It looks like photo#5 is showing a container where the user could pour bluing into it to add it to the final rinse. See the lettering designating “blue rinse”. This something I’ve never seen before.
There used to be a video on YouTube of someone using this type of machine, but I'll be danged if I can find it now. The guy had problems with the motor not starting by the end of the video.
I think that's showing a valve with 3 positions: suds, blue, rinse. Presuming it has something to do with diverting the spin water in a different direction or recirculating somehow.
Easy wasn't alone in producing twin tub/spin dryer washers.
General Electric and others also had offerings pre-WWII. Easy was one of few who kept things going, most others either abandoned semi for fully automatic washers, went out of business, etc.
Somewhere on that washer must be stamping with a clue if not name of manufacturer.
"This twin tub model, named the 'Easy', was made throughout the 1920s and 1930s, but was originally patented in 1912. It was the basis of the later standard twin-tub washing machine, and at the time represented a major advance in washing-machine design. The machine is made from enamelled metal and stainless steel, and features two tubs set in a triangular frame. It has rinse and spin dry options, with settings marked 'blue', 'suds' and 'rinse'. The larger tub is the agitator tub and the smaller tub acted to rinse and spin the clothes. The washing machine stands 98.2 cm high, is 104.4 cm in length and 62.0 cm wide. The Syracuse 'Easy' featured vacuum-cup technology, which helped force soapy water through clothes."
Electric 32 volt washing machine manufactured by Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation in New York, United States of America, circa 1920s. The manufacturer who made the washing machine was originally formed in 1877 as Dodge & Zuill. The name Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation was used...
Here in the United States that machine would have been made by Landers, Frary, and Clark. Whether it was imported to Australia or possibly made there under a different name altogether I do not know. For a time, that odd agitator was a signature of LFC, along with that very large, half-donut tub lip. I believe this agitator was used all the way into the late 30s by which time the Universal brand was using Apex built washing machines, possibly others too.
Green 'Universal' electric washing machine and spin dryer made by Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut, USA and obtained at the Wembley Exhibition in 1924.
Although by the looks of it mine might appear to be missing some parts, is there a possibility that I could potentially either build or swap in some sort of transmission for the agitator?
On a related note, cause this washing machine is currently going for AU$200, should I try and knock the price down a bit?
Quite honestly they should be paying you to take that clapped out (no offence) heap away.
They've got no shame some people. In present condition that washer is neither use nor ornament. You've got possible scrap value and that's all really.
Don't know if Landers, Frary, and Clark actually built these washers, or where they sourced from someone else. If latter you may be able to find parts by broadening search to include any possible "cousins".
As this washing machine is considered the universal brand So I’m sure that I could probably try and make something work Riley is definitely want to go down there and have a look at it in person