The most stylish "Cadillac of washers"?

[peteski50]

Those Hotpoint's are beautiful. We had Hotpoint but it was the BOL model. They washed very well, but weren't the most reliable machines.

 

[Unimatic1140]

The 1958 Frigidaire Unimatic & Filtrator set is also a contender as some have mentioned, I had these in my kitchen for several years until the '57 Control Tower set showed up one day...

 

[pierreandreply4]

i so miss the days when washers where simple and i also miss this set dating back from my youth 1972 inglis superb with brush lint filter dispenser and mountable liquid fabric softner dispenser

 

[Chetlaham]

Do you have an up close of the washer's control panel? I'd love all those buttons scooted to the left with with a stylish timer on the right. User control + lots of options- my favorite!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Do you have an up close of the washer's control panel? I'd love all those buttons scooted to the left with with a stylish timer on the right. User control + lots of options- my favorite!

Sure Chet, not exactly sure if you're talking about the '58 but here it is...

 

[Unimatic1140]

and if you're referring to the '61 Hotpoint here it is...

 

[petermaz]

If you don’t mind me saying, the first two posters didn’t even bother to provide pics, so those suggestions are nix’d out of hand. Unimatic1140’s pair are certainly sleek for the 1950s. Very pretty. But I don’t see them as 1950s Caddy extravagant styling, despite their sleek appearance.. The Westinghouse Slant Fronts had that in spades. But how about bumping even that up a couple notches? My proposed entry is the uber rare Commercial version of the Slant Front washer: The Westinghouse “Streamliner” Laundromat Slant Front model RL-1, (~late 40’s, early ‘50s). And Coin-op to boot. And yes, two of them (I was ‘forced’ to, it was a package deal). I also have the Westy dryer (thanks Tyler!)
Curves, sweeping lines, round glass port- what more could you want?
Whatcha think?

I washed my father's construction clothes in these machines and got my arm caught in them once I had to pull the plug because there were no safety door locks then.

 

[Chetlaham]

The Hotpoint, and yes, it is beautiful! I love push button washers. I just wish it would offer more warm rinses. I like the fact the 58 offers a cool rinse option. I'd use that often in the winter.

 

[gregingotham]

I think you have to agree the 57 control towers fall into the school of design that "less is more"

 

[gregingotham]

I also have to say these 65 or 66 frigidaires aren't anything to sneeze at.

 

[circlew]

I've always liked Frigidaire's Honey Beige color. Those machines look good in it.

 

[thatwasherguy]

Here’s the pictures. These are of my 1978 set. I posted my first reply right before I went to bed, so I didn’t even think to post pictures.
Thatwasherguy.

 

[appnut]

Robert, I've probably mentioned this before, but my neighbor across the street (that was also behind us in our 1948 house) got that Hotpoint Touch Command dryer (in the black) from her sister when the washer bit the dust. The dryer replaced her 1957/1958 Frog Eye kenmore with the sunburst timer dial. The control panel was hard for me to see in her laundry room so I never got to really understand it. She had the cycle button she always used pushed and I just pushed the start button.

And Chet, that Hotpoint washer did have the warm rinse option button you could select for any cycle. It was part of the slelect segment of the control panel right next to the Master On Off power buttons at the far right end.