The tub in these is the size of a large mixing bowl. You might pack a pair of king sheets into it, but it would not do much washing of them; one at a time is more like it with the pillow cases washed with the fitted bottom sheet. One of the reasons that these machines did not clean well was that the tub or drum is so small that it allowed little actual tumbling and had no room for actual movement of the individual items, WHEN LOADED TO CAPACITY. Even though they had to be bolted down, the spin speed is so slow that Consumer Reports stated that a wringer removed more water. At the time that was written, people who did laundry were very familiar with the amount of water a wringer left in fabrics. Bendix literature stated that the washer left the proper amount of moisture in fabrics so that, when hung out to dry, there was sufficient moisture to allow the sunlight to do natural bleaching of the laundry. I think that meant that the laundry would be on the line for most of the day. Be that as it may, the early Bendix machines were only only a slight step above the non-Bendix washer-dryer combinations at water extraction so you had a heavy load to carry out to the line and an expensive amount of moisture to evaporate in the dryer.
