Laundry Landscape-1939

[partscounterman]

The 1939 October and November issues of The American Home" have an article about"Waging War on Washday". Here are some machines featured in the November issue.
1) Easy Ironer
2)Crosley Washer
3)Norge Washer
4)Lander, Frary and Clark Ironer
5)There's always something new-this time an electric clothes dryer. Put the clothes inside and let them tumble slowly through clean warm air by the action of a revolving cylinder. General Electic Co.
6) Clay Equipment Corp.
7)Bendix
8) Kelvinator
9)Hotpoint Ironer
10)Westinghouse
11)Maytag

 

[partscounterman]

a couple more...

12) Snow White Dryer
13) General Electric Washer

 

[partscounterman]

14) Thor "Stow-A-Way Kitchen Laundry
15)Armstrong Ironer
16) Three prong clothespins from Modern Products
17) The Steem Electric Iron
18) Proctor Never-Lift Iron
19) Wstinghouse Iron
20) Laundrymaster Clothes Basket

 

[mickeyd]

Fabulous, David! Who woulda thunk?

A Kelvinator Wringer--twin (or double) tub, no less. Never once heard of a Kelvi Wringer. Geoff-have you ? And look at the skirt on that Westy! And the fold-away Thor is so retro British. And check out that cute Sunday Church hat and those nice legs on the GE #13. And how I'd love to have that proper wringer-height wicker wheel-about to catch my wringing--Jeezz! Shocked at how uncomely the Maytag still was in 1939 when it's neighbors were already spiffing up. Strange till one considers how slow Maytag was to change--anything!

Did you know they were still making Crosley Wringers a few years ago? Don't know about now.

What a beautiful late breakfast I'm having wit your lovely extravagant scannings.

Thank You..........A week and a day and you're home. You must me getting excited.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Almost all makers of automatic washers, except Frigidaire, made wringer or spinner washers or both before automatics. A substitute teacher told us of the time her daughter brought some laundry over to her house and had put the Tide inside the bundle of clothes. Her mom did not realize that and added detergent. When she returned to the basement her Kelvinator wringer was a suds volcano.

1939 was the year that the Gray Ghost was restyled into the modern looking designs for the two white square tubs and the white round tub.

That so-called 1939 GE dryer looks far more like an early design for the Hamilton. GE's first dryer is the one pictured in the ads for the modern laundry room during the war and right after. It had the square window in the square door. The pre-war Hotpoint was similar with a smaller round window in the door.

 

[retro-man]

snow white dryer? Never heard of this before. It looks like the newer maytag dryer closet. I wonder if this functioned the same way? Hang the clothes on hangers or on strung lines and on a shelf? Interesting that the exhaust is on the top with dual opening doors. Would love to see the inside. How does this work? Anyone here know?
Jon