P.O.D. 1/13/2019: Hamilton, what ever became of?

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, that Hamilton washer 'n dryer set, along with Franklin, Blackstone and the other oddball brands?

Did they morph into whatever was a good WCI sphere, or simply die out before such a hideous corporate conglomeration had been founded, which unfortunately the Big-4 of Gibson, Kelvinator, Frigidaire and (White) Westinghouse couldn't escape?

(Anymore to explain?)

-- Dave

 

[norgeway]

The washer

Was just a re badged Norge, the dryer I think they made, but I don't know what happened to the company.

 

[DADoES]

 
Hamilton Company History

Norge was a division of BorgWarner.

Hamilton marketed the first automatic dryer, which others rebadged (such as Frigidaire and Bendix IIRC?).

Maybe the Hamilton washer was first and Norge rebadged it?

 

[jamiel]

believe the sequence of events was that Hamilton had a pretty well developed dryer that they would OEM to anyone, but they didn't have much experience (from the readings) with hydraulics/water/so forth; so they got the washing machine from Norge to fill their line; from the above timeline in about 1968 they sold their laundry business off to White Consolidated, which continued to produce until the early 70s.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ross Moore, who invented the automatic domestic clothes dryer went to a sheet metal fabricating company in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Bendix dryers were not related to Hamilton dryers.