North of the Border

[Unimatic1140]

Today's Ephemera is all from my childhood collection (with the exception of the Leonard brochure). I would pull the addresses of the manufacturers out of Consumer Reports and write away for literature. For today's addition to the library I've produced a collection of American made products sold in Canada under different names. You can download the brochures here.

#1 is Inglis made by Whirlpool, these machines are belt-drive Whirlpool through and through...

#2 is Leonard made by Kelvinator with the washers that have the splashy "Centic Action".

#3 is Viking made by General Electric. It is so fun seeing GE Filter-Flo washers, with a completely different control panel design and a side-opening Hotpoint style lid!

#4 is GSW-McClary which I believe the washers were made by Franklin, but those who download the brochure let us know what you think about who made them. The agitators are clearly of the Easy Spiralator design, but by this time Easy was out of business!

 

[turquoisedude]

Oh, très cool,eh! Merci Robert!!!

 

[vacbear58]

McClary

That twin tub in the bottom row of Robert's photo thread looks very like a (UK) Hotpoint Supermatic to to me!

Could it be they "borrowed" the design like Speed Queen did with Servis? I wonder if it had the "filter-flo" pan or did it have the brush arrangement that the very similar EE Liberators had?

Al

 

[pierreandreply4]

Thank you for posting these

 

[mechanic2laundr]

In the Soviet Union also made ​​washing machines and even their advertised in magazines)))

 

[mechanic2laundr]

Washing machine "Batumi-59" and the centrifuge "Batumi" made ​​in Georgia (Georgian Soviet Union) in 1959.

 

[philr]

Thanks a lot Robert. I had to read them all before I went to sleep this morning!  My grandfather worked for Northern Electric nost of his life and he had a Leonard refrigerator since the 1940's.  Then, he always bought Kelvinator refrigerators and freezers and the 1940's refrigerator survived both of my grandparents. All his other appliances were Inglis, that includes the dishwasher that he wouldn't let my grandmother load. He said she (or anybody else) didn't load it correctly!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Glad you guys enjoyed those great brochures, I'm so loving have all of this stuff in digital form now.

Welcome Ivan, I think you are the first member we ever have had from Moscow. We really are all over aren't we?

I wonder what kind of agitator that wringer washer on the second Russian ad had? I wonder if it was an impeller on the bottom of the washtub?

 

[philr]

One thing I'm wondering is about my former Inglis dryer that I got from my parents. They bought it in March of 1974 so I assumed it was a 1974 model, but maybe it wasn't...

 

It's an Inglis Supreme and it has a US-style cabinet.

Here's a scan of the original instruction manual. Sorry it's in French... 

 

[philr]

The control panel looks like that. 

 

[philr]

Here's the back cover.

 

Can somebody tell me if it's a 1973 model or?

 

[petek]

Like these. There's a whole convoluted bunch of reasons over the partnerships and mergers that I think was due to the government of the times FIRA (Foreign Investment Review Act)that was designed to prevent mega American industries from decimating the much smaller Canadian manufacturers like Moffat, Inglis and GSW.
Like the Moffat Microwave, that's a Litton.. They were sold as Moffats ,then Litton-Moffats but by the later 70's the Moffat name was dropped altogether. The Easy designed stuff was sold as McLary-Easy for awhile anyways.
Eatons was a store brand though we bought our current GE washer at the Bay and not branded as a Beaumark or Baycrest (their store brands) I can't remember if Eatons was still selling GE made Vikings or not at that time.

Eatons Dept Store owned the "Viking" name in Canada the US based Viking company that makes those high end appliances couldn't use it up here so they were branded "Ultra-Line" . Since Eatons demise Ultra-lines are now Viking, same as in the USA.

Since the Free Trade Agreement most all of the restrictions are gone and there's not much made here anymore like the US. Just means that if you want to buy a major appliance in the US now you're no longer hit with punishing duties which used to make it hardly worth it, now you just pay the sales tax bringing it in. Plus the price differential is fast disappearing from what it used to be.

 

[jetcone]

Welcome Ivan

How neat we've got a member from Russia!!! YAY!  Ivan have you ever seen one of these up close??

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jetcone]

Petek

were the Inglis machines actually built in Canada? 

 

 

 

[vacbear58]

McClary & Russians

Well I could contain my curiousity no longer, the McClary twinnie is certainly based on the UK Hotpoint Twin Tub, if not actually built by them.

I understand Ivan to be the owner and restorer of the Russina machines we had a thread on a while back.

Ivan, it would probably be better to create a new thread to discuss your machines, I am sure you will get many questions. Oh, and welcome to AutomaticWasher too

Al

1966 Russian Hoovermatic

Looks an interesting machine, I like the spin deck, the moulded steel and the lid is a very different arrangement to ones we are used to seeing. Apparently it only uses one motor for all functions, I did wonder as the angle of the empty hose had it been on one of the standard models it would...

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[jetcone]

Ivan

those machines are soo cool! Tell us more about your collection!!!

 

jon

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Welcome Ivan!

Glad you found us. Did you, like the rest of us, grow up interested in washing machines? I hope you will enjoy all of the features of this site.

Are automatic washers widely used in Moscow now?

 

[tomturbomatic]

Robert, when I was 12 or 13, my best friend and I wrote to GE for literature on ranges, because I was lobbying hard for an electric range. We had it mailed to his house so I would not get in trouble with my parents. I received some beautiful spec sheets. I have them for 1963 and 1964; not the complete line, but some models. If you would like to scan them, I will send them to you.

 

[mechanic2laundr]

Unfortunately I can not open a new topic, it fails. I was glad to talk about the Soviet washing machines.