This was the TOL for the first year that the Taylor Avenue Hotpoints had been assimilated into the Louisville GE Borg collective. The machine in the picture is 90% Filter-Flo (and would in 3 years become 99.9% ), save for the design of the control panel, the lid, the dispensing system and the feature spread. This machine was a very good value for it's time. GE was forced to resurrect its AW-6 design lint filtering system (which has the same mechanics as the Filter-flo; the only difference is instead of a plastic filter sitting on top of the agitator it's a plastic ring mounted around the washbasket where the clothes retaining ring would go) and this TOL featured 3 very effective dispensers for detergent, bleach and softener. Although the agitator looks like it's missing a cap, its the first iteration of the dual-agitator with a delicates agitator underneath the main one. This one is a strait-vane design which would become, in later years, a spiral ramped design. The many knobs comprise a number of features from the Hotpoint "Lady Executive" models which boasted adjustable soak and prewash cycles. I wouldn't mind having a pair of these, but I still covet those last Taylor Avenue Solid-tub Hotpoints. They may have been flawed, but so much fun to deconstruct and play with.

Tom, if you inspect the photograph closely, you can just make out the plastic rim of the lint filter in the dryer. I think it LOOKS like it's not there because of the lighting; because of the angle, nothing is bouncing off of the metal mesh in the filter and you can see straight through to the well underneath it.

Can anyone tell us all what the big plastic assembly in the lid is for? I'm guessing it's the off-balance, the agitator will strike it if way off center?