GE Tries To Unload Appliance Business

[norgeway]

Re Cost!!!

You are right...im just wishing something vintage could be new again!!!! But really, if you consider how much stuff cost in the 50s...most things were really expensive...tvs and appliances etc!!! for instance I have a Frigidaire brochure from 54 and in it the tol 40 inch range price was written in on the margin at 459.00!!!! imagine how much that would be now!!!!!Cars were cheaper...my parents bought a 53 Plymouth in 55 with 9000 miles on it for 650.00!!!!!!

 

[pierreandreply4]

my toughs is this

Me i think the demand in used appliances for good old fashion ge filter flo will be hi not counting that alot will look on craiglist ect or estate sale for something like this and other vintage ge appliance and credit to some of the aw members who pictures i am using

 

[launderess]

This is where GE makes their money.

Appliances are an after thought almost for General Electric these days...

 

[d-jones]

In view of the post above left by laundress

The Challenger 601 3A that I used to maintain had two GE CF34 high bypass turbofans on it, and they were excellent engines. If they had any weakness at all it was the micro-switches at either end of the cascade vane type thrust reverser's travel limits. The power to weight ratio on those aircraft is really impressive. For example, we had another Challenger out at the blast fence for an engine run up where we brought the engines to 95%. The two mechanics in the cockpit were both bearing down hard on the brakes, but it had rained a bit earlier and the asphalt was wet, so the aircraft literally began to slowly slide forward. I'd never seen that before so it caught me by surprise. I radioed the guys in the cockpit and they backed off the throttles long enough for me to jam some heavy rubber chocks in place in front of the mains. Problem solved, but still, very impressive. Occasional thrust reverser problems were the only issues I ever had with those engines.

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[tolivac]

And don't forget the GE AC traction locomotives built at their plant in Erie,Pa!One of the few major locomotive builders still in the US.GM's EMD plant in LaGrange,Ill was closed many years ago and the production moved to Canada.The GE locomotive is more advanced then the EMD model.Both are based on AC motor traction technoloy using VFD invertors for the traction motors.The GE locomotives use one invertor per axle-the EMD one invertor per truck.So if an inverttor fails on the EMD version you loose half your pulling power.On the GE only one axle.These are rapidly replacing DC traction loco's.Yes,with this GE jet engines and locomotives,they are strong in the transportation industry.Are the jet motors built in the US-where is the plant?We can say jet engines and locomotives would have to be REALLY large appliances!!Some of GE's locomotives partener with German technology-Seimens motors and invertors and Deutz diesel engines.