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Thread Number: 37650
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Post# 560101 11/29/2011 at 06:47 (4,524 days old) by Frigilux  (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 560120 , Reply# 1 11/29/2011 at 08:42 (4,524 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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 Once upon a time, a Canadian company called GSW (General Steel Wares) had a line of appliances that grew to include McClary, Beatty, and Easy (Canadian production); that seemed to last until the late 1970s. Sometime in 1978 or 1979, a company called CAMCO (they built GE and Hotpoint appliances in Canada) gobbled up GSW's appliance operations and dropped the GSW and Easy appliance lines. From then on in, McClary appliances were pretty much Hotpoint clones and were considered as 'low-end' or 'budget' appliances. They weren't big on features, but they were decent and affordable!
The POD looks like it would be from the mid-70s when the Easy washers were like those made in the US. | ||
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Post# 560197 , Reply# 3 11/29/2011 at 14:14 (4,524 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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The Easy brand was owned by WCI here in the states by the early-mid seventies. This is Eddy's version of a nearly identical washer - different agitator - I had branded Kelvinator a few years back. The serial tag said it was made by GSW Inc. located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Apparently when I researched this a while back, that factory was owned by WCI, building a Franklin design machine (before WCI merged the Franklin and Westinhouse washer designs into one later in the early-mid 80's) and the factory is still there, or was, building refrigerators.
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Post# 560242 , Reply# 4 11/29/2011 at 17:15 (4,524 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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