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Westinghouse electric slant front dryer/square window!
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Post# 279643   5/12/2008 at 16:04 (5,824 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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Westinghouse on ebay has an item #290229160745 that is an older (1959?)electric dryer that looks brand new! Asking $500+100 shipping to U.S.Somebody please save it!!!




Post# 279648 , Reply# 1   5/12/2008 at 16:34 (5,824 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        

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Post# 279672 , Reply# 2   5/12/2008 at 18:49 (5,824 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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wow...I've never have seen that model....it looks like a 1958 door on a 1953 machine

Post# 279692 , Reply# 3   5/12/2008 at 19:35 (5,824 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
+100 shipping...

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in the fine print they state shipping charges are covered by the buyer, but she is a beauty!

Post# 279710 , Reply# 4   5/12/2008 at 20:19 (5,824 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada)        
too much

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I'd like this dryer and it's only a 30 minute drive from here.... but that's more than I want to spend.

Post# 279811 , Reply# 5   5/13/2008 at 09:37 (5,823 days old) by westyslantfront ()        

Hi Edward. Wait and see if the dryer sells on Ebay. If not, perhaps you can make an offer to the seller after the auction ends.

Ross


Post# 279841 , Reply# 6   5/13/2008 at 14:24 (5,823 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        
Beautiful Westinghouse Dryer

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I may be able to pusuade them to lower the price using a little "child psychology"and tell them my great aunt had the same model and she was my favorite.She'd wash my teddy bear and put it in the dryer telling me when it's finnished doing summer saults,it's done.But I can't afford the asking price.Would you take $$$???That sometimes works for me.

Post# 279845 , Reply# 7   5/13/2008 at 14:44 (5,823 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Isn't this machine a 1957 or 1958 middle of the line machine? It's been suggested to me via email that this machine was "hacked", but I don't think so.

Post# 279848 , Reply# 8   5/13/2008 at 14:54 (5,823 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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It doesn't look "hacked to me.I just believe it was not a popular model.They would normaly sell either the beginner models or the top of the line back then when clothes dryers were eithe not that popular or too expensive.

Post# 279863 , Reply# 9   5/13/2008 at 15:08 (5,823 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I looked through several Westinghouse catalogs & service doctrine last night and couldn't find this particular model, but I think you're right - a MOL model.

Post# 279865 , Reply# 10   5/13/2008 at 15:10 (5,823 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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What about those ribs underneath the door????? I don't remember those on the mid 50s models, only on the earlier models. Again, I'm not sure what to think.

Post# 279876 , Reply# 11   5/13/2008 at 15:41 (5,823 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH)        

I think it could be a Canadian-built machine. I've seen ads on eBay for what appear to be Canadian-made Westinghouse appliances from the '50s, and for whatever reason, there were "deviations" from the similar American-made models.

Post# 280082 , Reply# 12   5/14/2008 at 14:51 (5,822 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Those Canadians!

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Always Deviating!
Remember the Mercury Meteor???? A Monterey in disguise!


Post# 280147 , Reply# 13   5/14/2008 at 20:42 (5,822 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada)        
deviating, eh??

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Jon, I had a Meteor and what a huge car that was. Prepared me for my future bus driving job.

Post# 280201 , Reply# 14   5/15/2008 at 06:09 (5,822 days old) by easyspindry (Winston-Salem, NC)        

It looks to me like the dials on that particular Westinghouse dryer are not original. There's just something in that picture that doesn't ring true.

Just my first impression.

Jerry Gay


Post# 280216 , Reply# 15   5/15/2008 at 08:15 (5,822 days old) by norgenocker ()        
Meteors and Monarchs

The Meteor started out as the Mercury 114--basically a 114"-wheelbase Ford with Mercury grille, later with Merc dash etc--something cheaper for Canadian Lincoln-Mercury dealers to sell. Then for something ritzier for Ford dealers there was the Monarch--a Mercury with revised trim--all the car manufacturers had these kinds of variations, something to do with trade restrictions, I think. There was even a mishmash of a Plymouth and a Dodge referred to in jest as a "Plodge"-- so oddball appliances may have been the result of similar trade restrictions--this Westy does seem strange, older body with newer door.


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