is this W&D set really from 1962?

[agitatorboogie]

i don't know if anyone has posted this yet but here it be....and in COPPERTONE!

http://https//indianapolis.craigslist.org/app/5195150975.html

 

[yogitunes]

dead give away......straight four vane activator....that's an 18 pounder, and those didn't show up until around the early 70's if I am correct....

still nice....

 

[goatfarmer]

More like 1972. Nice set!

 

[gansky1]

GE did do a nice coppertone, and these look like they're in good shape.

Ken may have more exact dates on this set, but I believe GE went away from the round timer dial -marking and the wire clothes guard in 1974 so this set would be after.

 

[pulltostart]

Console Graphics

The design of this console debuted in 1973, not certain about the retainer setup change, but I think it happened the same year.

 

lawrence

 

[mom11]

Are they gone??

I tried to find these and it said "page not available." I can't find them.

 

[bajaespuma]

Pictures here aren't close or sharp enough.

I think Lawrence pegged it but the problem is, as he pointed out, the control panel design from 1973-1976 hardly changed at all. The plastic retainer ring did start in 73, earlier for the commercial models. I'd bet it's the model # WWA-8300 from the 1975 line on the page below reposted from Lawrence's collection. That model is a single-speed washer with no mini-basket. The dryer is a fancier model.

 

If they had a shot that showed the bottom of that Activator and we could see 4 straight vanes instead of 8, we could date in more precisely; those showed up in 1976.

 

What confuses me the most is that edged coppertone was supposed to have been discontinued by 1972; hard to argue with a photograph.

 

Whatever, it's a nice basic late Filter-Flo set and I do love edged coppertone.

 

[foraloysius]

Working link:

https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/app/5195150975.html

 

[pulltostart]

Ken

One correction about the color, the shaded colors lasted through the 1976 model year.  When "The New Naturals" were introduced in 1977, all of the colors lacked shading.

 

lawrence

 

[ovrphil]

Photos

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/app/5195150975.html