Story behind These Cool Machines
First of all a big THANK YOU to Brain [ Northwesty ] for spotting these on Craigslist and posting them on AW,org and a big THANK YOU to Tom [ Turbomatic ] for paying the shipping cost for getting them to our Museum Project, the shipping cost as much as the machines.
And a Big Thank You to Heidi , the nice lady who posted these on Craigslist and whose three teenaged sons helped load them on the moving van for shipment. I also not only want to thank but wholeheartedly want to recommend Jackie who has now carefully moved four appliances for Tom and I from the far corners of the United States, if anyone wants something moved you can contact her at her Email address [ [email protected] ] or call her @ 206-433-8539, she is terrific.
I really don't know much of the history of these particular machines, I know they were installed in a custom built home in 1959a nd remained there till the owner died. I do find it had to believe that someone could actually use a washer and dryer for over 50 years and keep them in such good shape, the machine tops and dryer drum [ all just painted surfaces ] show absolutely no sign that anything ever touched them.
This washer & dryer have long been a dream of my brother Jeff and I, and as Tom mentioned we even selected a picture of these machines to feature on a custom decorated cake that we served at the 2002 Wash-in. The 1959 Westinghouse washers were completely redesigned to have a non-slanted wash tub and these were the first use of the potato pulley that caused the speed of each rotation to vary, this coupled with two baffles in the tub not evenly spaced gave a very good washing action that eliminated the tangling problem of their earlier machines.
First of all a big THANK YOU to Brain [ Northwesty ] for spotting these on Craigslist and posting them on AW,org and a big THANK YOU to Tom [ Turbomatic ] for paying the shipping cost for getting them to our Museum Project, the shipping cost as much as the machines.
And a Big Thank You to Heidi , the nice lady who posted these on Craigslist and whose three teenaged sons helped load them on the moving van for shipment. I also not only want to thank but wholeheartedly want to recommend Jackie who has now carefully moved four appliances for Tom and I from the far corners of the United States, if anyone wants something moved you can contact her at her Email address [ [email protected] ] or call her @ 206-433-8539, she is terrific.
I really don't know much of the history of these particular machines, I know they were installed in a custom built home in 1959a nd remained there till the owner died. I do find it had to believe that someone could actually use a washer and dryer for over 50 years and keep them in such good shape, the machine tops and dryer drum [ all just painted surfaces ] show absolutely no sign that anything ever touched them.
This washer & dryer have long been a dream of my brother Jeff and I, and as Tom mentioned we even selected a picture of these machines to feature on a custom decorated cake that we served at the 2002 Wash-in. The 1959 Westinghouse washers were completely redesigned to have a non-slanted wash tub and these were the first use of the potato pulley that caused the speed of each rotation to vary, this coupled with two baffles in the tub not evenly spaced gave a very good washing action that eliminated the tangling problem of their earlier machines.
