Hey gang! A while back I picked up a few generic laundry parts catalogs from Master Publications. Within one of the catalogs was a odd section simply called, "Photographs" from a 1960 publication.
It was 18 pages of a few major brands with some pictures of each washer made by that brand, by year. Some of the featured brands included all washers made from 1950 - 1959 (Frigidaire as an example) while others was a hodge-podge colleciton of sorts.
The grouping that caught my interest was two pages of washers for Philco-Bendix, featuring a listing of Economat washers, but amazingly enough a listing of Gyromatic washers!
For the longest time there were hints that 1958 model Gyromatics were made, through various Philco parts catalogs from the 60's as well as some brochure art on various 1958 Philco-Bendix advertisement, but no actual pictures of these machines.
Here's the sheet from that strange Photographs section for the Gyromatics. I've updated the scan to include the MFG years (based on an Avco quick parts reference guide), as well as pictures of the originally missing 1955 and 1956 models.
Time to add the 1958 W-487N to my dream machine list! Anyone out there have one of these final gyros?
In '59 Philco dropped the Gyromatic and ball point Dexter/Philco top loaders and introduced the revised and slimmed down Duomatic, along with the Automagic top loaders.
Ben
It was 18 pages of a few major brands with some pictures of each washer made by that brand, by year. Some of the featured brands included all washers made from 1950 - 1959 (Frigidaire as an example) while others was a hodge-podge colleciton of sorts.
The grouping that caught my interest was two pages of washers for Philco-Bendix, featuring a listing of Economat washers, but amazingly enough a listing of Gyromatic washers!
For the longest time there were hints that 1958 model Gyromatics were made, through various Philco parts catalogs from the 60's as well as some brochure art on various 1958 Philco-Bendix advertisement, but no actual pictures of these machines.
Here's the sheet from that strange Photographs section for the Gyromatics. I've updated the scan to include the MFG years (based on an Avco quick parts reference guide), as well as pictures of the originally missing 1955 and 1956 models.
Time to add the 1958 W-487N to my dream machine list! Anyone out there have one of these final gyros?
In '59 Philco dropped the Gyromatic and ball point Dexter/Philco top loaders and introduced the revised and slimmed down Duomatic, along with the Automagic top loaders.
Ben
And the matching gas dryer, please!
