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POD 4/22/12 KM dryers with side swing doors & ozone bulbs
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Post# 591316   4/22/2012 at 06:41 (4,384 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Does anyone know if this was the first time, after the initial waterfall front models, that KM dryers were offered with side swing doors?

I wonder about the story behind the term "Fabric Master" for the time-temp auto dry. Before Sears had it, the words appeared on the control panel of the 1958 Frigidaire Custom Imperial Dryer which did not have an auto dry cycle.





Post# 591358 , Reply# 1   4/22/2012 at 13:43 (4,383 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        
Sears Canada

The reason these have side swing doors is that they are Canadian models. Note also that the lower part of the cabinet has the earlier ('57-'60) Whirlpool stamping.

Post# 591373 , Reply# 2   4/22/2012 at 15:26 (4,383 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )        

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I remember our first Kenmore dryer had the side swing door and the UV lamp. I probably would have been about 5 when I began to notice such things, that light especially. Mom bought her first automatic washer, a Kenmore frog-eye around 1955/56 the year I was born and the first Simpson-Sears stores opened here. The dryer had to be a few years later because it didn't match the washer and it had the squared off look console with the chrome trim etc and 3 color coded programs around the dial. I'm guessing before that she just used to dry clothes on the line

Post# 591379 , Reply# 3   4/22/2012 at 16:19 (4,383 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Thanks, Tom & Pete.


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