Those old Norges were really popular back in the 50's. In part I think because Consumer Reports rated them so highly. They washed very well in comparison with most other machines back then. It's a shame they didn't have a better pump on them. That seems to have been a real weak point with those machines. If they had a better pump they would have lasted much longer than most of them did, since the rest of the machine seems to have been pretty well built.