Montgomery Ward "Her Majesty" dryer in Tucson

[roto204]

http://tucson.craigslist.org/app/3713725426.html

Too bad the washer's not there, but if my experience with the A806 is any indication, you never know!

My opportunity to torment Ralph with another MW item is superseded by the 'Tags, but someone should get this lovely--there are not a ton of Montgomery Ward's TOL models out there.

http://tucson.craigslist.org/app/3713725426.html

 

[roto204]

For the archives

Timer...

 

[roto204]

More for the archives

"Velvet Heat"?

Sounds salacious.

 

[roto204]

And...

The full-on shot. Love the pushbutton!

Hey Todd, wouldn't Northern California be a nice place for this unit to vacation? ;-)

 

[jaxsunst]

Love the old circle Monkey Ward logo. I worked at a Monkey's 5 years, 3 years as Manager of Men's Department.

 

[tomturbomatic]

We have one in the warehouse. It has auto dry that used a two stage burner to give something like Kenmore's Soft Heat. Her Majesty was to ape Lady Kenmore. This one is electric.

 

[revvinkevin]

And in a BEAUTIFUL pale (sunny?) yellow too!!!!!!!!!

 

 

I agree.... someone SHOULD save this!

 

It SURE is a beauty!   LOVE the yellow!

 

Kevin

 

 

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice dryer!

 

I have a MW "Her Majesty" washer console. Doesn't look anything like this dryer. It was the only thing worth saving from a boneyard MW washer.

 

[combo52]

Her Majesty Electric Dryer

This is one of the original style Norge dryers that were built like a tank, these are very efficient good performing dryers [ only real downside is they tend to leak air at every seam and seal ] so be per paired for a little heat, humidity and LINT in your laundry area, LOL. These make a great outdoor dryer for the porch.

 

I wounder if this dryer is really yellow or avocado?

 

[roto204]

WAIT A MINUTE.

Robert, don't you need this?

I seem to recall that you have its close mate, in non-sherbet coloring.

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?31610

 

[rp2813]

Such a close call --

Or was the thread about the Maytag pair just an elaborately staged 4/1 joke?

 

[norgeway]

Just ONE word!

N O R G E !!!!!!!Made by BORG WARNER!

 

[appnut]

That is NOT a 1968 Her Majesty Dryer. More like 1964/1965. Yes, that's Robert's washer. Was also the same washer a neighbor had across the street.

 

[roto204]

April Fool?

"Or was the thread about the Maytag pair just an elaborately staged 4/1 joke?"

Yes, that was it. I actually have a brand new set of LGs out there. ;-)

 

[redcarpetdrew]

New LG's...

Sorry, Nate, but its time to tear up your AW vintage man card...

RCD

 

[alr2903]

Somebody should get it! We have to know more about "Velvet heat"!

 

[rp2813]

Bob's right.  Our dreadful Signature 18 washer that permanently scarred the tile floor was a '67 and it had the super cheap looking slanted console and the white agitator Norge continued to use for what, 25 or 30 more years? 

 

The Norge consoles just before that time were much nicer looking, as demonstrated by Her Majesty above.

 

[combo52]

Her Majesty Electric Dryer

Norges Velvet Heat worked very much like KMS Soft Heat on the electric dryers, it had two heaters and when a good minimum exhaust temperature of around 130F was reached it just used one heater to finish drying the load. The really unique system was on the Gas KMs where the burner used a variable input to precisely match burner flame size to exhaust temperature [ much like gas ovens did before about 1960 ]. On the gas Velvet Heat dryers they just used a two level gas valve, which I am sure still worked very well.

 

Many higher end electric dryers today are using dual heaters that are used in similar ways to reduce power consumption slightly and provide a more gentile heat source.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The two thermostats are located just inside the lint filter duct at the bottom of the dryer. I found that I could speed up the drying by making it run on the higher burner input longer by insulating the thermostat that had to be satisfied to shift the the burner to the lower input. It's funny how Norge changed the burner configuration over the years. First the drilled port cast iron burner which ran almost the whole width of the cabinet had the holes on the top. The gas Her Majesty from about the mid 60s had the burner turned over so that the flames came out the bottom. In the last machines, there was just a big old jet that shot the flame into a combustion chamber. To hell with all of the advertising about the evenness of the heat from the full width burner or heating element. Norge sorta moved to the "just get'er done" motto before Larry the Cable Guy was ever heard of.

 

[cuffs054]

Did the Norges, et al, that came with a recirc lint filter have the same ag as the burp-a-lator?

 

[rp2813]

Corrected per the reply below this one

It was a burpless version of the white polypropylene agitator as I recall.

[this post was last edited: 4/3/2013-14:51]

 

[roto204]

Different ag

See Robert's thread/pic I referenced. It's like a monster version, three-vaned, of the drag-o-matic agitators used in the earlier sixties--thick, thick vanes with reinforcements across the top of each vane. The Darth Vader of agitators. I've also seen MW machines with black Bakelite ones that had sculpted/spiraled vanes. This preceded the familiar four-vaned, broad-based polyproylene ones we know and love as the later burpalator line.

Lint filtering was done via a recirculating flume at the back-middle of the basket at 12 o'clock, with a filter basket that would hang there. No burpalation.

 

[washerlover]

Nate, it would be fun for Her Majesty to vacation in Northern California but alas my husband and I are still living in our summer home and have not yet moved to a "big house" so no room at present for vacationing royalty! But she sure is a beaut!