Thread Number: 85936
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Trying to recall a dryer I saw at a friend's house as a kid |
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Post# 1104893 , Reply# 1   1/17/2021 at 23:44 (1,165 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1104894 , Reply# 2   1/18/2021 at 00:13 (1,165 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Our Signature dryer was purchased in late 1967.
It had a slanted console that was mainly fake stainless and fake wood, cheap looking white timer knob with a pointer that had an orange stripe down the middle. Similar knob for tumble/no tumble. No buttons that I can recall, but the matching washer had a bunch of square white buttons. The dryer's console light was at the bottom with an opaque rectangular lens about 8" wide and used an incandescent bulb, presumably with a bayonet type base.
As with all Norge dryers back then, the lint screen was at the very bottom behind a nearly full-width drop-down access door.
Nice that the scent of Downy reminds you of that brown dryer. Ours was gas, and after a few years it smelled like a diesel was idling in the laundry area. It wasn't as loud as a big rig though, but the end-of-cycle buzzer could knock you out of your chair. It also created annoying static (both audio and video) on the TV whenever the the gas flame was engaged, something no amount of Downy could ever fix.
Ah, what a pair those machines were. A match made in/that put us through Hell. I still suffer from Post-Traumatic Signature Disorder some 50+ years later. |
Post# 1104900 , Reply# 3   1/18/2021 at 00:43 (1,165 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)   |   | |
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Post# 1104902 , Reply# 4   1/18/2021 at 01:30 (1,165 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Did the angled control panel look something like this? This is a Wards Signature washer from around 1965-1967. Norge brought out this style/angled control panel in their 1964 line.
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Post# 1104952 , Reply# 5   1/18/2021 at 12:59 (1,165 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 1104956 , Reply# 6   1/18/2021 at 13:37 (1,165 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Bob, that console is the same shape as our Signature pair had, including the vertical treatment across the top. The configuration of the controls isn't at all the same as I recall, but the pictured washer appears to offer less features so that might be why.
I also suspect the simulated wood grain across the sop section has been scrubbed off. IIRC, the embossed wording was raised above the wood grain background. Without the wood grain, it's not easy to read, which would have been a poor branding decision. Then again, we're talking Ward's here . . . |
Post# 1104957 , Reply# 7   1/18/2021 at 13:44 (1,165 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1104958 , Reply# 8   1/18/2021 at 13:53 (1,165 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Ken, this is from the 1964 Norge training manual that is in the "library". It's 2 models down from our TOL DispensoMat washer.
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Post# 1104960 , Reply# 9   1/18/2021 at 14:05 (1,165 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Ken, here's a copy of a vintage appliance ad Louie found that's for a 1965 Norge.
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Post# 1104962 , Reply# 10   1/18/2021 at 14:28 (1,164 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Bob, the console light lens on the B&W photo from the library is the same as the one on our Signature dryer, as is the push button switch for it on the right hand edge of the console.
And, in my highly biased opinion, that "Touch and Wash" system is 100% BS. Twisting a timer knob is faster, more efficient, makes more sense, and I could go on and on with my Snorge bashing, as you well know. |