What year is this from, I assume mid-late 60's??

Also what sort of "cleaning system" did this use with it's "automatic reversing action" and without "propellers or a noisy motor"?  

Was it something like a Frigidaire spin tube, but mounted below?

This is a rather odd rack design, especially when they claim it's "banquet size capacity".

**Robert I hope it's OK I used only this small image from it?

Kevin

I think it was more like the early 60s Kevin.  The wash system was a screw-drive kind of unit; the only thing I can think that was close to it was the James.  I had a brochure for this model in a Canadian Reader's Digest when I was a brat.  Unfortunately I lost it in a house fire in 1991.

These dishwashers have a horrible reputation and I know of one collector here (*cough* a Mr. John Lefever) who found one, hooked it for a test, found how badly it cleaned (or did not clean I suppose) and out the door it went! 

I saw one in Montreal a few years ago in pink, but the seller wanted to sell it as part of a package deal with a pink range and refrigerator and would not even consider selling just the dishwasher.  

And yes, I still want one despite all this... 

Thanks for the info Paul & Glenn!   I guess I missed those previous discussions.

John tossed one in the dumpster?   I'm surprised he didn't keep it for the museum and put a sign on it "one of the worst performing dishwashers ever made"!

The cylinder was bakelite type of affair.  There were baffles mounted at the back of the cylinder that caused the water action as the cylinder spun very quickly.  The "hump" in the bottom rack was to make space for the cylinder underneath it.  My Godfather's family bought a new house in probably 1963 that had a Tappan kitchen in it that had this dishwash3er.  The house we bought in fall of 1961 had the O'Keefe & Merrit version of the same dishwasher.  It was ripped out because we brought the less than 1-2 year old Waste King.  The dishwasher ripped out was put in our old house so the new buyer had a dishwasher in the kitchen where the Waste King had been.  I knew one or two other people who had this dishwasher.  I consider this worse than a Frigidaire Spin Tube.  As for any potential for cleaning even crumbs, it ranks right up there with the washer that had the interchangeable tub to make it a dishwasher.  And I base that on the pathetic "splashing" for that said dishwasher from Dishwashercrazy's video of it.  For that washer, I had expected the "agitator" to wash the dishes with it "spinning" rather than the agitator simply agitating back and forth like when it was washing.  That was a disappointment to me. 

The revolving cylinder was about 10" in diameter, the drive motor was mounted inside the cylinder from the rear of the DW [ it would have been a PITA to fix or replace the motor but I am quite sure no one ever bothered to fix one of these DWs ]. The motor ran at 1725 RPMs, the Bakelite surface was completely smooth, the one we had had no fins or ridges of any kind on the outside of the cylinder.

Yes I hate to admit that we threw a nearly new unused one of these away, but we did hook it up and use it a few times, and yes it is truly the worst DW I ever tried to use, if I had it to do over again I would have saved it.

John L.

From what I've heard, ANY of the Tappan dishwashers were pretty bad...  The Dual-Drench model in the ad that started this thread was bad, but apparently, its replacement that had a spring-loaded reversing wash arm was pretty awful as well.  I remember friends who had a 70s Tappan in a reasonably nice apartment where they lived, but the machine had some kind of electric interlock for the door (kind of like the Westinghouse 'Lock N Spin' top-load washers) that held their clean dishes hostage for weeks at a time...   LOL 

Frigidaire Spin-Tube dishwashers don't have a great reputation either...  I've still got one but it's not in regular use so I can't say for sure!

Too funny!  That sure looks like a Whirlpool in Tappan's clothing to me... LOL  

Reminds me of a buddy in high school who's folks had something I'd never seen - a Bélanger portable dishwasher that looked like an Inglis/Whirlpool clone to me.  But I digress... As I often do.... 

Of what, crappy dishwashers?

(or were those brands good?)

Ducks & runs!   

Roy was notoriously bad...    Some Bélanger appliances (refrigerators and freezers particularly) were rebadged Norges.  Not sure exactly when it happened, but most Roy appliances were Gibson rebadges.  

Both offered an automatic washer at some point or another, but I've never seen one in person.  

Cool photo!  Yep, that looks like the infamous 'Dual Drench' model alright... 

Wonder how many of those proud Tappan executives got the gate after this dishwasher was introduced?  LOL 

D&M impeller machines and later D&M single-arm dishwashers probably would get at least an honorable mention alongside the mostly inconvenient   spray-tube machines from Youngstown and Frigidaire.  

the POD model was TOL and the model shown with the Tappan execs was the BOL model like what was in the kitchen in the house we bought. 

Yep, I'd say that Tappan is a Whirlpool.  I vaguely remember someone seeing a CL ad a few years ago that was a "Tappan" dishwasher and it was a WP.  I believe Combo52 can confirm these existed. 

The "cylinder" rotated at its 1725 rpm speed during dry cycle for "forced air" drying lol. 

I can't begin to imagine what a PITA that would be to load.  I know the early Hotpoints were set up the same way but they look like they would be a little easier to load than this one.  Maybe not.  I'm glad I have never had to use one.  However, I would still love to have one of the Hotpoints that had the upper and lower racks that moved independently.

That tower looks to me an awful lot like some of the Hotpoint machines I've seen.

That's Tappan is a WCI product!!!