The blurb for the machine mentioned Caloric's Famous Long Stroke Washing Action. Doesn't something have to have a bit of history to become famous? Caloric automatic washers barely had a moment's presence. I doubt that most people knew that they existed, so how could Caloric's washing action become famous? Like someone said, "She can't be a has-been because she never was."
POD TIDE ad with Caloric Washer
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Looks like another Beam built washer.
Those folks at Beam sure were busy around this time, building washers for so many. I wonder if the other makers like stodgy Maytag looked down on Beam's "loose ways"?
Those folks at Beam sure were busy around this time, building washers for so many. I wonder if the other makers like stodgy Maytag looked down on Beam's "loose ways"?
Probably not as much as D&M was looked down upon as the Great Whore of Babylon in the dishwasher world. "Loose" did not apply only to construction standards.
Outside of Beam, there were not other companies who did this (with the exception of WP-KM) until the buyouts started happening near the end of the last century.
Outside of Beam, there were not other companies who did this (with the exception of WP-KM) until the buyouts started happening near the end of the last century.
Penncrest Hotpoints/ GEs. Wards Signature brand was both Norge and Westinghouse and iirc the portables were sourced from Japan, Norge wringer machines. There was also that strange pairing of GE sold with the RCA name. IIRC, Wards Signature dishwashers were mfr. by Frigidaire. The Crosley name has been on Bendix, Norge/Tag, WP. Montgomery Ward's sold wringer machines with the " Famous Borg-Warner transmission".
Thank you, but the Crosley name and the GE/RCA were what I meant by the buyouts in last part of the 20th century, but I did forget the others. I guess that last interruption in arterial flow took out more than the words to the brucha I was reciting. Thanks for helping me remember. I do still remember the strange, flat front, front loading washers and dryers I tried my best to see that summer in 1960 in Florida when we went into the store to buy a rod and reel for me to use for surfcasting. I had never been in a Wards before and that appliance department was totally foreign territory begging to be explored, but the parents were calling.
But, you know, no manufacturer of washing machines did, as far as I know, what D&M did with dishwashers; just make them for any brand and not really market a brand of their own. The examples you cited were pairings of makers and brands, some partnerships that endured and some that did not, but D&M was turning out dishwashers for many brands. The makers of other appliances, like Globe with Maytag gas ranges and Amana with Maytag Freezers kept producing their own lines of stoves and freezers. Frigidaire, while making Wards' dishwashers kept marketing their own. Both Norge and Westinghouse, while making laundry appliances for Wards kept marketing their own machines, like Tappan and Westinghouse did while making electric ranges for Wards. Roper, while making ranges for Sears continued to offer ranges under their own name. I think D&M was a unique manufacturer for hire in the appliance world.
