of mine so he could purchase a TV. I went over and looked at the washers, saw a Frigidaire, and lifted the lid, and kinda GASPED!! Where was the patented up and down agitator? This one had a back and forth one on it. I thought that maybe GM had done away with it, and now had a different mode of agitation, just like everyone else.

BUT...the shocker came when I didn't see the legendary "Made by General Motors" on the front of the washer after I put the lid back down. The salesmen were all busy with other people, so I couldn't ask anyone about when they had (White-Westinghouse) acquired Frigidaire, so I let the issue drop.

Seems to me that Westinghouse has fallen by the wayside right after they bought out GM/Frigidaire, and they took a good name with it. How sad. :(





Post# 275170 , Reply# 1   4/15/2008 at 00:13 (5,827 days old) by scott55405 ()        

I believe the GM Frigidaire products breathed their last sometime in 1979 or early 1980. I didn't learn about it until the mid 1980s either, in much the same, nauseating way you experienced.

Reading my local papers lately, I've noticed a number of places are advertising Electrolux appliances, Electrolux being the successor to White Consolidated Industries. Now I'm wondering if this means the Frigidaire name is breathing its last altogether.


Post# 275184 , Reply# 2   4/15/2008 at 03:54 (5,826 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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No.Thanks to their great success in revitalising and continuing design and sales improvements,FRIGIDAIRE has in their own way rezapped their popularity.Electrolux sees that and has generated their own name for a "higher level"of more expensive products for the kitchen under the big "E"label.Sort of the same as Whirlpool's handling of the KitchenAid and JennAir product lines.


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