conventional washers are all but wrung out!
Like Maytagbear pointed out, Lehman's sells a machine that's a reworked Speed Queen...and I think was originally intended for Latin American markets...
but Maytag officially stopped making wringer washers in 1983. In fact, I believe Maytag and Speed Queen were the last washer makers to make wringer machines on a regular basis in America.
I think most other wringer manufacturers ended production sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, since Philco-Ford was still making wringers as late as 1969 (before they sold the laundry line to, of all companies, Dexter!) and wringers pretty well disappeared after that.
Wringers, remember, weren't all that efficent compared to even the worst automatics when it came to doing a week's worth of laundry in one day. (Ironically, my mother used a late-40's twin-tub Dexter until she bought her first automatic (a "Magic Minute" Kelvinator) in 1963. I remember she used one tub for suds and the other for rinsing and it was actually pretty efficient!)
On the Consumer Reports article, not all the machines tested met the 2007 standards and some lines weren't available to test at the time of the report.
Charlie
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