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Post# 518785   5/18/2011 at 09:42 (4,698 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 518792 , Reply# 1   5/18/2011 at 10:19 (4,698 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Why does he think it's gas? Was it a 120 volt model or wired for that? The first Westinghouse gas dryer I ever saw was a straight front model paired with the Easy-made top loader. They were coin-op machines at a motel in Florida in the Summer of 1963. |
Post# 518795 , Reply# 2   5/18/2011 at 10:40 (4,698 days old) by syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD)   |   | |
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...no gas dryers that I know of from this era , or this design- period- not until the 60's the sellers are mistaken.... |
Post# 518912 , Reply# 5   5/18/2011 at 18:33 (4,698 days old) by 3beltwesty ()   |   | |
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Post# 518928 , Reply# 6   5/18/2011 at 19:45 (4,698 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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WH introduced thier first gas models with the move to 27" wide laundry machines across the line in 1964. GE introduced gas dryers in 1965 and called them Premier instead GE but they looked like GEs and matched the GE washers, Frigidare had a full line of gas dryers with the 1961 models.
I believe that these three laundry manufacturers were the last to add gas dryers to thier full line up, does anyone else know of any I forgot?. |
Post# 518934 , Reply# 7   5/18/2011 at 19:59 (4,698 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 518938 , Reply# 8   5/18/2011 at 20:16 (4,698 days old) by syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD)   |   | |
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...that there were no WESTINGHOUSE gas dryers of that design till the 60's ...golly, my plate is full of crow sorry |
Post# 518940 , Reply# 9   5/18/2011 at 20:41 (4,698 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 518942 , Reply# 11   5/18/2011 at 20:48 (4,698 days old) by syndets2000 (Nanjemoy, MD)   |   | |
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...I am wondering what the design of it looked like- would the heat get blown in through the dryer, or would it get sucked out ( Am I making sense? ) |
Post# 518956 , Reply# 12   5/18/2011 at 22:11 (4,698 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 518966 , Reply# 13   5/18/2011 at 22:41 (4,698 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 519391 , Reply# 14   5/20/2011 at 20:58 (4,696 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)   |   | |
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Post# 519443 , Reply# 16   5/21/2011 at 01:01 (4,696 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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You have to think like Westinghouse back then, and earlier. The only reason they made appliances in the first place was to spread consumption of electricity. Their REAL business, and the last of theirs to die when they lost control of themselves in the 90s, was generation and distribution apparatus. Think of it as building vacation destinations because you owned an airline. OK, skewed analogy. But the more stuff they could make electricity do, the more generation and distribution machinery they could sell. That was the REALLY expensive stuff. It still is today. The electric supply is the most heavily capitalized industry in the world.
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