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Thread Number: 20021
Westinghouse laundromat in Europe?! |
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| Post# 320227 , Reply# 1 12/18/2008 at 03:40 (5,601 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth) | ||
Nothing to say there was any in Italy. It could simply be just a "Stock" Picture or Photo. Many companies dont employ someone to just sit down and draw pictures to decorate their leaflets. They have a company do it for them and they will have a selection of graphics which they can use themselves. Its highly likely and possible they just used an American or Canadian picture drawn by an artist who does just that for a living. Especially as its not advertising a particular machine as a universal symbol which most people can relate to. Perhaps had it been a real italian photo taken in an italian kitchen with italian wares and the such then you could question the machines existance in italy but a simple basic illustration dosnt really point to any evidence. Such illustrations happen all over the world. Rob | ||
Post# 320229 , Reply# 2 12/18/2008 at 04:50 (5,601 days old) by chestermikeuk  (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Westinghouse Sloping Fronts...!!
Hi Gabriel, they where certainly exported & sold here in the UK so every chance they could have been custom imported to Italy and Europe as well!!! I have a 60`s / 70`s copy of Good Housekeeping magazine which has a feature on the singer Adam Faith, it show a full suite of Westinghouse products, sloping washer & dryer, Westinghouse sink with built in dishwasher, and oven & hob, quite futuristic back then... Perhaps Diomede might be able to advise!!! happy searching, Mike 
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| Post# 320231 , Reply# 3 12/18/2008 at 05:18 (5,601 days old) by candyrijk () | ||
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FIAT In the past, these machine were sold by Fiat. A friend of mine has got the washer, which is the same model as Westinghouse in US. Ric. 
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| Post# 320234 , Reply# 4 12/18/2008 at 05:54 (5,601 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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FIAT?! Unbeliavable! Do you have a bigger picture :) I'm so curious now! What time were they sold? And when FIAT did stop producing appliances? | ||
| Post# 320261 , Reply# 5 12/18/2008 at 10:06 (5,601 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH) | ||
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any possibility you could post that Westinghouse/Adam Faith ad? (his song "It's Alright" was a hit in the U.S. during the 60's "British Invasion" era (it was also one of my favorite songs at the time). | ||
| Post# 320271 , Reply# 6 12/18/2008 at 11:23 (5,601 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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Fiat? As in The Agnelli Family? Interesting! Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
| Post# 320285 , Reply# 7 12/18/2008 at 13:20 (5,601 days old) by candyrijk () | ||
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yes... FIAT Yes, Fiat in the past ('50-'60) used to sell also appliances, like stoves, fridges and... laundromats! Fridge advertising: E-Bay obj. n° 160251295960 Laundromat advertising: E-bay oby. n° 200287594458 Ric. 
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Post# 320322 , Reply# 9 12/18/2008 at 17:06 (5,600 days old) by intuitive (Inner West, Sydney Australia. ) |
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FIAT.... We have a nicname for FIAT in Australia Fix It Again Tony They have a shocking return/ repair record!!! FORD isnt much better Fix Or Repair Daily | ||
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Post# 320323 , Reply# 10 12/18/2008 at 17:08 (5,600 days old) by intuitive (Inner West, Sydney Australia. ) |
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Wesinghouse Slant fronts... we had laundromats in Sydney fully stocked with Westy slant fronts... they always reminded me of cement mixers slowly sloshing ..... never seemed to spin very fast. I always tried to use the Miele at the end of the row! | ||
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Post# 320334 , Reply# 11 12/18/2008 at 18:40 (5,600 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Don't know why it is so hard to believe US companines allowed overseas companies to produce their goods under license. Ya think the process was invented recently? Westinghouse and others had little to loose and much to gain. After all pre and even post WWII major appliances were just that, and cost dear. Shipping and transportation being what it was then, it certianly would have been much cheaper to allow any European company to produce rather than import. There were factories all over Europe and the UK remember. If there weren't there hardly wouldn't have been a huge war, now would there? After the war, countries all over Europe had to rebuild and get on, which was the perfect time to get people out of the "old ways" of doing things and into modern appliances. It may be hard to comprehend,but in many places on that side of the pond, food still went rancid for lack of modern refrigeration, and women still did laundry at worst, the traditional way, and at best with semi-automatic washers. | ||
| Post# 320344 , Reply# 12 12/18/2008 at 19:18 (5,600 days old) by sudsman () | ||
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This is widely done in commerical equiptment today. Washers, Dryers, Flatwork Ironers, Drycleaning Machines and Laundry and Drycleaning presses are done that way even today. Nothing new about it at all. | ||
| Post# 320420 , Reply# 13 12/19/2008 at 04:50 (5,600 days old) by dj-gabriele () | ||
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hahah, I love the acronym for FIAT! :D And figures, Altroconsumo, even rated the new 500 the best compact car on the market today :) Thanks for the info! | ||
| Post# 320624 , Reply# 14 12/20/2008 at 14:26 (5,599 days old) by candyrijk () | ||
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... another. Ric. 
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Post# 320631 , Reply# 15 12/20/2008 at 15:08 (5,598 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 320657 , Reply# 16 12/20/2008 at 22:03 (5,598 days old) by toggleswitch2 () | ||
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~FORD isn't much better variation Found On Road, Dead | ||
| Post# 320691 , Reply# 17 12/21/2008 at 06:06 (5,598 days old) by hilovane (Columbus OH) | ||
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FORD stands for First On Race Day (last to the finish line) | ||
| Post# 321090 , Reply# 18 12/23/2008 at 15:13 (5,595 days old) by favorit () | ||
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FIAT fridge When my father had his first car in 1957 (a FIAT 500), he bought a Fiat fridge too. This was a very silent fridge and it did its duty till 1998 (41 years !!). Now it is in the garage with some other vintage stuff | ||
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