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Heads Up! Rare Firestone Dryer
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Wonder if this is a Hamilton dryer?
gocartwasher
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Hope its better
than their tires LOL
than their tires LOL
mayken4now
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Didn't Firestone make only Rubber?????????
I am ignorant as well. Nice machine however.
Steve
I am ignorant as well. Nice machine however.
Steve
Years ago,
Firestone and Goodyear sold white goods, and a small selection of electronics. Some name brand, some private label. One of my aunts, she of the Bendix Duomatic, had a Firestone brand hi-fi. My guess, and it is only a guess, was that they were trying to compete with Sears and WesternAuto.
The last time I saw an appliance at Firestone was a KitchenAid portable dishwasher around 1977. It was the front loading sort with the backsplash controls.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Firestone and Goodyear sold white goods, and a small selection of electronics. Some name brand, some private label. One of my aunts, she of the Bendix Duomatic, had a Firestone brand hi-fi. My guess, and it is only a guess, was that they were trying to compete with Sears and WesternAuto.
The last time I saw an appliance at Firestone was a KitchenAid portable dishwasher around 1977. It was the front loading sort with the backsplash controls.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
The Goodyear dealership here sold GE years ago.
exploder321
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When the old Firestone dealer here flooded out back in 2004, in the upstairs storage room that no one had been into for ages, they found a Firestone Hi Fi, Firestone Freezer NIB and a few other odds and ends from there appliance days.. I whent buy at that time and was able to see all of this.. Of corse. none of it worked or could be saved due to the gas laden waters that swep through.. CR did not have much good to say back in the late 60's buying gudies i have, they where not very good at all (Firestone Freezers)
By the way, Has anyone ever herd of Revco Freezers??? I see one for sale in the want ads here and plan to investigate tommorow.. I also herd this name in either the 1981 or 1982 CR buying guide..
By the way, Has anyone ever herd of Revco Freezers??? I see one for sale in the want ads here and plan to investigate tommorow.. I also herd this name in either the 1981 or 1982 CR buying guide..
Sure looks like
The first GE dryer rebadged too me with no glass window.
The first GE dryer rebadged too me with no glass window.
Firestone seems to have a very wide ranging home appliance line. Pipe:
brettsomers
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did somebody say firestone?
photo *borrowed* from vacuumland.org/t. anderson
photo *borrowed* from vacuumland.org/t. anderson
golittlesport
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That firestone vac is an Apex! Firestone washers were Beam.
Beam it is!
This is the first Speed Queen dryer - electric or gas, circa 1950-51.
The round "port" below the door on the right side is a clean-out hole, there is a pullout drawer-type filter in the kick-space at floor level. From the diagram, it looks to have vented out the back of the machine. The round grille at the top of the dryer is probably an air intake port, the gas models had the burner up in that corner of the cabinet so it may have had another purpose in those - I only have the parts manual for this machine so I'm guessing on that.
This is the first Speed Queen dryer - electric or gas, circa 1950-51.
The round "port" below the door on the right side is a clean-out hole, there is a pullout drawer-type filter in the kick-space at floor level. From the diagram, it looks to have vented out the back of the machine. The round grille at the top of the dryer is probably an air intake port, the gas models had the burner up in that corner of the cabinet so it may have had another purpose in those - I only have the parts manual for this machine so I'm guessing on that.
Both the Firestone and the SQ dryers show lots of APEX characteristics. If you did not know their size, they almost look like portable dryers, but the APEX dryer we picked up was HEAVY. On Ebay I saw a Firestone glass vacuum coffee maker. Our Firestone stores in the Atlanta area sold Philco, as did Economy Auto. It was in the Decatur Firestone store that I found our Hi Speed Duomatic from the last year that they were made. I remember a Firestone window air conditioner from the late 50s. The whole inside grill was a beautiful light aqua green plastic with two big square discharge vents on one side that had wavey louvers. I believe that the two vents could be pulled out slightly and rotated 90 degrees at each turn so that they would snap back in place once the air was directed where desired. The buttons were equally colorful; red & yellow I remember with possibly a black off button.
So I wonder now if these were made by Beam - or Apex...
(the electric model of the Apex does not have the round vent/grille on the upper left corner and there is another model of this without a window in the door)
(the electric model of the Apex does not have the round vent/grille on the upper left corner and there is another model of this without a window in the door)
The only Revco products I've seen were built in refrigerators,usually with the compressor and condenser on top.
Firestone also sold outboard motors.
kennyGF
Firestone also sold outboard motors.
kennyGF
veg-o-matic
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Revco!
I knew I heard that name somewhere (other than the drugstore.) I saw in a catalog somewhere--Bennett Bros.?--a Revco refrigerator that was built into a dinette table. If I remember, it was like a dorm-size fridge and attached to the sides were leaves that flipped up to become a table.
I'll see if I can find the picture again if anyone wants to see it.
veg
I knew I heard that name somewhere (other than the drugstore.) I saw in a catalog somewhere--Bennett Bros.?--a Revco refrigerator that was built into a dinette table. If I remember, it was like a dorm-size fridge and attached to the sides were leaves that flipped up to become a table.
I'll see if I can find the picture again if anyone wants to see it.
veg
Revco seems like a predecessor to SubZero/Marvel/any of the specialty refrigeration providers with counter depth/built-in/etc refrigeration. I remember a friend with a Revco refrigerator builtin at his house.
