And still refusing to look into the future and modernize the line. Maytag and Hobart were a lot alike with having to be dragged into improving their lines. They chose instead to trade on reputation, Maytag on their wringer machines and Hobart on commercial machines, neither of which was pertinent to the domestic product that they were currently making.
Hobart completely discounted the need for heating the wash water in their dishwashers because they were accustomed to institutional dishwashing where the small machines in lunch counters and the like were run frequently enough that once heated up, they stayed how and where health codes required 180F water for the rinse which helped keep the machine hot. If you ever studied trays of dishes going into the machine, they were well rinsed before they went in or had fresh food that had not dried on them. Home machines were generally run once a day or after each meal, but without carryover heat from previous loads to keep the water from cooling. The 14 series was out of date and way behind state of the art when introduced, especially compared to the Whirlpool wash arm machine of the same time.
Maytag put that big high-finned Gyrator into a very narrow tub in the automatics where it could not create the water currents that washed well in the wringer machines' wide tubs. Maytag introduced and kept the Wash and Wear/Perma Press Cycle available ONLY on the TOL model with the very restrictive push button timer until the advent of the 06 series, many years after other washer brands were offering a Wash and Wear cycle in models further down the line. They increased the size of the tub, barely, years after other brands were offering larger capacity tubs, and then only vertically, not width-wise which is where Maytag really needed to enlarge their tubs to improve turnover.
I think Fred and Fred Jr. were quite satisfied to rest on their machines' reputations and make bank that women whose mothers and grandmothers had gotten good service out of their Maytag wringer washers would choose to buy a Maytag automatic just because. They did not expect better performance because they did not know of better performance and don't forget the two testing magazines' love affair with Maytag, again carried forward from the days of the wringer machines. When the Freds should have turned over in their graves was when the management of their company chose to acquire those raggedy ass POS lines to get large capacity washers and those sad-ass stoves and refrigerators. I don't know how many hinges for oven doors I picked up for the business and those Admiral side-by-side refrigerators were so cheaply built that it was almost impossible to get the refrigerator and freezer doors to line up. Those three lines and the lack of customer support for the problems owners had with the Maytag front loader which they advertised as thought they had invented the front loader and the problems they had which would make you think they were, indeed, the first front loaders, caused people to vow they would never buy a Maytag again.
(Akron/Cleveland Ohio) 
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