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Post# 777055   8/13/2014 at 06:02 (3,533 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

The blurb for the machine mentioned Caloric's Famous Long Stroke Washing Action. Doesn't something have to have a bit of history to become famous? Caloric automatic washers barely had a moment's presence. I doubt that most people knew that they existed, so how could Caloric's washing action become famous? Like someone said, "She can't be a has-been because she never was."




Post# 777060 , Reply# 1   8/13/2014 at 06:18 (3,533 days old) by lebron (Minnesota)        
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Who made these machines? How long were they produced? Does anybody have one?

Post# 777070 , Reply# 2   8/13/2014 at 07:51 (3,533 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Looks like another Beam built washer. 

 

Those folks at Beam sure were busy around this time, building washers for so many.  I wonder if the other makers like stodgy Maytag looked down on Beam's "loose ways"?
Post# 777086 , Reply# 3   8/13/2014 at 09:31 (3,533 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Probably not as much as D&M was looked down upon as the Great Whore of Babylon in the dishwasher world. "Loose" did not apply only to construction standards.

Outside of Beam, there were not other companies who did this (with the exception of WP-KM) until the buyouts started happening near the end of the last century.

Post# 777124 , Reply# 4   8/13/2014 at 15:18 (3,533 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        

Penncrest Hotpoints/ GEs.  Wards  Signature brand was both Norge and Westinghouse  and iirc  the portables were sourced from Japan, Norge wringer machines.  There was also that strange  pairing of GE sold with the RCA name.  IIRC, Wards Signature  dishwashers were  mfr. by  Frigidaire.  The Crosley name has been on Bendix, Norge/Tag,  WP.  Montgomery Ward's  sold wringer machines with the " Famous Borg-Warner transmission".
Post# 777131 , Reply# 5   8/13/2014 at 15:27 (3,533 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        
Sorry I forgot about "Hamilton".

Hamilton dryers, were rebadged by  Frigidaire, GE, and maybe some early SQ? Hamilton washers were Norge?

and the Easy washers that were the first Westinghouse TL.
Post# 777141 , Reply# 6   8/13/2014 at 16:47 (3,533 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Thank you, but the Crosley name and the GE/RCA were what I meant by the buyouts in last part of the 20th century, but I did forget the others. I guess that last interruption in arterial flow took out more than the words to the brucha I was reciting. Thanks for helping me remember. I do still remember the strange, flat front, front loading washers and dryers I tried my best to see that summer in 1960 in Florida when we went into the store to buy a rod and reel for me to use for surfcasting. I had never been in a Wards before and that appliance department was totally foreign territory begging to be explored, but the parents were calling.

Post# 777234 , Reply# 7   8/14/2014 at 00:25 (3,533 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        

Tom, Thank You! I was thinking earlier about the "Preway Gas Dishwasher" and  the electric counterpart that were  totally different in appearance. NTGOT-  I would also like to see  the 230v Kenmore dishwasher one day.  alr

 

 

 

 

 

 
Post# 777279 , Reply# 8   8/14/2014 at 06:05 (3,532 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

But, you know, no manufacturer of washing machines did, as far as I know, what D&M did with dishwashers; just make them for any brand and not really market a brand of their own. The examples you cited were pairings of makers and brands, some partnerships that endured and some that did not, but D&M was turning out dishwashers for many brands. The makers of other appliances, like Globe with Maytag gas ranges and Amana with Maytag Freezers kept producing their own lines of stoves and freezers. Frigidaire, while making Wards' dishwashers kept marketing their own. Both Norge and Westinghouse, while making laundry appliances for Wards kept marketing their own machines, like Tappan and Westinghouse did while making electric ranges for Wards. Roper, while making ranges for Sears continued to offer ranges under their own name. I think D&M was a unique manufacturer for hire in the appliance world.


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