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Thread Number: 67870
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
who made the first apartment size dryer in the u.s.? |
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| Post# 905664 11/6/2016 at 09:28 (2,720 days old) by dryclean1 (Walton, NY) | ||
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As it seems in my search for info on home laundry machines. the only apartment size dryers seem to have made an appearance only as early as 1970. Did anyone make one before this era? any info would be most appreciated. thanks Bill thhe drycleaner | ||
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| Post# 905668 , Reply# 1 11/6/2016 at 09:50 (2,720 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Hoover I think made the first compact washers with spin dryers. Was it Whirlpool, or Westinghouse? | ||
Post# 905734 , Reply# 2 11/6/2016 at 19:22 (2,720 days old) by Tomturbomatic  (Beltsville, MD) |
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I believe that if you will look at old sears and monkey wards catalogs, you will see that they were offering these earlier. I don't know who was making the strange things for Wards, but Proctor Silex was making a portable pair for sears in the 50s. We have had threads about them. | ||
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Post# 905751 , Reply# 3 11/6/2016 at 21:38 (2,719 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Not really apartment models,  | ||
| Post# 905760 , Reply# 4 11/6/2016 at 23:13 (2,719 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Spiegel sold the odd ball (without a door) made by naxon/naxxon? The porthole was small. When CU tested it it would dry clothes. It also exhausted through the porthole no lint filter and it would sometimes expel a small item. This was during the 1960's. A | ||
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Post# 905852 , Reply# 5 11/7/2016 at 13:08 (2,719 days old) by Combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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First real compact dryers | ||
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Post# 906509 , Reply# 6 11/11/2016 at 10:30 (2,715 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Maytag / Hoover came out with a portable 120 volt dryer in 1969, the DE-50. It looked like a juvenile or not-quite-grownup HOH inside. I thought that a Maytag fan would have noted that milestone. | ||
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