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Thread Number: 78098
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
P.O.D. 1/13/2019: Hamilton, what ever became of? |
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Post# 1021106 1/14/2019 at 01:30 (1,928 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy  (Oak Park, MI) |
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Yes, that Hamilton washer 'n dryer set, along with Franklin, Blackstone and the other oddball brands?
Did they morph into whatever was a good WCI sphere, or simply die out before such a hideous corporate conglomeration had been founded, which unfortunately the Big-4 of Gibson, Kelvinator, Frigidaire and (White) Westinghouse couldn't escape? (Anymore to explain?) -- Dave | ||
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| Post# 1021107 , Reply# 1 1/14/2019 at 01:42 (1,928 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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The washer Was just a re badged Norge, the dryer I think they made, but I don't know what happened to the company. | ||
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Post# 1021108 , Reply# 2 1/14/2019 at 02:08 (1,928 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Hamilton Company History Norge was a division of BorgWarner. Hamilton marketed the first automatic dryer, which others rebadged (such as Frigidaire and Bendix IIRC?). Maybe the Hamilton washer was first and Norge rebadged it? | ||
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Post# 1021118 , Reply# 3 1/14/2019 at 07:52 (1,928 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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believe the sequence of events was that Hamilton had a pretty well developed dryer that they would OEM to anyone, but they didn't have much experience (from the readings) with hydraulics/water/so forth; so they got the washing machine from Norge to fill their line; from the above timeline in about 1968 they sold their laundry business off to White Consolidated, which continued to produce until the early 70s.
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