Cool Easy never seen before

[jetcone]

this one has a window lid! Has anyone ever seen this model?? 1940.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940-VINTAG...12137?pt=Washing_Machines&hash=item2eb7cf4e49

 

[tomturbomatic]

It looks more like some of the British designed wringer washers.

 

[mickeyd]

NO, and not only does it heat, but....

rewinds the cord (love that), has an automatic timer, a "Visomatic" wringer with slots to watch the items, a germocidal lamp and they'll deliver it free for Christmas Eve wrapped in gay cellophane tied with a red bow. Who could resist?

 

What the hell is gay cellophane? LOL

 

Woulda thunk, Brit, too, till I saw that it was advertised in "The Saturday Evening Post."

 

Looks like something we'd hope to find in the corner of an old Manhattan basement. OH LAUNDERESS, please start the search.

 

[gansky1]

All that and a water heater!

 

[vacbear58]

British?

Soory guys, no way could this be a British designed machine - it is FAR more advance than anything that would have been seen here in 1940, nothing to approach it really until the early 1950s. It would have been interesting to see how this machine might have fared if WW2 had not taken place as it seems to have features not even seen on the spin drier models. Well one more to add to the wanted list

Al

 

[arbilab]

Gotta wonder how Easy--AKA Syracuse Washing Machine Company--failed to the point of falling into the hands of White Consolidated Industries after almost a century of being at the leading edge of design and mechanical integrity.

 

[laundromat]

A friend of mine sent me a birthday card around 1985 that has this model on it with a woman gleeming her eyes over it. No description other than the name plat on its wringers but I was impressed with its looks.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Vacbear, It was the shape that looked like a British machine, not the features. Sorry for the crossed message.

Cellophane was quite the novel item--clear like glass, but flexible like paper or foil. It's mentioned in the song "You're the Top" which is full of inuendo by the gay Cole Porter.

You're the top!
You're Mahatma Gandhi.
You're the top!
You're Napoleon Brandy.
You're the purple light
Of a summer night in Spain,
You're the National Gallery
You're Garbo's salary,
You're cellophane.
You're sublime,
You're turkey dinner,
You're the time, the time of a Derby winner
I'm a toy balloon that’s fated soon to pop
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!

Of course, you have to hear Ethel Merman sing it for best effect.

As its name implies, it is regenerated cellulose and was invented in 1912.

 

[mickeyd]

Exactly

We didn't have square heating washing machines and envied our Friends across the Sea who do. And now we see indeed we did. Now to find one.

 

Cellophane ~ LOL I have a ton of it here; alas, mine is all straight!

!

 

[vacbear58]

Brits

Tom

No probs - I can see the point you are making about this lovely machine - ironically in the late 1930s we seem to have had quite a few American imports.

The following pictures are taken from a 1939 catalogue (courtesey 74Simon)

First off a native Brit - A Goblin

 

[vacbear58]

Brit And American

This is the first sign of the Hotpoint model that came to be known as the Empress - the one that had, at one time, an octagional tub.

Beside it, Apex models

 

[vacbear58]

Another American

It took 20 years (more or less) for twin tubs to catch on here

Goblin and Vactric were both better known for vacuum cleaners although both produced wringer washers in the 1950s too. Vactric also sold the Apex Airflow vacuum as their TOL upright cleaner - my guess is that they were imported rather than manufactured here.

Al

 

[jetcone]

Thats a cool machine

didn't notice the germicidal lamp there!!

 

[mickeyd]

Yeah,

it had a zoom function and you can read the whole article. Still can't believe we had these in NYC. Gotta be a few still in seclusion awaiting

the Aworg Search and Rescue Team.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Easy Does It...

wow, doesnt that Easy washer come "Fully Loaded" as Al says nothing like that over here to the 50`s and then still no cord rewind or window, the nearesr thing we had was the English Electric "Wash & Rinse", you did all your washing and then filled with running water whilst pumping out and did flo rinsing - that was the idea, I only ever saw one neighbour using it like that, much fun though!!

Would the bottom drawer be a powder storage draw do you think??

 

[chestermikeuk]

Primitive

Hi Al, dont those washers, boilers and spinners seem so primitive looking back, hard to imagine how far we have progressed in such a short time!!

Wonder what the next 70yrs will bring!!

 

[jetcone]

oH Mike

The next 70 years will bring that Ultrasonic washer that June had on "Lost In Space"! It'll do the laundry then spit back everything folded and wrapped in plastic!!

Cool thing I remember it was a pedestal console machine!!! - Why it was outside the spaceship on the sand was beyond me!

 

[mickeyd]

Why it was outside the spaceship on the sand was beyond me!

Because washing outside is so much fun, as you well know, having rigged several of them yourself, not to mention C. MIke & Co.'s outside wash houses and patios.

 

How did I ever miss June's machine. Do you know what episode?

 

Ya know, before realizing that the offering allowed blow up to read the text, I'm staring at all the controls wondering why there were so many of them. Little did I suspect one was for heating and another for the germ killing lamp.

 

[Ultramatic]

Maureen selecting the fluff ´n fold cycle



 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Not sure of the episode where it appears though, sorry. </span>

 

[mickeyd]

Wow! A Wacomat with a keyboard ;'D

God, you're good. Any frontals available?