OK, the agitator looks like it came from an Easy, but the timer dial looks decidedly G.E. to me. The lid reminds me of a Westinghouse. What is the origin of this machine? Is it the Labradoodle of laundry appliances, LOL?
POD 11/29: McClary Washer
- Thread starter frigilux
- Start date
Help Support :
Once upon a time, a Canadian company called GSW (General Steel Wares) had a line of appliances that grew to include McClary, Beatty, and Easy (Canadian production); that seemed to last until the late 1970s. Sometime in 1978 or 1979, a company called CAMCO (they built GE and Hotpoint appliances in Canada) gobbled up GSW's appliance operations and dropped the GSW and Easy appliance lines. From then on in, McClary appliances were pretty much Hotpoint clones and were considered as 'low-end' or 'budget' appliances. They weren't big on features, but they were decent and affordable!
The POD looks like it would be from the mid-70s when the Easy washers were like those made in the US.
The POD looks like it would be from the mid-70s when the Easy washers were like those made in the US.
MaytagA710
Well-known member
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2011
- Messages
- 422
Oh Paul you beat me to it! LOL Yeah this machine is certainly a brain teaser. Even the tub makes you question its true maker.
McClary-Easy was responsible for a number of wringer machines up here in Canada too.
But Paul is correct in all shapes and forms. McClary no longer exists in Canada. Moffat was another BOL to MOL brand made by Camco, and I ever really understood why McClary and Moffat machines were produced at the same time as both brands were BOL to MOL machines, and offering the same product. McClary stopped selling their products around the late 90s I believe. You can find GEs plastic tub washers with the McClary name on them on Kijiji up here.
McClary-Easy was responsible for a number of wringer machines up here in Canada too.
But Paul is correct in all shapes and forms. McClary no longer exists in Canada. Moffat was another BOL to MOL brand made by Camco, and I ever really understood why McClary and Moffat machines were produced at the same time as both brands were BOL to MOL machines, and offering the same product. McClary stopped selling their products around the late 90s I believe. You can find GEs plastic tub washers with the McClary name on them on Kijiji up here.
The Easy brand was owned by WCI here in the states by the early-mid seventies. This is Eddy's version of a nearly identical washer - different agitator - I had branded Kelvinator a few years back. The serial tag said it was made by GSW Inc. located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Apparently when I researched this a while back, that factory was owned by WCI, building a Franklin design machine (before WCI merged the Franklin and Westinhouse washer designs into one later in the early-mid 80's) and the factory is still there, or was, building refrigerators.
Thanks for the info, guys! The machine does have a rather complex parentage.
Similar threads
