Those would be around 1964-6, there is nothing special about repairing them as they are about the same as home models from the same time period so service information is easy to find, most parts can be found as well.

John L.

I have never seen that style before.  Those are BEAUTIFUL!!  Wish there were pics of the dryer too.  

Oh wow... That one looks like the 63 I used to have.  Not a suds-saver but it had those "paddle" switches for water temps, speeds, etc. 

 That's a WA-855W!! A Suds-Saver and it's matched to the next-step-up dryer DA-920 W that would have been mated with the 1962 iteration of the Rotary Fabric Dial model. If you ever want to sell these, let me know please.

...not that it's important to any sane person but me, but I'm thinking yours might be a 1963 hybrid-oddball model. Something in the picture of the control panel struck me as wrong but I forgot about it while trying to dodge the virus and stay employed.

The control dials on the W series were either white on black for the lower-end models, or they were black on white for the 850 and 950 models. Your machine has the clear ridged plastic dials that, up to now I thought, they only used for the '63 X series (but yours doesn't have the SOAK cycle highlighted in red- a rarity). Also, your machine has the slightly modified chrome knob that was only used on all the X models.

I think that by the end of 1962 GE had to do many free service calls to replace many of the plastic dials on their more expensive washers that had illuminated dials because they melted. In response they decided to scrap that feature entirely in favor of the cooler fluorescent tube on the side of the control panel coupled with easier to read non-illuminated dials. Then they scrapped all of the wonderful plastic dials in favor of the easier, cheaper embossed and printed dials that lasted to the end. I've noticed in my collection a lot of those dials have melted at some point right where the bulb is mounted. I'm betting that a lot of users, like me, would paused the machine during the cycle to soak or whatever and that leaves the dial light on which damaged the plastic after an hour or so.

Bummer for me; I loved those plastic dials.

Can't know for sure without looking at the rating plate on the LH or RH side of the bottom of the cabinet; if there's a W it's a '62, if there's an X '63.