We didn't actually have a big M/W store here in Tulsa, just the small catalog order stores which had a few appliances on display. In Oklahoma City there was a huge M/W store though. I still saw lots of M/W badged Norge sets here. Norge apparently rebadged their machines for several companies. Another source of rebadged Norge machines was Otasco, which had Tempmaster machines. I think that the dryers were kind of troublesome because the the way they were designed. I think that instead of sucking the air through the machines to accomplish air movement, they blew air through the machine. This seemed to cause quite a bit of lint in the area and if venting was partly blocked, forced the air into the area where the dryer was. The gas dryers were sometimes a source of danger because the excess lint would catch on fire. I know the older dryers that Norge made were real work horses and lasted a long time, but even they had this problem too. The newer super large capacity dryers they made until the 80's were the culprits for more problems of this type. The washers were just plain noisy, but washed and spun really well. I found it amazing that when Norge introduced their first perforated tub model they called it a 13 pound tub, 1 pound larger than the GE V-12. That same tub graduated from there all the way to a 22 pound tub, which is what I had on my Norge made Magic Chef washer and dryer set.
