Frigidaire by Whirlpool Dishwashers?

[stevet]

You know, when we go searching for treasure at appliance stores and such, we see something that catches our eye but we pass on it anyway. Well, the first time this happened to me, it was clearly a Frigidaire dishwasher with a large lift up handle to open the door in the middle of the control panel that looked just like the early Wirlpool dishwashers. IIRC, it had buttons and a dial on it. I opened it up and found an interior that looked like the 1980's whirlpool dw's with the large plastic mesh filter in the bottom and was amazed that GM had WP making machines for them.
Too bad I didn't take it home. Probably had nothing really major wrong with it and it would have made a great addition to my collection of dishwashers that sit in my garage and get rotated in and out as spare machines for the main daily driver.

How long did WP make these for GM? It must have been just before they sold off the division to WCI.

 

[toploader55]

Steve...

You're Killing me Here. !!!

 

[appnut]

Well, I've heard of a Tappan with said big handle form the early to mid-1970s WP product.  But it was bol with no buttons.

 

[magic_clean]

Whirlpool

supplied side by side refrigerators many years ago to Frigidaire, but unsure about dishwashers.

L.P.

 

[frigilux]

So... If this is true, then it was a glimpse into the future when Whirlpool would take over most of the US appliance market.

 

[jetcone]

John's gonna be SO HAPPY

to hear all this!! OY!

 

 

[cuffs054]

We put MOL Tappan D/W made by WP in the custom homes we built in the mid 70's. Somewhere late in the decade Tappan switched to DM made machines.

 

[goatfarmer]

I had a mid 80's WP bottom mount refrigerator come through the shop about a year ago. It was badged Frigidaire.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Whirlpool + Frigidaire = Froogidaire or Whirlidaire or Frigipool

 

[cuffs054]

Tom,
you forgot PoolAire

 

[philr]

I know there were GM Frigidaire-badged Whirlpool washers/dryers in Brazil made by Brastemp in the early seventies who also happened to make Whirlpool-clone dishwashers but it's the first time I hear about Frigidaire-badged Whirlpool dishwashers! Whirlpool stopped making dishwasher with the lift-up handle in the mid-seventies.

My sister lives in Brazil, I wish she could find a pair of these for me... But I think it's very unlikely to happen!

 

[philr]

One member here has this dryer. I'd really like to see a closer shot of the drum, control panel and badges!

 

[philr]

Here's a Brastemp dishwasher. I can't tell if they made some for Frigidaire too but it would be nice to know!

 

[philr]

I'm wondering if Frigidaire refrigerators like these were also Whirlpool clones? I know older Frigidaire refrigerators made in Brazil were GM with Meter-Miser compressors but this one, I can't tell!

 

[combo52]

Whirlpool Built Frigidaire Dishwashers

I never saw anything like that here in the US, but who knows. As Leslie mentioned GM Frigidaire did source their TOL water and ice dispensing 26 cubic foot side by side refrigerators from WP for a few years before the Frigidaire name was sold to WCI and all the FD factories were closed.

 

Even though I generally liked Frigidaire s SXSs it was really neat to see the GMFD name on such a high quality refrigerator, and when it was sitting next to the regular FD refrigerators on showroom floors it really made the them look cheap and poorly built, these WP built SXSs even still had a real porcelain of steel interior something that FD abandoned around 1970.

 

I can only imagine that if FD had started sourcing their DWs and a few other appliances from WP and possibly others in the 1970s that GM might not even had to sell off and close the Frigidaire brand as their DW and 24" laundry Center were by far their two worst products.

 

[philr]

John,

I'd really like to know which refrigerator models were made by Whirlpool. Do you have pictures of one or a model number?

I guess they had rotary compressors too but built by Whirlpool?

I never had a 1970's GM Frigidaire, I wasn't aware they didn't have porcelain interiors. The Canadian factory closed in 1970 and we didn't get many after that here. The only ones I have seen from the 1970's were in the US (when I got my Agitub washer in Saranac Lake NY, there was still an Avocado Frost-Proof top-freezer frigidaire in that house and another similar one in Harvest Gold where I got Roger's range and my 1975 Dishwasher near Rochester NY.

I'm mostly interested in the bottom freezer models and I have never seen one newer than 1964 here. I'm wondering if the large bottom-freezer models were still produced or sold in Canada after 1964 as I have seen a few of each year between 1959 and 1964 but none of the newer models that I'd like to get so much (those with the electric door opener like you have!).

If anyone has a lead to something like that for sale, let me know!

 

[goatfarmer]

Phil, I'll get a pic of that  1968 Frigidaire bottom freezer I have, and post it here. I should be able to get that tomorrow.

 

[philr]

Update on the first post of this thread!

Steve, did it look like that?

 

See the link:

Brazilian Frigidaire dishwasher!

Look at this! There were threads about Whirlpool/Bratemp rebadges. This one seem to be one too! http://www.bomnegocio.com/rio_de_janeiro/rio_de_janeiro_e_regiao/lava_loucas_frigidaire_16902691.htm

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