Thread Number: 53575
Today's P.O.D. 05/25/14 Viking W & D's |
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Post# 759406 , Reply# 1   5/25/2014 at 04:52 (3,617 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 759419 , Reply# 2   5/25/2014 at 07:05 (3,617 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Eaton Viking washers and dryers and were 'Camco Clones' (that was the company which manufactured GE-based appliances here in Canada - this included the GE, Hotpoint, and McClary brands back in the 70s)
The Viking automatic laundry appliances were a mix of GE and Hotpoint styles, but were GE-designed at heart.
However, for other appliances, Vikings were different rebadges. Viking wringer washers and their version of a twin-tub were Simplicity machines. Ranges, refrigerators, and dishwashers until the mid 1980s were Westinghouse machines. Then their air-conditioners were made by Electrohome... and so on.
Viking 'rationalized' their brand in the mid to late 1980s and all the major kitchen appliances were GE-based design. Oddly enough, at about hat time that the old Simpsons department store was acquired by the Bay - this ended their long alliance with Sears and Simpsons dropped the Kenmore appliance line. The end result was that the old 'big three' Canadian department store-brand appliances were pretty much all the same thing with a different name (Viking at Eatons or Beaumark at Simpsons and the Bay).
I have great memories of the Viking appliances my family owned over the years! My first full-size automatic washer and dryer set were very much like those in the POD, but my set was just a notch less fancy than these. |