I am sharing this on the off chance that it has not been enjoyed previously. There are mistakes, but also some neat pictures.
22 Appliance brands that disappeared
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This came up in my feed several days ago. It's fun, but the pronunciation errors (AI?), misspellings on the segment tags (Tain for Tappan!) and photo errors are painful.
Who knew that Norge had a filter flow washer?
Yes, it's a little painful to listen to that guy. Everything was an iconic brand known for its great reliability lasted generations, lol.
Most of those companies went out of business over quality problems, and durability issues and just normal market consolidation and growing.
There are literally hundreds of mistakes in that presentation and some companies are actually still alive and well such as brown stove works.
John
Yes, it's a little painful to listen to that guy. Everything was an iconic brand known for its great reliability lasted generations, lol.
Most of those companies went out of business over quality problems, and durability issues and just normal market consolidation and growing.
There are literally hundreds of mistakes in that presentation and some companies are actually still alive and well such as brown stove works.
John
Hotpoint
I think they got their info mixed up as they were UK washing machines...
I think they got their info mixed up as they were UK washing machines...
I still found it fun to watch just for the pictures alone
rinso
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I loved watching this video. It was so sad to grow into adulthood and watch all of those American brands go away or be sold to offshore companies. The new appliances those companies look good at first, but become junk by the time the warranty has expired. Having said that, WCI, an American company, acquired many companies and turned those brands into junk as well. A buddy of mine and his partner had an old Westinghouse built front-loader from the early 60's. When we bought our White-Westinghouse front-loader the differences were striking. The porcelain top and front door of his, were changed to a painted finish on ours.
angus
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This came up in my YouTube feed also and I had the same reaction as John L. Way too many pronunciation errors, mistakes and it isn't possible that every brand was noted for reliability, etc... I actually posted those comments under the feed itself. I had the same reaction to a similar video on department store chains that have vanished. I don't know who makes these videos but there were so many errors it was laughable. I worked in retail early on and later worked for the accounting firm that audited most of the corporations that owned the stores. so I know a lot about the corporate structures, which company bought other stores from other corporations, regional consolidations of local names and so on, etc... So it was particularly painful to watch this.
I dislike those captions and subtitles, they seem to be written according to phonetic pronunciation, and some words which are names aren't even capitalized...
My daughter's 'HOP' DVD has captioning that is very much like, too...
-- Dave
My daughter's 'HOP' DVD has captioning that is very much like, too...
-- Dave
Westinghouse front load laundry reply number five
hi Eugene, I only ever saw two models of Westinghouse front load washers that had a porcelain top the 1958 custom imperials and the 1965 top-of-the-line Westinghouse washer and dryer actually had a porcelain top, they never had a porcelain door lining or front on the machines. The only porcelain framed door they ever used was on the little round door that was used on the commercial bolt down machines, and the very first slant front where there was a door covering the small loading door that small loading door had a porcelain frame.
Westinghouse quality started hitting the rocks by 1960 even earlier in many appliances they made some great looking stuff. I love many of their machines. I have them in the museum collection, but it was not the Appliance one bought for longevity.
After white industries bought Westinghouse by 1975. The washers and dryers were much better mainly because they didn't have Westinghouse motors anymore, which was always one of the big problems on Westinghouse laundry appliances. They still had lots of problems don't get me wrong. Consumer reports highly rated the Westinghouse front load washer for performance and economy around 1994, but two years later we're recommending against purchase because it was still having so many problems.
John
hi Eugene, I only ever saw two models of Westinghouse front load washers that had a porcelain top the 1958 custom imperials and the 1965 top-of-the-line Westinghouse washer and dryer actually had a porcelain top, they never had a porcelain door lining or front on the machines. The only porcelain framed door they ever used was on the little round door that was used on the commercial bolt down machines, and the very first slant front where there was a door covering the small loading door that small loading door had a porcelain frame.
Westinghouse quality started hitting the rocks by 1960 even earlier in many appliances they made some great looking stuff. I love many of their machines. I have them in the museum collection, but it was not the Appliance one bought for longevity.
After white industries bought Westinghouse by 1975. The washers and dryers were much better mainly because they didn't have Westinghouse motors anymore, which was always one of the big problems on Westinghouse laundry appliances. They still had lots of problems don't get me wrong. Consumer reports highly rated the Westinghouse front load washer for performance and economy around 1994, but two years later we're recommending against purchase because it was still having so many problems.
John
Frigidaire...
What happened to Frigidaire?
What happened to Frigidaire?
Couldn't get through more than a minute or two. These videos are just copy and paste garbage from news sites etc often with an annoying AI voice. As well some of them contain errors on purpose for the sole purpose of getting YOU to go down there in the comments and type something out. That's how Youtube works and the content creator makes money. More views = more money for them. More comments = more money for them.. So when you engage to correct them you're actually monetizing them to carry on
Pete,
That’s a spot on description of these so called informative You Tube videos done by AI. A good 50% of the info is BS.
Eddie
That’s a spot on description of these so called informative You Tube videos done by AI. A good 50% of the info is BS.
Eddie
Many of these brands that so called "disappeared" are still around and or "vanished" because of very sound reasons.
Sunbeam's woes began in 1980's and continued onward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Products#Fraud_investigation_and_bankruptcy
Many other brands mentioned were once part of large corporations or conglomerates that saw their fortunes change or flounder by 1970's or so with decline of American manufacturing and or decimation of that base by foreign imports.
White goods market began to decline by 1970's as once huge and steady post WWII demand began to slow. Increasingly new home sales drove major appliance sales, something that happens still today.
General Motors (Frigidaire) and others got out of appliance business as cost to retool/modernize factories versus forecast sales made such things more than they were worth.
Above and there was a wave of M&A activity as players such as WCI, Maytag and Whirlpool (among others) were on shopping sprees gobbling up competitors or taking things that current owners wanted to get rid of.
Sunbeam's woes began in 1980's and continued onward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Products#Fraud_investigation_and_bankruptcy
Many other brands mentioned were once part of large corporations or conglomerates that saw their fortunes change or flounder by 1970's or so with decline of American manufacturing and or decimation of that base by foreign imports.
White goods market began to decline by 1970's as once huge and steady post WWII demand began to slow. Increasingly new home sales drove major appliance sales, something that happens still today.
General Motors (Frigidaire) and others got out of appliance business as cost to retool/modernize factories versus forecast sales made such things more than they were worth.
Above and there was a wave of M&A activity as players such as WCI, Maytag and Whirlpool (among others) were on shopping sprees gobbling up competitors or taking things that current owners wanted to get rid of.
