So was Blackstone ever a real player in the washer/dryer market or were they always on the "fringe?" Until I became a member here I'd never heard of them before. What's their history please! Greg
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Blackstone was based in Jamestown NY. Dates back to the 1800s, shut down in 1977-1980. Their early automatics had a 100% mechanical timer system running on gears and levers off the main drive motor, including operation of the fill valves. The inlet water wouldn't shut off if a power failure occured during fill, resulting in an overflow if the user didn't shut off the supply taps.
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The family business of board member "blackstone" sold ... Blackstone!
I think Blackstone was the manufacturer of the full sized Hoover washers and dryers in the 70's.
"manufacturer of the full sized Hoover washers and dryers in the 70's."
Yes, they were!
Yes, they were!
In common with many others Blackstone Manufacturing Company got it's start making other things before laundry appliances. Everything from automobiles to radiators. Something that continued more or less even after they got into washers and dryers.
Blackstone is still around as "Blackstone Manufacturing", but they long since got out of laundry appliance business. As with so many laundry appliance manufacturers market just became too competitive by 1970's and 1980's.
https://www.post-journal.com/life/f.../#:~:text=In 1880, the company was,Blackstone.
It pays to wander about the archives.
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?20207
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bla...U7vATUQrQIoBHoECCIQBQ&biw=983&bih=671&dpr=1.3
Blackstone is still around as "Blackstone Manufacturing", but they long since got out of laundry appliance business. As with so many laundry appliance manufacturers market just became too competitive by 1970's and 1980's.
https://www.post-journal.com/life/f.../#:~:text=In 1880, the company was,Blackstone.
It pays to wander about the archives.
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?20207
https://www.google.com/search?q=Bla...U7vATUQrQIoBHoECCIQBQ&biw=983&bih=671&dpr=1.3
As always, Laundress comes through! Thank you very much! Greg
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As mentioned above, our family had a TV/appliance store in Spingfield, Mass. and we were Blackstone dealers; from the 1950s (just before my time), until the mid-1970s, when Blackstone went out of the appliance business. I have manuals and literature for most all Blackstones. Parts inventory sold when cleaning out the business in the mid-2000s.
Pictures below show the Blackstone model 350 which was in our kitchen; me, in 2006, preparing a model 250 for sale and delivery to a club member; and a newspaper ad from 1954, showing the fold-down table (also made in Jamestown, NY), which was a sales promotion. I still have the table.
I sold all the Blackstone appliances; subsequently, I reacquired Blackstone dryer matching the 350 washer.
Fred
As mentioned above, our family had a TV/appliance store in Spingfield, Mass. and we were Blackstone dealers; from the 1950s (just before my time), until the mid-1970s, when Blackstone went out of the appliance business. I have manuals and literature for most all Blackstones. Parts inventory sold when cleaning out the business in the mid-2000s.
Pictures below show the Blackstone model 350 which was in our kitchen; me, in 2006, preparing a model 250 for sale and delivery to a club member; and a newspaper ad from 1954, showing the fold-down table (also made in Jamestown, NY), which was a sales promotion. I still have the table.
I sold all the Blackstone appliances; subsequently, I reacquired Blackstone dryer matching the 350 washer.
Fred
