Swedish-built Frigidaire refrigerator / freezer units

[funktionalart]

Anyone in the U.S. familiar with these? I've never seen them here before (they look like they might be 15-20 years old). Outwardly they look quite like things we had in Ireland in the 90s. These are for sale pretty cheap, though freezer looks pretty iced up. Personally, I tend to avoid newer Frigidaire stuff…but these appeal to me stylistically and for compactness. Doubt they would be worth messing with, but I posted the CL listing over in shoppers square if anyone's interested...

 

[davey7]

I'm surprised to see those here - they are what just about every Swedish house has (equal size fridge and freezer)or aspires to. When I was there everything was white but stainless has come in lately.

 

[vacbear58]

Electrolux

These are almost certainly manufactured by Electrolux - the handles certainly looks similar to the style used by them in the late 1980s and 1990s although the stainless finish seems more like the 2000s to me. The "fingers" in the bottle racks are also a dead give away as I never saw anyone but Electrolux use them and actually they work quite well (I had an Electrolux fridge from the mid 1980s, thru the 1990s).

It is very unusual to see a large fridge and freezer with two doors - I recall seeing this only once here before and that was back in the mid/late 1980s and that was a store exclusive - John Lewis (or Jonelle which was the brand name they used then). However they each look like one large unit with two doors rather than two independent compartments - if you look at the fridge you can see what looks like a removable tray just at the bottom of the top door - this is usually provided to allow more storage for tall bottles.

Electrolux has long sold large matching fridges and freezers (I can remember them back in the mid 1970s) to go side by side, although of course other manufacturers do now too, the ones shown below are AEG and are probably the best modern equivalent (AEG is owned by Electrolux)

 

[vacerator]

Of course

they are Electrolux. They own Frigidaire, and do not license the name out.

 

[vacbear58]

@ Vacerator

These units are branded WCI

 

[foraloysius]

Typical Swedish indeed. I've played with the idea to have two bottom mount fridges side by side, which would look the same from the outside and would have the advantage of having the fridge compartments at eye level.

 

[magic_clean]

Could

be from the "Euro-Flair" offerings from the late 1980's.

 

[goatfarmer]

I remember those. Never saw the side by side, but we had several top mounts come through the shop over the years. Yes, these was from the WCI days.

 

[vacerator]

Ah, yes vacbear

When did Electrolux buy WCI?

 

[launderess]

Electrolux got their mitts on WCI decades ago now, late 1980's IIRC.

Electrolux - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[funktionalart]

Euro Flair--

Is what they are, supposedly…referenced by magic_clean comment above. The ad for the sale also referenced that line.

 

[vacerator]

The above photo

is branded AEG, also an E-Lux brand.

 

[vacerator]

E-Lux

acquired WCI in 1986 exactly.

 

[vacerator]

They tried to get

GE too. Haier got it instead. Maybe the Chinese will allow GE to remain GE, like they are Volvo.
AB Electrolux would have been a monopoly with GE.