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Thread Number: 93849
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Canadian SQ Wringer Washer |
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Post# 1184999 7/16/2023 at 01:58 (287 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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| Post# 1185003 , Reply# 1 7/16/2023 at 05:55 (287 days old) by rpms (ontario canada) | ||
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Post# 1185008 , Reply# 2 7/16/2023 at 06:49 (287 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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As with Speed Queen down south (USA) you need a score card to keep up with who owned brand name and or produced appliances for Canadian market.
Until 1979 SQ branded laundry appliances were manufactured by McGraw Edison factory in Cambridge, ON. This ended when in November 1979 McGraw Edison sold American Speed Queen factories to Raytheon and Canadian went to "Canadian Admiral" From late 1979 after Canadian Admiral acquired SQ their commercial line was sold under "Econ-O-Wash" and domestic appliances under "Ultra-Wash". Speed Queen brand name cannot be used in Canada by either of above companies because it is owned by Inglis which is largely owned by Whirlpool. At one point Raytheon marketed appliances under SQ, Hubesch, Simplex, Econ-O-Wash and Ultra Wash names. Washer in linked OP auction appears to be Inglis/Whirlpool made "Speed Queen". One bases that statement on fact that both under Inglis and Kenmore (from Simpson Sears), and Speed Queen one finds square shaped wringer washers so very popular up north. SQ in USA never offered a square tub wringer washer, always round. bidlive.kauctions.ca/INGLIS-ROYA... www.automaticwasher.org/c... Is your head spinning yet? Are you feeling dizzy? *LOL* Then you have: "Around 1970, Simplicity became a division of McGraw-Edison Canada. In 1974, McGraw-Edison moved from Guelph Ave., Hespeler to a service office on Sheldon Drive, Cambridge, and a manufacturing plant on Pinebush Road, Cambridge. McGraw-Edison was briefly taken over by Canadian Admiral Corp. who went into receivership in 1981. In 1982, Canadian Admiral's assets were purchased by Inglis Co., and the factory re-opened in 1984. Inglis made Admiral, Whirlpool, Kitchen-Aid, Kenmore and Inglis brand dryers. In 1990, Inglis became a wholly owned subsidiary of Whirlpool Corp. In 1994, Whirlpool announced closing of the Cambridge Inglis plant and in 1995, the manufacturing plant was shut down with product lines moving to the parent plant in the United States." waterloo.pastperfectonline.com/w... This would likely explain Simplicity wringer washers that look remarkably like SQ pictured in OP link. www.automaticwasher.org/c... SQ wringer in action: | ||
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Post# 1185009 , Reply# 3 7/16/2023 at 06:55 (287 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 1185011 , Reply# 4 7/16/2023 at 08:05 (287 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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@rmps
If bidding is low you should have it, you're just what that wringer washer needs. I mean if something is literally right in your back yard so to speak... There's a nice vintage Maytag dryer as well. hibid.com/lot/163225814/maytag-e... | ||
| Post# 1185014 , Reply# 5 7/16/2023 at 08:53 (287 days old) by rpms (ontario canada) | ||
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Post# 1185018 , Reply# 6 7/16/2023 at 10:21 (287 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thank you, Launderess for the exhaustive tutorial. | ||
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Post# 1185019 , Reply# 7 7/16/2023 at 10:38 (287 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1185021 , Reply# 8 7/16/2023 at 11:33 (287 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Interesting history. As well the town of Hespeler Ontario no longer exists. It along with the towns of Preston and Galt Ontario were amalgamated into what is now Cambridge Ontario in the early 70s. I remember when that happened and imagine the residents of the 3towns weren't too happy losing their autonomy.
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Post# 1185023 , Reply# 9 7/16/2023 at 12:10 (287 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Canadian Admiral, LTD seems to have been an offshoot of Admiral appliances we know of in USA.
Canadian Admiral's demise was sudden and brutal. Not quite unlike (sadly) many factories/manufacturers in USA. www.upi.com/Archives/1981... www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_herstell... www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/Lake... | ||
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Post# 1185141 , Reply# 11 7/17/2023 at 20:18 (286 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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It is telling that of the "Big Five" American appliance makers of 1956; Big Five: General Electric, Westinghouse, Philco. RCA and General Motors' Frigidaire Division, only GE was last man standing. By time General Electric sold off their appliance division to Haier all the rest mentioned were either gone or absorbed into the new giants of appliance manufacturing. Whirlpool and AB Electrolux between them own dozen or more famous brands each.
AVCO saw hand writing on wall in 1956 when it sold off Bendix Home Appliances. "Increasingly severe competition, large over-capacities, rampant price-cutting, rising costs of labor and material." was stated reasons which pretty much is what things came down to for decades to come as one by one both small and large appliance manufacturers were closing or being sold/gobbled up. content.time.com/time/subscriber... From what one understands of Admiral Corporation they were starting to have problems by late 1950's, thus not sure even if they had gotten Bendix Home Appliances it would have made much of a difference. Being able to offer laundry appliances would have made Admiral able to compete in a market where customers wanted entire range of appliances from one brand or company, but other factors such as costs which were killing Admiral still would have existed. www.library.hbs.edu/hc/le... | ||
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Post# 1185163 , Reply# 14 7/18/2023 at 01:07 (285 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Sears/Kenmore had Whirlpool meanwhile Montgomery Ward had Admiral.
Growing up maybe heard name Admiral, but never saw one life and up close. www.automaticwasher.org/c... | ||
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