I want a Duo-Load Dammit!

[ingliscanada]

Bajaespuma

Thanks for clarifying me on that. Do you know if Hotpoint restyled their trannys several times prior to 72, or just use the same one throughout their early period? And did the dryers before 69 share nothing from GE whatsoever? I just thought the mechanical layout looked familiar. In the ad you showed me, I can tell that the dryer is now pure GE, and that kickplate is framing that GE front air intake. And of course that full-width door.

 

[bajaespuma]

I don't know anything about Hotpoint transmissions. I do know that old styled Hotpoint dryers, like the ones in my pictures, are NOTHING like GE dryers of the same period. In fact, some folks on this site have said that the GE Big Boy dryers evolved from Hotpoints, and now that I've taken my Big Boy apart, I see absolutely nothing, no parts, no engineering that doesn't look pure GE. I do know that GE used Hotpoint to test new innovations on all types of appliances, some of which they adapted, some ditched. Hotpoint "Air Flow" dryers were, I believe 28 inches wide, like HOH's. I think they began as condenser dryers and the company just stuck with that fabrication until GE killed them off. The avocado dryer that was mentioned on Craigslist is a real Hotpoint unit, not a GE changeling.

Also, the controls on the Duo-Load look remarkably similar to the ones we've seen on the "Lady Executive". I once had a catalogue of Hotpoints from the late sixties/early seventies and it's killing me to think that I might have thrown it away during that era I was more interested in pot than in appliances.

 

[alr2903]

Bajaspuma, i always enjoyed that Hotpoint ad when it revolved on POD. The forum once got in a uproar that the design on the purple cabinet had 4 swastika's, hidden in it's design. The duoload ad mentions it has an automatic bleach dispenser. I can see how this set up would work, at best, and cause alot of confusion for someone replacing a much earlier machine. alr2903

 

[launderess]

Two Washes and Two Rinses

Or a soak,then a wash and two rinses.

Tree-Huggers today would howl in protest if a top loader even tried that today!

 

[sambootoo]

That is my dream washer, too. My sister had a middle of the line Hotpoint in the late 60's. She used it until about '76 or '77. I'm not sure what went wrong with it.

 

[DADoES]

Two Washes and Two Rinses

 
F&P's Intuitive Eco toploader can do a prewash, drain, wash, drain, agitated rinse, drain/spin, 2nd agitated rinse, final spin. And throw in some spin-sprays as well. A 2-hr soak can be included as part of the main wash.

 

[appliguy]

Ingliscanada...........

Hotpoint has been part of GE since 1922..... I would sure love to know what one of these Hotpoint washers sound like ....do they sound very different form a GE of the same era? PAT COFFEY

 

[gyrafoam]

They are very quiet during agitation. During the "throw-out" the water hitting the side-walls of the cabinet makes a chug-achugga- sound.

 

[bajaespuma]

I remember Aunt Sona's machine as being very quiet during agitaion as well. And by the way, rollover on her machine was just fine. I assume that she wasn't overloading it. I don't remember noticing noise during the spin, but were Hotpoints of this generation also throwing the water out into the cabinet? Sort of look that way in this cut-sheet:

 

[ingliscanada]

YouTube Vids

I saw the old Hotpoint solid tub washer on YouTube, and there's even one on the "See It Wash" on this site. The agitation is quiet, aside from the pump constantly cycling.

 

[gyrafoam]

Yes, the cabinet was used as the outer water container.

Perhaps one day we can persuade Todd into making a movie for us so that everyone can see one of these rare machines in action!

 

[ingliscanada]

Check "See It Wash"

There's a Hotpoint right there!

 

[Unimatic1140]

The Hotpoint evolved like this:

1949-1955 - Beam Designed: with a beam transmission for agitation and fluid drive spin clutch.

1956-1957 - Beam / Hotpoint hi-bred, beam transmission for agitation and new Hotpoint Spider clutch for spin.

1958-1974 - Hotpoint designed: Co-axial transmission for agitation and spin, new clutch shoe design to transfer power.

1974-1995 - 100% GE designed and made Filter-flo system.

 

[appnut]

touch Command Washer & Dryer

Robert, I"d love it if you have a brochure with a lot more detail on both the washer and the dryer--or a part of this brochure. That dryer our neighbor (the one who had the frog-eyed Kenmore dryer that this one replaced that is like Jetcones Frogeyed washer) (and had the two monkey wards washer and the TOL Laundromat with all the colored buttons from 1958) inherited from her sister in the early to mid-1970s when the matching washer died. The pair was even the color pictured above. Loved it when I got to turn on the dryer because it was a rapid advance timer that sometimes seemed to take forever to set itself. But was always fascinated by the dryer. It had a GE shaped door opening and lint filter system and sounded a lot like a GE dryer.

 

[70series]

Thanks Robert for the chronological rundown of Hotpoint's changes and evolution through the years, and also to everyone who posted those ad photos. I agree with bajaespuma. There are way too few of these floating around, and I wish there were more. I would really love to see what the 1964 models looked like, and the features they had. We had that as our first washer, and I have no clue as to what it was like. The only thing I knew was that it was a Silhouette model thanks to an old film slide taken back before I was born. I was only 2 when the washer died, so a memory does not exist. Are any of the ones pictured above 1964 models? I'll have to check the postings again. Thanks.

Have a good one,
James

 

[70series]

Just took a quick look at the pictures:

Actually the thank you goes to you bajaespuma for all of those other photo posts.

Have a good one,
James

 

[lebron]

omg

Those black Hotpoints are to die for! What year on those?

 

[jetcone]

wayyyy cool machines here

i'm getting a hotpoint jag on!

what did the "free span" design actually do for the homemaker??

 

[Unimatic1140]

1961 for that brochure, maybe it will "come up" as the POD sometime

 

[bajaespuma]

Here you go:

page 1

 

[bajaespuma]

Too bad Sal got fired...

...he did such nice work

 

[bajaespuma]

I'd kill for a pair of these myself:

 

[bajaespuma]

y'all know I'm a slut when it comes to turquoise blue agitators and accessories.

 

[bajaespuma]

There must have been big signs on the backs of these machines that read something like, "Do not move unit by backsplashers".

 

[bajaespuma]

I was wrong; true Hotpoint dryers were 31" wide, not 28" like the Maytags.

 

[bajaespuma]

and,

 

[bajaespuma]

...and just to get the whole hidden swastika controversy fired up again:

 

[circlew]

Very attractive

Those units look great with the "free-span design" and Windsor Gray color. Find it odd though that it was the only color they came in. Wonder if the gray was offered in kitchen appliances too at that time?