Spotted during a service call...

[redcarpetdrew]

I was up in Virginia City on a call Yesterday. Really old houses there. Saw two things in this kitchen that were interesting. First up, a Westinghouse... timing center? This looks like it controls small cooking appliances. I didn't see a model number so I couldn't tell how old. Any ideas?

 

[redcarpetdrew]

The underside...

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Right across the counter was this neat looking mixer. It's a Montgomery Wards. Who made this and any ideas on age?

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Side shot...

 

[redcarpetdrew]

The settings...

 

[redcarpetdrew]

The model info... The customer still uses it and says he prefers it to the newer Kitchenaid mixer he also has.

RCD

 

[rp2813]

I'm going to take a guess and say Dormeyer on the mixer, but I'm only going from memory of things I've seen in thrift stores.

That Westy item looks like something our fellow AW buddy Dan Langdon would have in his collection, waiting for deployment in his 50's kitchen.

Ralph

 

[sudsman]

Pretty sure you are right

Grandma had one almost the same branded Dormeyer think a aunt has it now.

 

[danemodsandy]

Yep!

Definitely Dormeyer, but oddly, Monkey Wards decided to spring for a whole new base instead of the Dormeyer one. This one still works the same way, though - the mixer head tilts to one side instead of back, the way most stand mixers' heads do. That dates this to the late '40s / early '50s, unless Dormeyer used the feature on private-label merchandise after changing their own mixers so that the head tilted straight back. Hard to say - Dormeyer did lots of things that make absolutely no sense today, and the company's records are gone or inaccessible.

It's a very good mixer, that much is certain. Dormeyers were very close to being equal to the Sunbeam Mixmaster.

 

[jeffg]

Very nice mixer! Is the glass bowl original? It looks pretty small for the unit.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The Westinghouse appliance center was an inexpensive way of giving a kitchen several circuits for countertop appliances. Only one 230 line to run to the center and each 120 volt circuit is safely protected by a circuit breaker. Greg has the Sunbeam version, I think.

 

[rp2813]

I noticed the MW model number is 2009, and the mixer certainly would fit right in with a 2009 kitchen.

That is such a nice design, it's hard to imagine Monkey Wards selling something so not clunky-looking.

 

[danemodsandy]

Bowl:

I don't think that's an original bowl; Dormeyer's bowls were more straight-sided. The overall size is okay; two bowls were included with Dormeyers and Sunbeams - a small and a large.

Stainless Dormeyer bowls were available (and included on TOL Silver Chefs and Princesses); this machine would look wonderful with a set of them.

 

[rp2813]

I think there have been more straight-sided (or nearly so) bowls used with mixers over the years than not. I agree that the bowl in the picture is not likely the original. It seems to have way too much of a taper to its sides.

 

[yogitunes]

Thats a PYREX bowl....I have a set of 6 that nestle together inside each other, just regular ordinary everyday bowls.....