Thread Number: 80211
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 1041629   8/13/2019 at 18:18 (1,689 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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This has been some very interesting reading. I wish they would have shown better pictures of the control panels! My questions are when did Easy stop making their own design washers and dryers? And what made them switch to the Hotpoint design?
As a kid I remember seeing Easy washers in the stores but never saw these later design Hotpoint models! |
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Post# 1041636 , Reply# 1   8/13/2019 at 18:43 (1,689 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Cannot say how or when Hotpoint entered the picture, but Syracuse Washing Machine Company (owner of Easy brand of laundry appliances) was sold to Hupp Corporation in early 1960's IIRC.
www.automaticwasher.org/c... Hupp made changes to Easy's famous spindrier, and may have begun sourcing top loading washing machines from anyone who would allow them to slap their name on. |
Post# 1041664 , Reply# 2   8/13/2019 at 22:42 (1,689 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Hi Peter, from the 1959 to the 1965 line Easy automatic washers used their own Velva-Power transmission, then starting in 1966 it seems that Hubb the company that owned Easy at the time closed the Easy factory and had Hotpoint build their automatic washers for the next few years. It was about that same time that Hotpoint introduced their spiral-agitator which I'm sure was no coincidence, but Hotpoint added an internal pump-up filter inside the agitator.
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Post# 1041674 , Reply# 3   8/14/2019 at 04:42 (1,688 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 1042092 , Reply# 4   8/18/2019 at 10:20 (1,684 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Thanks for the info and thanks to you and whoever supplied the literature. I'm still very curious about these Hotpoint/Easy machines and I was also surprised by what seemed to me many patent violations on someone's part. I will enjoy these a lot. I just hope that, one day, I'll have the good luck to come across one of these machines. I've been lucky enough to score two earlier Hotpoints, including one with the burping lint-filter spiral agitator but I'd be thrilled to find an ALL-FABRIC machine or, pie-in-the-sky, a DUO-LOAD.
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Post# 1042123 , Reply# 5   8/18/2019 at 15:54 (1,684 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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