Thread Number: 20909
Is Amana made by Speed Queen? |
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Post# 331397 , Reply# 2   2/20/2009 at 13:01 (5,541 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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I thought that when Raytheon sold off Amana & Speed Queen Alliance Laundry bought only the Speed Queen brand and the Amana brand went to Maytag. Could somebody review what happened again, please? |
Post# 331398 , Reply# 3   2/20/2009 at 13:01 (5,541 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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But these Amanas look like they were built during the Raytheon days. |
Post# 331419 , Reply# 4   2/20/2009 at 14:42 (5,541 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Posted the long drawn out story before,when this topic was brought up several months (or weeks)ago, over the same machines IIRC. Long story short, Alliance got much if not all of the patents and such for Raytheon's commercial and domestic laundry equipment (Amana and Speed Queen), from Raytheon, with a proviso that they stay out of the domestic laundry market for "X" amount of years. Alliance in turn allowed whomever owned Amana (not sure if Maytag got them first from Raytheon), to use certian patents and such under license from those brands. This was how "Amana" was allowed to continue to build the same washing machines built on the "Raytheon" designs. And is also why Maytag began crying foul when Alliance supposedly jumped the gun and re-entered the domestic laundry market. IIRC, Speed Queen in the United States was mainly Raytheon's commercial laundry line, and Amana models were if not domestic versions, were based in most cases on SQ designs. So when Raytheon sold off it's laundry divisions, Alliance continued to make SQ but only for the commercial market, while Maytag had Amana machines (based on Raytheon's designs/patents), for domestic sales. Again the whole story is in the group archives. |
Post# 331437 , Reply# 6   2/20/2009 at 16:48 (5,541 days old) by jaytag (Atlanta)   |   | |
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Hello there, it is Jaytag. Yes this is my listing. Made under contract for Amana by Speed Queen. |
Post# 331443 , Reply# 7   2/20/2009 at 17:21 (5,541 days old) by phamq ()   |   | |
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Hi Jaytag: I guess you sold them since the posting is deleted. It's probably a good deal so it is gone fast. |
Post# 331457 , Reply# 9   2/20/2009 at 19:35 (5,541 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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I had bad luck with mine, center seal leak. :-( |
Post# 331481 , Reply# 12   2/21/2009 at 00:21 (5,541 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Yes, angus i remember appnut posted of your plight similar to mine. Even back then it was enough money to make One want to pitch it through CC's window, ahhh maybe karhma got CC :-) |
Post# 331518 , Reply# 14   2/21/2009 at 08:37 (5,540 days old) by queeny77 (BERWYN, ILLINOIS)   |   | |
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the goodman made amanas were called "perfect balace",you can tell them by the plain white control panel and stainless decal,instead of the control panel with the little green specks like in the photo.the machine in the photo has the bigger opening lid so it would have the newer grey tub ring insted of the older white one.speed queen has kept this design of the lid and tub ring only now it is white.
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Post# 331611 , Reply# 15   2/21/2009 at 22:07 (5,540 days old) by kenmorepeter01 ()   |   | |
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Have any some more of the photos for the washer machines and any some machines at American Laundry? Peter (kenmorepeter01) ;-) |