Douglas Home Appliances?

[luxflairguy]

Anyone ever hear of this company?
Bought (Ebay) a 1951 gas appliance catalog. Stoves, heaters commercial etc...
One small section of two pages on Douglas automatic gas driers made by the Pennsylvania Range Boiler Co, Philly. Spec pages for a G-10-D and a G-10. Deluxe/standard.
Assume since the rest of the book is 1949-1951, that these are the same time...

Aslo, there are 3 of us "newbies" in the Palm Springs area who are interested in the Tuscon "wash-in" the end of March early April. Could we get more info? Tuscon isn't a long drive for us?

thanks!
Greg

 

[toggleswitch]

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[luxflairguy]

Douglas appliances/AZ wash-in

Mr Toggle...Steve...your HIGHness???

Your pictures don't show you in white tie and tails and that's a must!

thanks for the Arizona info...won't be back from Seattle til one day after it ends!

But no one has answered the question...ever heard of Douglas appliances???

I can't wait to break out my tux!

Greg

 

[tomturbomatic]

Mr. Douglas, did you make that dryer?

Greg, YES! I have seen ads for them in old shelter magazines. If I am not mistaken, they shared a look with the very early Easy & maybe the first APEX dryers; no control panel, dials on the front, rectangular door, very much a dance 10, looks 1 design. I think they talked about vacuum drying and how fabrics shed moisture more quickly in the lower air pressure inside the dryer. Then there was a later one, still Douglas, I believe, that offered the option of lifting the top, under which there was a flat area formed by a metal grid with those sort of flattened diamond perforations where knit items could be fried, I mean dried, flat. Pennsylvania Range Boiler Company. Couldn't they afford an ampersand?

I wonder who made those dopey looking Caloric dryers. They even had a matching washer for a brief time according to one of the old trade mags in the late 50s or early 60s. Then there was that Rheem clothes dryer, another product of Demented Designs and like the Caloric, found only at the gas company show rooms.

 

[Designgeek]

Hmm, vacuum dryers!

Now that's an interesting design concept, if it could be done in full. Put the clothes in a cabinet, seal the door, suck out the air. Should lead to the water evaporating pronto, eh? Has anyone actually tried this? (There are some obvious downsides in terms of what might occur if the seal went bad, but hardly as much trouble as when a conventional dryer catches fire.)