FIRST WP-KM ELECTRONIC DRY DRYER
The first such dryer from WP corp was the 1965 LK dryers, although they came out with a second version of the 1964 LK dryer around 1965 that had the same control system. I have a turquoise 1964 LK pair and the dryer is electronically controlled it was made the 22nd week of 1965. It used a control made by Texas Instruments the same system used by Frigidare, it was much more satisfactory than MTs system as the user could select from about 8 different dryness levels. It was also much more reliable than MTs system, at the MT home appliance store I worked at we never even saw one have a problem until the late 1970s, mean while we were always fixing the MTs. It got to the point where my bosses would tell me not to push the electronic dry MTs on the sales floor. In the 1970s MT did not pay the dealer labor on warranty calls we ran so there problems cost us money, they of corse provided free replacement parts. Every defective part had to be tagged and returned and by the end of the month we usually had a pretty good pile to send back.