My new Vornado fan.

[philr]

Today I met Paul who got a small Vornado fan for me last weekend. It was advertised on a local classified website and the seller happened to live very close to Paul so I asked him if he could get it for me. 

 

 

Unlike the US models, it's not made by O.A. Sutton but by The Easy Washing Machine Co. LTD. 

 



 

The speed control is at the back of the motor and it's a rheostat.

 



 

The front shroud is made of plastic.



 

And the plastic grille molded with the shroud. 



 



 

Here's a link to a small video of it:

 

 

[supersuds]

Neato!

Made in Canada by Easy, wow, that's unexpected.

Real nice fan, as well as practical and it looks new!

 

[tolivac]

Thats a nice Vornado fan-or is it axial blower with the rear and front shrouds to direct the airflow and concentrate it.

 

[alr2903]

Congrats.  The Vornado looks brand new.  I bet with the metal deep pitch blades it kicks up a nice breeze.  Phil best of luck with it.  Arthur

 

[whirlcool]

I think that fan is a reproduction of one of the 1950's Vornado fans, which had all metal parts. The original Vornado Company went out of business years and years ago.

Here is a link you might find interesting about your fan.

FAQs - Vornado

www.vornado.com

 

[philr]

From what I read, they were produced in Canada for a few years after O.A. Sutton closed. I guess they were sold in the US too.

 

Here's a discussion about two fans of the same model:

http://www.afcaforum.com/forum5/29012.html

 

[philr]

Here's another link with some information. 

http://www.dtvintagefans.org/vornado/canadian/index.htm

 

[iheartmaytag]

The New Vornado Fans

Are made in Andover, Kansas.

 

[joe_in_philly]

I had no idea that Vornado brand fans were made for so many years. Here is a picture of the little Vornado I have on my desk.

 

[whirlcool]

Vornado Window Fans

Vornado made a window fan similar to your desk fan. On those cool autumn upper midwest evenings in late summer you just turned the fan to exhaust and opened some windows and within 30 minutes or so you would be cool. Th cool breezes blowing in the other windows would cool the house down fast! The fan itself flips/flops over for exhaust or air intake. Here is one just like my parents had. If the switch is on the lower part of the fan, it's a two or three speed model. The slow speed was very quiet. They came in metallic grey and a metallic green.

These fans would really displace the air!

 

[nurdlinger]

the little Vornado

I had one of these a few years back, and I liked it. Unfortunately the cat knocked it onto the floor while it was running. It landed on the blades, could not rotate for a period of some hours while I was at work, and after that would no longer spin.

 

[ptcruiser51]

@ Whirlcool

My aunt and uncle had that exact model in grey. They had it for as long as I can remember, probably from the 1940s. It would pull all the scorching July heat out of a 3rd floor tenement in East Orange, NJ in no time at all.

 

[ovrphil]

Vornado Fans

PhilR -love your fan, even if it does have a plastic shroud; Canadian made makes it rarer(?)

I first learned about Vornado fans from my buddy's dad, who was a mechanical engineer. They had one of the old ones, all metal and when he turned it on, I couldn't believe the volumes of air..nothing like ordinary fans...and I had to get one - eventually, much later in years, I got an all grey, plastic shrouded model that looks like this: (http://www.vornado.com/circulators/Heavy-Duty-293 )...still have it, still works great but that shroud is delicate, broke and required glueing.

Whirlcool - nice fan! I wonder if a double fan model was ever built. TurboProp model, maybe?

 

[gansky1]

That's a beautiful fan, Phil!  I love that grille.

 

I have a 12" Vornado in the garage and a 6" reproduction in my bedroom that we use all the time.  The big one in the garage is rather scary with the open grille, my sister is wary of it, she doesn't want to fall in.

 

My grandparents had a Vornado window fan in their utility room that would pull air from the second story windows.  I spent hours as a kid playing with that fan.  "Stop putting bits of paper in the fan!"

 

[whirlcool]

They must have made a kajillion of those window fans as the are commonly found on Ebay today. They weren't very cheap when they were new, but they last forever. The only maintenance needed is to put a couple of drops of oil in the oiling tube on the fan motor. They were of all metal construction.

If you notice on the tops of the side panels on the fan pictured there were tabs with a hole in them to mount them more or less permanently in the window with screws.
Theses fans were thin enough that when it rained you could still close the window behind them easily in rainy weather.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Great looking fan PhilR! Never seen one like that before. </span>

 

[firedome]

We have the US made mid '50s version...

no plastic, all metal, similar subdued turquoise in color, bought new by my Granny. It moves air most excellently! Nice find Phil!