Hey Steve, are you going to pick this one up?? Looks like a little less "deluxe" version of the one our Webmaster Robert has in his basement. Roberts is a '56 I believe and has a red agitator.
Here's a pic of Robert starting the first load in the Hotpoint at the May 2010 Wash-In.
I think its a 54 or 55, The super deluxe models had two cycles and lighted pushbuttons, I believe this is a Beam ??? design, fluid drive spin, I knew a man in my hometown that used a 54 for over 30 years!!
And finally Harriet with the TOL
This is different in the above photo with Robert - that is a 1956.
If anyone has more from this era - please share!
Thanks
Peter