P.O.D. 07.04.2024

[pulltostart]

Two questions about the POD - 

 

First, what became of Easy?

 

Second, just reading the features of the advertisement for a 14-lb capacity washer, it would appear to be a quality product.  Was it?  Do any exist in anyone's collection?

 

lawrence

 

[launderess]

"The company was acquired by the Union Chemical & Material Company in 1955 and the "Easy" trademark and washing machine assets were acquired by the Murray Corporation of America (acquired Union's share in 1957) The Easy Appliance Division was sold to the Hupp Corporation in 1963."

https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Easy_Washing_Machine_Company

" Hupp was acquired by White Consolidated Industries in 1967, and later sold to the Blaw-Knox Corporation in 1986. In 1990, the company was sold to the Sunderland Industrial Holdings Corporation, but it filed for bankruptcy a year later in 1991. It was acquired by CPT Holdings, Inc. in 1992."

https://mycompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Hupp_Motor_Car_Company

https://case.edu/ech/articles/h/hupp-corp

Columbia Pictures Television (CPT Holdings) once owed Screen Gems and other entertainment that gave us shows such as "Bewitched" and "I Dream Of Jeannie"

Again, it always pays to wander about the archives.

EASY WASHING MACHINES

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "EASY" WASHING MACHINE MADE IN SYRACUSE, NY? WHAT YEAR DID THEY STOP PRODUCTION? I GREW UP IN SYRACUSE AND ALWAYS WONDERED. MY FIRST WASHER WAS AN "EASY" WRINGER BACK IN 1986 (IT WAS 50 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME!) AND WORKED LIKE A CHAMP, EXCEPT IT LEAKED OIL. I...

www.automaticwasher.org

Google Search

 

[tomturbomatic]

Murray made bicycles, too.

Is this the thing with the long, slow 2 minute spin drain out of the 4 minute final spin that left laundry poorly extracted like Robert described? Maybe it was a plot to make the water extraction of the Combomatic seem less pathetic.

 

[hobbyapocalypse]

kitchen cabinets too

My kitchen cabinet sink was made by Murray. They had a plant in Scranton, not far from my house. The sink is a single basin but has 2 huge drainboards which I really like.

 

[thatwasherguy]

Murray...

Is that the same Murray that made lawnmowers back in the day? I’ve got one with a Tecumseh engine from ‘89, and it’s an absolute tank.
Thatwasherguy.