Heads Up! Rare Firestone Dryer

[launderess]

Now this is something I've not seen before.

L

http://cgi.ebay.com/Firestone-Autom...ryZ13596QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[gansky1]

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.

 

[appnut]

Wonder if this is a Hamilton dryer?

 

[sudsman]

I had no idea Firestone had a dryer.

Whis they would ship it .

BOB : Could be a Hamilton thats the right years I think/

 

[gocartwasher]

Hope its better

than their tires LOL

 

[mayken4now]

Didn't Firestone make only Rubber?????????

I am ignorant as well. Nice machine however.

Steve

 

[maytagbear]

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

 

[DADoES]

The Goodyear dealership here sold GE years ago.

 

[exploder321]

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..

 

[alr2903]

out in left

It looks like a rebadged SQ to me?

 

[jetcone]

Sure looks like

The first GE dryer rebadged too me with no glass window.

 

[launderess]

Firestone seems to have a very wide ranging home appliance line. Pipe:

http://www.tias.com/11126/PictPage/1922960300.html#images

 

[brettsomers]

did somebody say firestone?

photo *borrowed* from vacuumland.org/t. anderson

 

[golittlesport]

That firestone vac is an Apex! Firestone washers were Beam.

 

[tomturbomatic]

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.

 

[gansky1]

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)

 

[goatfarmer]

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

 

[veg-o-matic]

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

 

[jamiel]

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.

 

[exploder321]

I would love to see the picture of the fridge table..

 

[mavei511]

When I was a kid in the Sixties we had a mid-to late 50s Firestone electric dryer.There was no console.It was just a white box with a red 120 min. timer knob(script graphics) on top on the upper right hand corner,just like the flattop GE machines (and some BOL economy Kenmores). Metal "Firestone" insignia above the door on middle front.
It had the unusual feature of having the element wrapped around the entire drum,(between the outer drum and an inner preforated metal screen,as I had heard of some early Hamilton machines had. The inner screen prevented contact with the clothes. The door had a small round mushroom-shaped knob,about the size of later Maytags.There was no window. The lint filter was a black rectangular box attached to the exhaust vent,a separate accessory not integral to the dryer. Even at 5600w.@220v.,it was very slow and took 2 hours to dry clothes. It wasn't miswired. Someone on this board said that it was manufactured by Franklin.
We replaced it with a matched Maytag set with a GAS dryer.

 

[irishwashguy]

i wonder if they will re-list it? Coos bay is not that far from here.I have no place to have a colection till I move into my new place.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The heating element was not totally around the perforated drum, but in an arch over the top 1/2 to 1/3 of the circumferance. They drew the air through the chamber and called the principle, vacuum drying, I think. They were trying to play on the scientific principle that water changes state from liquid to vapor faster in a vacuum. In looking over some literature, the Simplex dryer says it was made by Speed Queen and the Thor dryer looks similar. I will try to do some scanning later.