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Post# 642104   11/27/2012 at 14:53 (4,160 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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in Delaware.....unusual control panel....looks to be time dry only..could probably be run on 110V....

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Post# 642109 , Reply# 1   11/27/2012 at 15:10 (4,160 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        

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First time I've seen one of these.  Could be an "import"?  Or, with the simplified controls, maybe for the visually impaired?

 

lawrence


Post# 642133 , Reply# 2   11/27/2012 at 18:35 (4,160 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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I bet it was sold at Kmart.   Kmart had "strange" looking GE appliances.  Many had only knobs when the "real" line stillhad toggle switches. 


Post# 642135 , Reply# 3   11/27/2012 at 18:36 (4,160 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)        

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Looks like the JC Penny model console with the "GE" name on it.

Post# 642174 , Reply# 4   11/27/2012 at 21:01 (4,159 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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That is an oddball. Bob might be right - a Kmart or dealer-special model. Can anyone make out what it says under the GE logo? Looks like *something* DRYER.



Post# 642176 , Reply# 5   11/27/2012 at 21:03 (4,159 days old) by A440 ()        

"Mary Dryer" :)

Post# 642191 , Reply# 6   11/27/2012 at 22:30 (4,159 days old) by applianceguy47 ()        

It looks bloated.

I'd say 1975ish.

I agree with the Kmart estimate.


Post# 642199 , Reply# 7   11/27/2012 at 23:29 (4,159 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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May have been a Canadian model???

Post# 642227 , Reply# 8   11/28/2012 at 02:45 (4,159 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        

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I'm sure it could easily be like a GE washer my grandma had w/ the left-opening lid & having knobs on the panel, instead of toggle switches; just a few models down...


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Post# 642228 , Reply# 9   11/28/2012 at 03:05 (4,159 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)        

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GE "all knobs" set.

Post# 642242 , Reply# 10   11/28/2012 at 05:23 (4,159 days old) by appnut (TX)        
GE "all knobs" set.

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Alex, this dryer was almost 20 years before that monochrome white set. 


Post# 642246 , Reply# 11   11/28/2012 at 05:48 (4,159 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

If you note how the border at the bottom of the control panel has a break in it like it was removed by some laundry product, I'll bet that what remains before "DRYER" is part of the word "AUTOMATIC" before the first part of it was washed away. For such a basic machine, it sure has a high control panel. With the timer that goes to 140 minutes, it was made for dual voltage operation.

Post# 642252 , Reply# 12   11/28/2012 at 07:27 (4,159 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Odd GE Electric Dryer

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I would love to see the model tag, it could be a military model designed to run on different voltages for use in various countries around the world, WP built some odd models that we used to run into occasionally.


Post# 642253 , Reply# 13   11/28/2012 at 07:32 (4,159 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        

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I'm thinking that second line of text was originally "UTILITY DRYER". This appears to be a basic model, so that could fit. Some of the text could be missing, but not enough to make "AUTOMATIC DRYER" if the full line was centered under the logo and the "GENERAL ELECTRIC".

lawrence


Post# 642255 , Reply# 14   11/28/2012 at 07:57 (4,159 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Good point Lawrence! I did not know that GE labeled any dryers as Utility Dryers.

Post# 642265 , Reply# 15   11/28/2012 at 08:33 (4,159 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)        

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normally you would also find terms like -- Heavy Duty, or Automatic Dryer.....but as odd as this one is, anything is possible

Post# 642301 , Reply# 16   11/28/2012 at 11:06 (4,159 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481)        

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My point in showing the "all knob set" was to illustrate that GE had continued to manufactured laundry equipment without the toggles or push buttons into the future.

Post# 642310 , Reply# 17   11/28/2012 at 11:55 (4,159 days old) by applianceguy47 ()        
Spanish GE washer

GE experimented with different kinds of panels.

I found a GE washer, I estimate it was from 1970. It had the "normal" GE switches and knobs of the time, but all the script was in Spanish.

It had a mid height control panel with the shorter back base support, and the chrome trim was the mid-height with the arching side pieces. There were no lights on it. When I got it, it had a sock stuck in the pump.


Post# 642317 , Reply# 18   11/28/2012 at 12:37 (4,159 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Was it a Lavadora Automatica on the control panel?

Yo washo Espanol.


Post# 642322 , Reply# 19   11/28/2012 at 13:06 (4,159 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
Got me.

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This one is a real conundrum. One clue I have is that in 1967, GE did a major design change and the TOL that year was the model pictured below, with only 5 programmed pre-set cycles unlike the two years before and the 5 years following. The backsplash enclosure looks the same as the tall enclosure for this dryer. What doesn't fit is the style of the dial, which looks more like ones they used 10 years later. I must admit I'm stumped. It looks like it says "Utility Dryer" and I'm wondering if this isn't a Canadian model, which were very close to the US varieties, but there were always unique differences.


Post# 642325 , Reply# 20   11/28/2012 at 13:13 (4,159 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
"The Sum of All Dryers"

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For all we know this could be a GE nuclear warhead cleverly disguised as a domestic helper. I mean, it is located close to DC, after all. When the user dials "Air Fluff" and hits the START button, that's all folks!

 

I suppose one of us could contact the seller and ask them to send us a picture of the rating plate.

 

It could be one of those totally odd-ball GE models designed to stand alone or go with another maker's washer like the ones from the early Sixties where they recycled a bunch of old parts and put them together. :


Post# 642359 , Reply# 21   11/28/2012 at 17:29 (4,159 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

That last dryer you pictured had a matching washer and, as best as I can determine, it was sort of a rework of the white rectangular timer pod models of the late 50s-early 60s. I have seen a photo of Gloria Swanson in her kitchen with the timer pod washer. It originally appeared in (I think) a Life magazine article about her. The star could wash.

Post# 642391 , Reply# 22   11/28/2012 at 19:57 (4,158 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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I actually found one of these dryers recently but haven't even been able to locate a picture of the matching washer. For some reason this dryer and its possible washer mate intrigue me...

RCD



Post# 642628 , Reply# 23   11/29/2012 at 16:23 (4,158 days old) by applianceguy47 ()        

Yes, Tom, "Lavadora" was on there.  Lava being short for bathing or washing in Spanish.

 

I remember picking it up, recognizing the shape of the washer, because one of my 1st daily use washers was the same.

And I bought it as part of a lot of a dozen machines.  But I never looked closely at the console, there wasn't time.

 

So, I get it to the workshop, start checking it over, and I had to look the panel over twice.  "WHAT ?" was my thinking. "Is my vision going?"  lol.  I was so rushed then.  

 

Then it was like, what do I do with it?  It was almost like this plastic console GE dryer from the early 60s.  It didn't fit into what I considered to be a "normal" GE appliance.  My brain was spitting out a Syntax error code.  "does not compute" lol.  I was like well, I pulled the sock out of it and it works, so...  that's something, right?  lol.

 

This plastic console GE dryer SO reminds me of the movie 9 to 5, when Judy (Jane Fonda) was assigned to the Xerox room to make various binders on this huge "xerox machine" (copier with sorter).  And we all remember how that went.

 

(on the phone) "Judy Bernly, Please Hold.  This is Judy"

 

Or, large copiers and computers of the 1970s.

 

Its interesting that GE did the first all plastic consoles, but didn't stick with it.  Then in the mid 70s, Sears picked it up with their base models, and even some of the MOL models.

 

 


Post# 642629 , Reply# 24   11/29/2012 at 16:24 (4,158 days old) by applianceguy47 ()        

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Post# 642632 , Reply# 25   11/29/2012 at 16:25 (4,158 days old) by applianceguy47 ()        

I can't find an exact picture.  darn-it.



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