Kenmore Washer

[countryford]

I was checking the local auctions/estate sales and found this Kenmore washing machine. What year? Early 50's? It is at an Auction for the 15th and 16th of this month, so I have a bit before then. I'll go and check it out when the time comes. Not sure if I'm going to get this or not. I will try if someone here wants it. Just let me know.

 

[turquoisedude]

Definitely early 50s, Justin - probably one of the first non-bolt down automatics that Whirlpool and Kenmore made. I have a 51 that looks very similar to this one; I'd be willing to bet this has a suds-saver!

It looks like this poor thing has been stored outside, alas... Still, there are still parts kicking around for a restoration!

 

[combo52]

1949-52 KM Washer

Other than the orignal bolt-down KM Automatic Washers these were very popular machines in this time period and in fact this was far and away the most popular AW of this time period.

These were really good performing washers and they can be restored, if fact by gutting parts from an early 1980s WP-KM BD washer, motor,transmission, water pump, inlet valve, the job can be made a little easier, but it is still a big job.

John L.

 

[e2l-arry]

1952

My mom's had this same machine and matching dryer. She said they bought it when my sister was born and 3 kids under 5 made too much laundry for the Speed Queen wringer. That sister was born in 1952.

 

[washdaddy]

I almost feel like this a revised version of the SIx Million Dollar Man.------

WE HAVE THE TECHNOOGY-

WE CAN REBUILD HER. STRONGER.... BETTER THAN BEFORE.

 

[washdaddy]

CRAP MISSED A "L"....but you get where I am coming from

 

[danemodsandy]

We Had One....

....And the matching dryer, in the late '50s and early '60s. We were in our first house, with all the budget constraints a new mortgage brings, so Dad scrounged them up somewhere. Mom hated them, not for any real reason (as little as she cared for doing laundry, you'd think she'd be okay with anything that did it for her), but because they weren't as new and glamorous as those of other women she knew.

I'd love to have that set back. Or one like it.

 

[rberryiii3]

1951

I thought this was a 1951? Have the same machine just need a pump.