100 year old Whirlpool washer

[askolover]

don't know how long this link will last but look at the 'agigator' in the bottom!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-WHI...466?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item233c9d9082

 

[mrb627]

Ha!

Looks like the first Cabrio machine!

Malcolm

 

[mrb627]

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[combo52]

Very Old WP Washer

I dough that it is a hundred years old, but it is getting close.

I knew that these impeller machines were a good idea all along, LOL.

 

[danemodsandy]

Easy To Confuse the Age:

Spray 'n Wash damage on their painted tops made a lot of Whirlpools look a hundred years old!

 

[kenmore71]

If I had to guess, I would say this machine was manufactured between 1929 and the beginning of WWII.

 

The machine was manufactured by the 1900 Corporation of Binghamton, NY. This company was formed in 1929 from the merger of the Upton Machine Company and the 1900 Washer Company. 

 

This merged company was later renamed the Whirlpool Corporation in 1950.

 

[philr]

The pics from the auction.

 

[jetcone]

What a beautiful old machine

and now FYNALLY the "Whirlpool" is explained to me !!

 

That impeller would make a whirlpool washing system !! That explains how they got from the 1900 company to the Whirlpool company and the trade name stuck !! 

 

[rpms]

How would the agitator work? Would it go back and forth or in one direction for a bit and then swing back?

 

[ovrphil]

Same Question

came to mind, how did that agitator work - 180 to the right, 180 degrees to the left, or incremental back and forth to complete a 360 degree circle in its back and forth action(I know, a little elaborate, perhaps).

I tried to find another one like it - no luck.

 

[tolivac]

Looks so much like a modern HE TL washer with a similar impeller!Would be neat to see this work.That big,single blade/vane looks menencing!And it looks like the "agitator" is made of metal,not plastic!-And--its modern looking SS tank!Another thought--does this machine really fill all the way with water?

 

[jetcone]

I bet it fills half way

like my Easy wringer and I bet it whirls around making the "cleaning whirlpool" ! No nasty "blades" scrubbing back and forth to damage clothing!!

 

 

 

[combo52]

Old WP Impeller Style Washer

These only filled up 1/3 of the way up to meet Energy Star regulations Rex, LOL, it was limited by a hidden micro-chip board underneath.

 

[philr]

John,
By any chance, do you have some NOS spare water level microchip control boards for these? If this important electronic part fails, how can someone still use that machine?!

LOL!

 

[tolivac]

If the board fails-wire around it!!!!Then you can have the machine fill as much as you want!or flood the house with it!Neat to see Whirlpool and some others have gone full circle---Start out with the impellor--than today-end up with it again and thimble full amounts of water-so the agitator or impellor is paddling around just damp clothes in modern machines-but least you got some water in that older machine.If all else-just fill the machine with a bucket!