Thread Number: 44037
Frigidaire by Whirlpool Dishwashers? |
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Post# 647238 , Reply# 1   12/17/2012 at 21:16 (4,119 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 647239 , Reply# 2   12/17/2012 at 21:17 (4,119 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 647250 , Reply# 3   12/17/2012 at 22:03 (4,119 days old) by magic_clean (Florida)   |   | |
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supplied side by side refrigerators many years ago to Frigidaire, but unsure about dishwashers. L.P. |
Post# 647315 , Reply# 4   12/18/2012 at 06:04 (4,118 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 647326 , Reply# 5   12/18/2012 at 07:40 (4,118 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 647453 , Reply# 6   12/18/2012 at 17:02 (4,118 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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We put MOL Tappan D/W made by WP in the custom homes we built in the mid 70's. Somewhere late in the decade Tappan switched to DM made machines. |
Post# 647459 , Reply# 7   12/18/2012 at 17:35 (4,118 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 647469 , Reply# 8   12/18/2012 at 18:25 (4,118 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Whirlpool + Frigidaire = Froogidaire or Whirlidaire or Frigipool |
Post# 647634 , Reply# 9   12/19/2012 at 08:39 (4,117 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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Tom, you forgot PoolAire |
Post# 647680 , Reply# 10   12/19/2012 at 14:20 (4,117 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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I know there were GM Frigidaire-badged Whirlpool washers/dryers in Brazil made by Brastemp in the early seventies who also happened to make Whirlpool-clone dishwashers but it's the first time I hear about Frigidaire-badged Whirlpool dishwashers! Whirlpool stopped making dishwasher with the lift-up handle in the mid-seventies.
My sister lives in Brazil, I wish she could find a pair of these for me... But I think it's very unlikely to happen! |
Post# 647681 , Reply# 11   12/19/2012 at 14:21 (4,117 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 647682 , Reply# 12   12/19/2012 at 14:22 (4,117 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 647687 , Reply# 13   12/19/2012 at 14:48 (4,117 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 647831 , Reply# 14   12/20/2012 at 07:12 (4,116 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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I never saw anything like that here in the US, but who knows. As Leslie mentioned GM Frigidaire did source their TOL water and ice dispensing 26 cubic foot side by side refrigerators from WP for a few years before the Frigidaire name was sold to WCI and all the FD factories were closed.
Even though I generally liked Frigidaire s SXSs it was really neat to see the GMFD name on such a high quality refrigerator, and when it was sitting next to the regular FD refrigerators on showroom floors it really made the them look cheap and poorly built, these WP built SXSs even still had a real porcelain of steel interior something that FD abandoned around 1970.
I can only imagine that if FD had started sourcing their DWs and a few other appliances from WP and possibly others in the 1970s that GM might not even had to sell off and close the Frigidaire brand as their DW and 24" laundry Center were by far their two worst products. |
Post# 647895 , Reply# 15   12/20/2012 at 12:07 (4,116 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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John,
I'd really like to know which refrigerator models were made by Whirlpool. Do you have pictures of one or a model number? I guess they had rotary compressors too but built by Whirlpool? I never had a 1970's GM Frigidaire, I wasn't aware they didn't have porcelain interiors. The Canadian factory closed in 1970 and we didn't get many after that here. The only ones I have seen from the 1970's were in the US (when I got my Agitub washer in Saranac Lake NY, there was still an Avocado Frost-Proof top-freezer frigidaire in that house and another similar one in Harvest Gold where I got Roger's range and my 1975 Dishwasher near Rochester NY. I'm mostly interested in the bottom freezer models and I have never seen one newer than 1964 here. I'm wondering if the large bottom-freezer models were still produced or sold in Canada after 1964 as I have seen a few of each year between 1959 and 1964 but none of the newer models that I'd like to get so much (those with the electric door opener like you have!). If anyone has a lead to something like that for sale, let me know! |
Post# 647948 , Reply# 16   12/20/2012 at 15:59 (4,116 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 694572 , Reply# 17   8/6/2013 at 02:29 (3,887 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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