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Post# 660448   2/15/2013 at 07:27 (4,088 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Today's Ephemera is all from my childhood collection (with the exception of the Leonard brochure). I would pull the addresses of the manufacturers out of Consumer Reports and write away for literature. For today's addition to the library I've produced a collection of American made products sold in Canada under different names. You can download the brochures here.
#1 is Inglis made by Whirlpool, these machines are belt-drive Whirlpool through and through... #2 is Leonard made by Kelvinator with the washers that have the splashy "Centic Action". #3 is Viking made by General Electric. It is so fun seeing GE Filter-Flo washers, with a completely different control panel design and a side-opening Hotpoint style lid! #4 is GSW-McClary which I believe the washers were made by Franklin, but those who download the brochure let us know what you think about who made them. The agitators are clearly of the Easy Spiralator design, but by this time Easy was out of business! |
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Post# 660453 , Reply# 1   2/15/2013 at 07:52 (4,088 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 660462 , Reply# 2   2/15/2013 at 08:39 (4,088 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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That twin tub in the bottom row of Robert's photo thread looks very like a (UK) Hotpoint Supermatic to to me!
Could it be they "borrowed" the design like Speed Queen did with Servis? I wonder if it had the "filter-flo" pan or did it have the brush arrangement that the very similar EE Liberators had? Al |
Post# 660479 , Reply# 3   2/15/2013 at 11:52 (4,088 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 660493 , Reply# 4   2/15/2013 at 14:31 (4,087 days old) by mechanic2laundr ()   |   | |
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In the Soviet Union also made washing machines and even their advertised in magazines))) |
Post# 660494 , Reply# 5   2/15/2013 at 14:34 (4,087 days old) by mechanic2laundr ()   |   | |
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Washing machine "Batumi-59" and the centrifuge "Batumi" made in Georgia (Georgian Soviet Union) in 1959. |
Post# 660501 , Reply# 6   2/15/2013 at 14:51 (4,087 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Thanks a lot Robert. I had to read them all before I went to sleep this morning! My grandfather worked for Northern Electric nost of his life and he had a Leonard refrigerator since the 1940's. Then, he always bought Kelvinator refrigerators and freezers and the 1940's refrigerator survived both of my grandparents. All his other appliances were Inglis, that includes the dishwasher that he wouldn't let my grandmother load. He said she (or anybody else) didn't load it correctly! |
Post# 660578 , Reply# 7   2/15/2013 at 23:01 (4,087 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Glad you guys enjoyed those great brochures, I'm so loving have all of this stuff in digital form now.
Welcome Ivan, I think you are the first member we ever have had from Moscow. We really are all over aren't we? I wonder what kind of agitator that wringer washer on the second Russian ad had? I wonder if it was an impeller on the bottom of the washtub? |
Post# 660596 , Reply# 8   2/16/2013 at 00:48 (4,087 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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One thing I'm wondering is about my former Inglis dryer that I got from my parents. They bought it in March of 1974 so I assumed it was a 1974 model, but maybe it wasn't...
It's an Inglis Supreme and it has a US-style cabinet. Here's a scan of the original instruction manual. Sorry it's in French... |
Post# 660597 , Reply# 9   2/16/2013 at 00:49 (4,087 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 660598 , Reply# 10   2/16/2013 at 00:50 (4,087 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 660599 , Reply# 11   2/16/2013 at 00:58 (4,087 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Like these. There's a whole convoluted bunch of reasons over the partnerships and mergers that I think was due to the government of the times FIRA (Foreign Investment Review Act)that was designed to prevent mega American industries from decimating the much smaller Canadian manufacturers like Moffat, Inglis and GSW.
Like the Moffat Microwave, that's a Litton.. They were sold as Moffats ,then Litton-Moffats but by the later 70's the Moffat name was dropped altogether. The Easy designed stuff was sold as McLary-Easy for awhile anyways. Eatons was a store brand though we bought our current GE washer at the Bay and not branded as a Beaumark or Baycrest (their store brands) I can't remember if Eatons was still selling GE made Vikings or not at that time. Eatons Dept Store owned the "Viking" name in Canada the US based Viking company that makes those high end appliances couldn't use it up here so they were branded "Ultra-Line" . Since Eatons demise Ultra-lines are now Viking, same as in the USA. Since the Free Trade Agreement most all of the restrictions are gone and there's not much made here anymore like the US. Just means that if you want to buy a major appliance in the US now you're no longer hit with punishing duties which used to make it hardly worth it, now you just pay the sales tax bringing it in. Plus the price differential is fast disappearing from what it used to be. |
Post# 660600 , Reply# 12   2/16/2013 at 01:31 (4,087 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 660601 , Reply# 13   2/16/2013 at 01:52 (4,087 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 660611 , Reply# 14   2/16/2013 at 04:21 (4,087 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Well I could contain my curiousity no longer, the McClary twinnie is certainly based on the UK Hotpoint Twin Tub, if not actually built by them.
I understand Ivan to be the owner and restorer of the Russina machines we had a thread on a while back. Ivan, it would probably be better to create a new thread to discuss your machines, I am sure you will get many questions. Oh, and welcome to AutomaticWasher too :) Al CLICK HERE TO GO TO vacbear58's LINK |
Post# 660615 , Reply# 15   2/16/2013 at 07:30 (4,087 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 660618 , Reply# 16   2/16/2013 at 07:44 (4,087 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Glad you found us. Did you, like the rest of us, grow up interested in washing machines? I hope you will enjoy all of the features of this site. Are automatic washers widely used in Moscow now? |
Post# 660687 , Reply# 18   2/16/2013 at 15:21 (4,086 days old) by mechanic2laundr ()   |   | |
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Unfortunately I can not open a new topic, it fails. I was glad to talk about the Soviet washing machines. |
Post# 660701 , Reply# 19   2/16/2013 at 17:35 (4,086 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 660908 , Reply# 22   2/18/2013 at 08:58 (4,085 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 660918 , Reply# 23   2/18/2013 at 10:31 (4,085 days old) by JeffG ()   |   | |
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Ivan, do you know the date of the photo in post #660493? |
Post# 660971 , Reply# 25   2/18/2013 at 16:02 (4,084 days old) by TwinTubber (Toronto)   |   | |
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For those great CANADIAN memories!!!!! Those Inglis machines were incredible. |
Post# 661341 , Reply# 27   2/20/2013 at 19:48 (4,082 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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it qouls be nice to see more of these inglis washer dryers eaton viking ect as pod aspecaly the diffrent inglis models i know sometime the inglis royal shows as pod but would like to see the diffrent models like superb liberator and citation ect and it would also be nice to see brochures of these eaton viking models as well.
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Post# 662105 , Reply# 29   2/24/2013 at 16:22 (4,078 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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