A 'Lovell' wringer?

[redcarpetdrew]

Who was Lovell? Where was this made and when or was it made by someone else and renamed?

RCD

http://reno.craigslist.org/app/3856241830.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

Lovell was a brand of wringer used on different brands of wringer washers. They had a reputation for safety and effectiveness at a time when many washers had cheap or less safe wringers and everyone knew wringers were inherently dangerous. Everyone knew stories of awful accidents with wringers from just a moment of inattention, maybe while listening to a soap opera while doing laundry. Many people were making wringer washers and offering them under different brand (or off brand) names, but saying a brand of washer had a Lovell wringer assured potential buyers that there was a bit of quality and safety about the machine. To give you an ideal of the situation, there were ads strictly for Lovell wringers in domestic magazines of the 30s and 40s, even into the early 50s. Sometimes they would even list brands of washers that featured them.

 

[launderess]

Lovell "Wringers" Predated Washing Machines

Pipe:

http://www.beattymuseum.org/lovell_wringer.html

 

[launderess]

Lovell Manufacturing Even Made Vermin Traps

Along with a whole array of things:

http://oldtimeerie.blogspot.com/2013/03/erie-rat-trap-by-lovell-mfg-co.html

 

[crevicetool]

Universal was among those.....

that used Lovell made wringers....

(Note the use of wooden bearings at bottom center of the page.)

 

[crevicetool]

Here's a view of the machine. Taken from the Home Laundry Review put out by Landers Frary & Clark - 1941

 

[abcomatic]

Dexter

The washer in the picture looks like it could be a Dexter? The rolls have been removed from the wringer housing. If I could see the adgitator, I could get a better idea.

 

[mickeyd]

Well, will you look at her?

A Universal Automatic was in my orbit as a kid. The name had a huge aura about it it for me,,,,,,."Universal".......like it was very big and important in my little kid mind. Always wondered about the wringer.

She is big and important. Look at all the features. But the white hose really gilds the lily. How often so we see a white hose?

Every time we see an older wringer with an automatic timer, we think, Oh ! this has got to be the first, but then the date just keeps getting earlier, 1941 ! What next?

Thanks, Rick.

Sooner or later, one of these gems will get unearthed.