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Post# 335719   3/15/2009 at 20:24 (5,491 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)   |   | |
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Post# 335720 , Reply# 1   3/15/2009 at 20:34 (5,491 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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My gosh - thanks for posting. In the summer of '06 I went down to Newton the day the Maytag Store closed - huge bummer. I spent some time talking to the ladies who ran the Jasper County Museum. They had hopes of getting this machine donated to them once the time came. I haven't been down since - hopefully there will be a trip planned for this summer and the machine will be on display. Was this out at Plant 2? Ben CLICK HERE TO GO TO swestoyz's LINK |
Post# 335722 , Reply# 2   3/15/2009 at 20:49 (5,491 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 335743 , Reply# 3   3/15/2009 at 22:06 (5,491 days old) by tuthill ()   |   | |
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What a shame. LOL, you can tell those people weren't true washer fans... no money shot! |
Post# 335758 , Reply# 4   3/15/2009 at 23:46 (5,491 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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It's in the museum. The Jasper County Museum's Maytag display was disappointing but this last washer was there. As it should be. At the time, I thought some of us should offer to design their displays. That would be a fun weekend and we'd probably get to peruse the massive amount of company documentation and records. Just think of how cool it would be to build displays from that! |
Post# 335855 , Reply# 5   3/16/2009 at 16:34 (5,491 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Mike, how did you get a tour in '03? I wrote Maytag in '02, and asked about tours, because we were going to visit my sister in law in Boone, IA. and would be in the area. They told me there were NO tours of the Amana factory, in the Amana colonies, and the only tours at Newton were school groups, dealers, etc.
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Post# 336023 , Reply# 7   3/17/2009 at 19:37 (5,489 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)   |   | |
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The Maytag Rep that we had at the store set up the tour for me. Its something I'll never forget as a matter a fact a couple of the people in the pictures I talked to at the factory. I wanted to take pictures but back then no camera's were allowed. When I worked for a Maytag Home appliance center, my bosses mom worked at Maytag Headquarters, that is where she met her husband who was taking training to be a Maytag tech. Mike
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Post# 336064 , Reply# 8   3/17/2009 at 22:47 (5,489 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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Post# 336112 , Reply# 9   3/18/2009 at 10:29 (5,489 days old) by maytagmike (Burlington, Vt)   |   | |
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Post# 344093 , Reply# 11   4/22/2009 at 08:41 (5,454 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 344096 , Reply# 12   4/22/2009 at 08:52 (5,454 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent)   |   | |
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The commericial soft and hardmount washers are build in Tsjechië by PRIMUS, a belgian brand in professional laundry equipment. |
Post# 344101 , Reply# 13   4/22/2009 at 08:58 (5,454 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent)   |   | |
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The stacked dryers, besides the "small multple home laundry systems", aren't they build by the Alliance Laundry Group? |
Post# 344891 , Reply# 14   4/26/2009 at 09:19 (5,450 days old) by andrewinorlando ()   |   | |
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Yeah, if you read the machine's specs on the website, the commercial Maytags are "beltless, direct drive" machines. Whitltag. They just look like the old Maytag on the outside. |