1947 Jacobs Launderall

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Here here Sandy!!!! VERY well put!

 

 

I agree with you 100 percent!!!

 

I've seen it too many times before... and it has affected me directly on one or two occasions when I had an interest in a machine that came up for sale.

 

When I see some exciting machine (like this), I may posts my "excitement" about it, but I don't want to effect someone's chance at aquiring it.

 

I really think people forget this is a totally public forum which can be viewed by anyone anywhere, not just a private club that only we can see.

 

Kevin
 
 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Well, if there is something I've learned here, it's to never post and comment about a machine that you are interested in purchasing yourself. In a blink of an eye, someone else will grab it. So much for courtesy.</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">So shrieking aside, lets be honest here, this machine was never going to be a bargain. It's going to go to the one with the deepest pockets.  End of story.
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History

Here is the story:

This washer was found in an old appliances store in 1983. We suppose it haven't been sold because of it's high price, 399 Canadian dollars in 1947 (wrote on the AD).
We bought it and never used it to keep it original.
 
Gosh !

I've had several people yield machines to me, and I have yielded a few myself. Most recently Greg alerted me to a machine we both wanted that I didn't know was still available. Have found that to be the rule here rather than the exception.

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You so have to wonder at the demented reasoning behind locating the timer in the transmission. The one I touched as a kid left me cold because you could not really watch the clothes tumbling. That was in the late 50s, though, and it was still working so some of them must have worked or must have been re-engineered to work. I am sure that if the mother and I had been in the kitchen together, I would have found out a lot of information. Instead it was their teenage children, me, at about 9 or 10 and my little brother, a conversational condition like a wheel with missing spokes: hard to get rolling smoothly.
 
That's great that Paul's on the case. With his pics, his texts, it'll all end well. And he can tell hubby it's a giant cheese grater-refrigerator which is exactly what that tub looks like.
 
Oh, having read the horror story associated to Jon's Launderall, I did skip this thread! And I didn't even think it could be in our neighborhood! 
 
Front load, schumk load, top load tumbler the best

I have one, found it 25 years ago bolted with 12" bolts about 25 years ago. Have yet to see one show up in anyone else collection. It's one of a kind, not made for more than a couple of years. Very short run for all the toolup to produce it. Google Jacob's, facinating story.

The F. L. Jacobs Company, A Soda Machine Company

F. L. Jacobs originally specialized in manufacturing home appliances like the Jacobs Launderall washing machine out of Detroit, Michigan. They began manufacturing soda vending machines for Coca-Cola in the 1940’s from a plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. Their machines have a unique shape referred to by collectors as the “mailbox” shape. They are believed to be one of the few manufacturers that the Coca-Cola Company authorized to continue making Coca-Cola soda vending machines in limited quantities through the course of WWII. Like all machines made in that time, they had large capacities for serving the workers in the wartime factories. One of these was the enormous J-144. It weighed 580 lbs. without any soda in it and measured 65”H x 34”W x 35”D.

Nothing more interesting than our American manufacturing cities and companies, with all that "WAR" money.
 
Speaking of war money, Jacobs was ordered to--and did repay--$15M in war money. The company didn't last long after that, roughly 2 years (1951-1953).

We can see how that might have happened. If their war materiel worked proportionally as well as their $3000 washer. Seems Coke machines were the only thing they ever got workably right.
 
A slightly distressed Jacobs for $900

 

 

In coppertone?   More like heavy rust-tone.

 

This is the same guy in LA with the overpriced Maytag set.   This has been relisted on eBay the last few months... and like the Maytag set, I doubt they'll go anywhere at those prices, IMHO.

Kevin 
 
The only thing distressing about the Launderall on ebay is the asking price...

I dare someone to hit the "make an offer" button and offer him what it's really worth and see what he comes back with.
 
I dare someone to hit "make an offer"

If it's anything like the Maytag set he's attempting to sell, he will respond with $25 or $50 off his asking price (The Maytag set was $100 off).

Been there, done that.

Kevin
 
More pictures

I took some better pictures yesterday, the white balance was bad on the others

It is not for sale now, but it will be in the next weeks. I'll let you know :)

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