I agree Tom I think that this was GEs best control panel design ever, it is also interesting, and I believe that it was the only time that GE had a cast aluminum panel which was common on KM, WP and even MT, most other brands used much cheaper to build stamped steel or aluminum and of coarse molded plastic to construct their control panels.

that dashboard looks a heck of a lot like my 1966 dryer

No Filter-Flo until the late Eighties, to my knowledge, ever had an all-white porcelain washbasket, even thought the graphic doesn't really depict a speckled porcelain tub. As most of you already know, there were some all-green and all-blue porcelain tubs and they are rare.

This was a beautifully designed panel, but I imagine it was expensive to manufacture and I wouldn't be surprised if GE incurred a lot of expense replacing a lot of these under warranty because the backsplash was mostly glass and we know what happens when careless sellers, installers and owners try to move washing machines around by the backsplash. I always wondered whether GM copied GE or the other way around.