pierreandreply4
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@Chetlaham how would you see modern version of these dishwashers in 2025?
1 model is the white push start button the other electromechanical time


Chet, at the time Sears started selling dishwashers, Whirlpool didn't have a factory making them. Until 1955, Whirlpool only made laundry equipment. That year they acquired both refrigerator (Seeger) and range (RCA Estate) manufacturing facilities. If I remember correctly, Whirlpool sourced their dishwashers from D&M for the first few years.Right, however these machine had the benefits of simplicity and fast cycle times not seen in machines today. Such control systems implemented on a Power Clean or Jet-Clean these would make for leading dishwashers.
Personally Kenmore should have just sourced everything from Whirlpool. Have the BOL all the way up to the TOL lineup be power clean adding features and cycles accordingly.
Chet, what if this happened: Hobart, the original builder of KA, decides to reenter the consumer market with a dishwasher like their undercounter commercial models but with residential programming and racks and features. They sometimes run an ad on Facebook that shows such a machine in a nursing home like setting so could they be "feeling out" the market? I doubt if this would happen because Miele has a commercial model and there is a lot of competition but would this concept be something you approve of? Oh, by the way, D&M machines often broke down a lot and Sears sold a lot of maintenance agreements with them, the only reason Sears customers put up with them.