Have You Ever Seen a Dryer Like This Before?

[trainguy]

I have never seen this brand before.

 

[trainguy]

Suburban Automatic Dryer

how interesting

 

[trainguy]

and it uses LP gas!

 

[trainguy]

Drying Instructions

are on the inside of the door!

 

[trainguy]

If anyone is interested in it, let me know and I'll save it for you. Otherwise, I think Rege is going to scrap it.

 

[tlee618]

Rich, that sure is one I have never heard of, wonder if there was a matching washer ever. I am guessing the little door on the top left is for the gas pilot??? Terry

 

[jamiel]

This was probably a mid-50s dryer...Suburban was a brand of built-in cooking and small furnace (wall furnaces, RV furnaces, etc)...had friends with built in Suburban gas oven/cooktop...subdivision built in late 50s.

 

[easyspindry]

Here in the Sau-yuth

Suburban was a brand of propane gas, and they sold gas appliacnes such as refrigerators, cook stoves, furnaces, and clothes dryers. They haven't been around for a while.

Jerry Gay

 

[toggleswitch2]

Makes sense. The gas-type used is indicated on this machine as LP [Liquified Propane i.e. bottled] gas.

Not sure if I "LOVE" propane for dryers, in general. Yellow-tipped flame means carbon output.

 

[mihi]

and they still make.....

and I think Suburban still make small gas furnaces for campers and such.

 

[goatfarmer]

There is an RVP/Suburban Mfg., in Elkhart, Indiana, that makes RV heaters and such.