My Godfather and his wife bought a house in 1962 or 1963 that had the builder's model. In fact, our 1961 house had the O'Keefe & Merrit brand of the same machine. It got swapped out with the Waste King. I was only about 9 or so last time I saw this (I was alwaqys more enthralled with the WO65 or the WCI65. Anyway, this machine when it was running, think of what your tires and the water sounds like as your driving down the expresswqay while it's raining or very wet pavement. Actually, if you notice tires being drenched with water on the car in the lane next to yours is kind of like what this was similar to. The reason why the bopttom rack is shaped like it is because there was a long cylindrical tube that ran the length of the machine front to back on the bottom. At the back of this tube were baffles which caused the water (think almost like an impeller on its side) to be shot up and over the load of dishes. The tube spun ijn one directyion for a couple of minutes. Paused for a timer increment. And then ran the opposite directoin ) clockwise and counterclockwise. This was probably the most pathetic dishwasher I've ever come across as far as cleaning. it didn't do anything. But I can still hear the machine as the motor wound up to start drenching. then it would pause and drench the opposite direction. The "tube" also ran while drying, "forced air drying" lol. The BOL timer dial had normal, short, rinse & hold, rinse & dry, and plate warmer marking on the dial. Smoeone here sent me a copy of a brochure or something that had to do with the TOL model in today's POD, but I cannot find it around here. I know I haven't thrown it out. Glad we swapped out the O&M for the Waste King before we moved into the new house. BTW, this Tappan was replaced by the built-in version of that cdoppertone Hotpoint portable in like 1973 or 1974. It served a family of 4 for 8 or 9 years. I believe combo52 has one of these in his museum collection. And it really was quiet for a dishwasher in its day.
