Combo Thread!

[peteski50]

Norge Combo!

The above looks very interesting - I would love to see closeups of that control panel. Does anyone know if that is a dispenser on top? Anyone with any experience with this combo?
Thanks
Peter

 

[appnut]

Neighbors 3 houses away from us had a Norge Combo.  I only visited their house once, maybe twice at the most.  They were transferred back to California mot too soon after this particular visit I do vividly remember.  So that was probably I only got to see it once or maybe twice.  I had to have been somewhere between the age of 7 and 9.  It reminded me of the 20 pound front loaders I'd seen at the Norge Cleaning Village we'd go to for dry cleaning and such.  While my parents and neighbors visited or played bridge, I'd go into the laundry room and open the door and spin the tub around and play washing machine.  But I wasn't tall enough to see the control panel very well at all.  They also had a KDS14 VariCycle in the kitchen.  That was most memorable in and of itself too.  The racks reminded so much of our Waste King in some ways.  But I remeber thinking how much bigger the spray arm was than in our WK.  also, the 3 buttons were various colors as opposed to the WK's white buttons with black lettering.  As I think back on it now, the housewife sure was nice to let me just go back and forth between that combo and the KA.   they had one baby at the time and I never did forget their last name. 

 

[peteski50]

Norge Combo!

This is not like the above one but probably a earlier model. I found it in the archives. Looks interesting.

 

[peteski50]

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[revvinkevin]

GREAT posts guys.... keep-um coming!

 

 

Here are a few (clears throat) from the collection of the Combo hoarder himself..... Combo52.

 

The "Combo wall" as I call it.

 

From left... Whirlpool, Speed Queen, Kenmore (x2), Lady Kenmore (x2), Westinghouse, Bendix and Philco-Bendix.

 

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A better look at the Speed Queen combo.

 

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One of the KM combos..... a 1962 or 1963 perhaps?

 

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The Westinghouse Wash-n-Dry Laundromat combo.

 

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One of the early Bendix combos ('53 or '54?)

 

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Full-Frontal

 

 

I believe this is a year newer then Ben's-dix because it's a Philco-Bendix.

 

 

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In the other part of the "museum" a late 60's - early 70's GE combo.

 

(I want one of these!)

 

 

 

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And.......

 

A Philco Duomatic!

 

 

 

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The beautiful 1965 Lady Kenmore combo at John's home (being used!)

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Love those pics, Kevin. I missed that get together much to my dismay!

Don't worry! One of those GE combos will make it's way to you someday. I'm sure of it!

RCD

 

[jetcone]

How does that work

4 ball bearings in the front of the tub???

I want a NORGE!

 

[Jsneaker]

Thanks SO MUCH, Guys!!!

I just want to thank Peter & Kevin for the wonderful photos, and other guys for helping me out! It means a lot to me. Peter, what "archives" are you referring to, that you delved-into? I know many of you guys have access to stuff I am not able to see for myself. Jason

 

[peteski50]

Archives!

Jason you can lookup anything on this club that was previously posted.
Select super surgulator surch and type in anything you may want to lookup.
I can give you more detail when we chat.
Peter

 

[washerlover]

And here's my poor '65 Lady K still waiting for restoration...having difficulty trying to find a suitable replacement for the existing main filter hose. Other than that, she runs just fine and is in excellent shape.

 

[Jsneaker]

Nice Lady Kenmore, Todd!

That WD is BYOOOOOOTIFUL! One day, maybe I will get to try one of those, one of my two favorite combos-the other is the '60's Philco Duomatic. What I would suggest is that you drop an old sheet or cover over that gem to keep it as clean as you can from dust, etc., especially in a garage!