Spacepig (Jeannine) found it and with the help of Chris (SpiralDasher), that Waste-King Universal dishwasher that surfaced in Indiana has now been recovered and moved, temporarily, to Ohio until I can get back on the road to pick it up!  

I didn't think to get the model number, but I am hoping it's one of the early-run models from 1958 or 1959. 

The seller didn't have a lot of pictures of the inside of the machine.  I was more than pleasantly surprised when I got these from Chris this afternoon!  I think I scored a low-mileage machine here... 

Added bonus - as the seller was prepping the machine for pickup, they contacted me to let me know that the owners booklet and warranty paperwork had been found.  They don't look to have been consulted much at all!

Now the wait begins... When is the snow melted?  Is the snow melted yet?  Why isn't the snow melting yet??  It's going to a case of cabin fever for me until spring fever takes over and I can get this cool machine!!

Be still my heart.  Paul, my memory of our timer dial was the colors were more inline with the two-tone colors of the logo/light rather than the two-tone grey timer dial.  I vaguely remember seeing that color scheme in slightly newer versions than this one.

I still think this was a better machine than the O'Keefe & Merrit Dual Drench dishwasher that was in the kitchen when the house was on the parade of homes tour.  My dad made an agreement with the guy who bought our old house that he would put that dishwasher in the space in the kitchen where the WK was.  

An poingnant side-note, I saw today where my "other mother's house (across the street from us, went up for sale on the market today.   

I'm going to have to get a couple of dinner plates, a salad plate, and some of the cereal and fruit bowls out of the cabinet  and bring them over to the computer and let the look at the pictures of the inside of the dishwasher and see if they recognize where they got their first baths when they were new.  

So couple that with our dishwasher, it's been an emotional time for me.  

Congratulations, Paul.  The inside looks to be in very good shape and the paperwork is a great bonus!  Our first experience with a DW was a WK maybe a year or two older than this one, and I'm not remembering a choice of cycles.  I have no memory of the racks, either.  I only remember how incredibly loud it was.  When the dishwasher was running, both doors to the kitchen were closed.

lawrence

That looks like an amazing find.  Can't wait to see what you do with it.

This should be interesting, I have never worked on one this old, there were probably more of these the further west you go.

I do remember seeing a few on the scrap piles years ago, so there must have been a few around.

The detergent dispenser looks like the same one that WK used into the 70s, they usually just allowed the detergent to just wash out as it did not have any real seal on it.

Can't wait to see it washing Paul.

John L.

I really just want to take a cloth to that control panel not to mention see/hear it in action.  It looks to have so little use.  I bet it cleans up beautifully.

Paul, did you realize the timer dial on your actual machine, the color combination/contrast is very different than the dishwasher that's pictured on the front of the Use & Care manual?  That timer dial mimics/coordinates the two colors of the display light on the left when it's illuminated.  And that's what our timer dial looked like.  

Congrats again Paul. It's a beauty. Glad you got the shipping worked out.

Christina, I  can assure you, they did.  Not soon after we moved into the new house (and had brought this dishwasher with us), my mom & 2 neighbors got a first suburban grand opening special at our major department store with Johnson Brothers Regency dishes.  The cereal bowls fit perfectly in the corners.  Put dinner plates going down the center  (both sides of center "hole") and then put salad plates  and similar small items on the two rows facing to the center from the two sides.  The little fruit bowls fit perfectly toward the center loops too.  I still have those same dishes and are used as my every day dishes.  They have fit easily in every dishwasher I've had from college to 47 years later to today.  Those dishes are how I judge how every other dish design fits as easily into a dishwasher.  And given today's dishware with their small mnixing bowls for cereal and soup bowls, wastes a lot of space.  

I downloaded the user manual.  Here are a couple of snaps of the racks loaded.  Also, looks like it heats the wash water too.