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Thread Number: 97942
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Challenge C-WD - The 1957 Kenmore Turbo-Matic - 16mm Film |
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Post# 1228957 4/16/2025 at 08:39 by cadman  (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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New this week from The Appliance Archive, it's the story of the 1957 Kenmore Turbo-Matic washer/dryer.
I have a hunch Whirlpool wasn't waiting around for Sears to pitch the idea to them, but it's still a fun plot. If you're a Kenmore fan, it doesn't get much better than this. CLICK HERE TO GO TO cadman's LINK
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Post# 1228964 , Reply# 1 4/16/2025 at 10:20 by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass) |
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Take that LG turbowash.....It's all been done before....and in America!!!! | ||
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Post# 1228965 , Reply# 2 4/16/2025 at 10:23 by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass) |
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Thanks Cory for all these wonderful trips down memory lane. So much of this has been done before. Everything old is new again! Looking forward to more like this. Thanks again! | ||
| Post# 1228968 , Reply# 3 4/16/2025 at 10:38 by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1228982 , Reply# 4 4/16/2025 at 11:53 by peteski50 (New York) |
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Kenmore Turbo-Matic | ||
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Post# 1228984 , Reply# 5 4/16/2025 at 12:15 by Maytagmike (Burlington, Vt) |
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Kenmore turbo-matic | ||
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Post# 1229006 , Reply# 7 4/16/2025 at 14:32 by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 1229012 , Reply# 8 4/16/2025 at 16:15 by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 1229014 , Reply# 9 4/16/2025 at 16:31 by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 1229019 , Reply# 10 4/16/2025 at 17:28 by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1229092 , Reply# 11 4/17/2025 at 16:31 by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Between Whirlpool and Sears presenting their C-WD challenge in beautiful Kodachrome and Betty helping Robert showcase the ‘47 Frigidaire, we certainly have been treated with some amazing footage and fun this week on AW! Thanks for putting the time and effort to bring this 23 minute masterpiece to life.
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Post# 1229146 , Reply# 12 4/18/2025 at 07:38 by Combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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The whirlpool Kenmore combination washer challenge
Thanks, Cory for reviving this great piece of history enjoyed watching it quite a bit.
You can see that whirlpool put quite a bit of effort into their original combo, even though it wasn’t a total success. The amazing thing is they went back to the drawing board and completely designed a second generation combo that was almost completely different The second generation 1961 combo, they threw out the design parameters that they didn’t want it to be any bigger than their standard washing machine and again hold just as much. They also got the speed of the whole process up by increasing the spin speed. They retained the automatic water heating wow greatly increasing the reliability and longevity of the machine. I always thought it was too bad that everybody discontinued their combos by the early 70s, which was exactly the time when baby boomers were coming of age and there was a huge number of smaller families condominiums, etc. where these machines would’ve been ideal for the way people started to live and still live today. The good news for full size combination washer dryers is the new units that are coming on the market are selling pretty well, especially to builders of large apartment buildings and such where the energy savings of a heat pump combo the low installation cost of installing just one machine and no 240 V or gas lines or exterior vents are needed anymore, these machines are becoming very popular, let alone the convenience they offer their users. John L | ||
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Post# 1229153 , Reply# 13 4/18/2025 at 09:49 by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan & Palm Springs, CA) |
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 I hadn't thought about the benefit in an apartment building.
Have a friend who has in the past owned a 12 unit apartment building. He schemed for years to figure out how to get laundry into the units as it got him $50 more a month (I don't recall the numbers, but it was a slam dunk). To be able to do that with a full size name brand single unit without drilling would be great. | ||
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Post# 1229592 , Reply# 14 4/22/2025 at 20:33 by Helicaldrive (St. Louis) |
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I wish that salesman Would talk me into something. | ||
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