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[easyspindry]

I had no idea that Norge made a front load machine. Fascinating picture and description. It's action and mechanism is very much like the Bendix -- even down to the float tube to indicate when the tub has enough water. And the same incredibly slow extraction speed.

Wonder if anyone has one of these machines. And I wonder if they were as noisy as the standard top load Norge.

Jerry Gay

 

[alr2903]

See the archived consumer reviews Nov. 1950, "rated"@ 18 lbs of laundry.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Even the transmission, which I have seen in the service manual, screams "Bendix." Some of us think it was a way for Norge to get its name in the automatic washer market before they were ready with a top loader, but we wonder how Bendix was led to come up with that giant machine. Westinghouse, as Jon told us, had to pay AVCO huge bucks to be able to put the flush rinse in their cycle between the wash drain and the first spin and this timer's cycles are exactly the same as Bendix. Bendix is probably the reason that WH did not have a spin between the second and third rinses. Bendix would not let Norge build a machine so similar to their own. There had to be cooperation.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

So what CAN'T this NORGE wash??????

But by it being a "Double Load" washing mach. I am sure under the impression that some home owners (the ones who could afford it!) owned this or at least one that COULD wash just about anything--in fact, NO LIMIT to what it could wash...

And of a Front-Load variety such as this...! (I'm sure installation, though, was about a fraction of the purchase price and you'd better have a basement or room w/ a solid cement--or concrete--slab!)

And hopefully good reliability to boot! (Maybe the means to last to this day!)

-- Dave