TOL VHQ Norge Pair

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Suddenly it is 1967 again and you can almost

 

                                     Hear The Sound Of Silent Quality   Knock on Any Norge........

 

I found another interesting washer and dryer for the appliance museum, a matched pair of TOL Norges, the dryer is even GAS.

These will need a little more work than the recently acquired 1950 GE washer but I have a plan to restore them into excellent running condition. Many thanks to Rich, train-guy in Pa. for spotting and holding on to this cool and very rare pair, what a great guy.

 

 

 

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Norges

As you can see the washer is in pretty rough shape, but fortunately Tom and I rescued a MOL Norge many years ago that was dropped of a truck onto its control panel that was in mint condition otherwise. I saved this damaged Norge all these years hopping to find a good top and control panel.

 

Close-up of washer timer dial

 

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Norges

As you can see the washer is in pretty rough shape, but fortunately Tom and I rescued a MOL Norge many years ago that was dropped of a truck onto its control panel that was in mint condition otherwise. I saved this damaged Norge all these years hopping to find a good top and control panel.

 

Close-up of washer timer dial

 

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Washer push-buttons

 

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Dryer panel

close-up

 

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Dryer push-bottons

 

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Gas Burner Area

Under the lid, dual level gas valve, this was Norges version of the Modulating Soft Heat that KM was using on their better dryers, once the load got to a certain temperature where the majority of the moisture was gone to burner cycled down to the lower input.

 

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Washer inside showing [ dirt ] and the dual timed electric dispensers and lint filter basket, this Norge has a real pump driven recirculation lint filter, no silly burpa-lator agitator that wastes tub capacity and only moves a 1/4 of the water through the lint filter, and because the lint filter is stationary it is not acting like a sifter and allowing much of the fine lint to just through the mesh.

 

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Norge Washer Down Under

Ralph I though of you when we picked this machine up, the lower bearing had a dramatic failure and completely destroyed the drive pulley [ I would have hatted to see what this failure did to the owners floor ] When Ted and I were trying to move the washer he though it had a center leg, LOL.

 

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Dryer Shot

Showing the THREE WAY hamper door, opened to the loading position

 

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Norge By

Borg-Warner

 

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1967 Norge VHQ Pair

These will be a fun pair to use and a fairly easy restoration, the bulk of the washer has already been sent on to become a Toyoda after stripping all unique parts from this one, including the three speed washer motor.

 

[gansky1]

Love 'em! The blue agitator in the washer is so pretty.

 

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Interesting Agitator

I've never seen a Norge 4 vane agitator where the wings don't go all the way down and meet up with the vanes on the skirt. Was this an evolution of the larger capacity 4 vane agitator from the smaller capacity version?

 

[Unimatic1140]

I was just thinking the same thing about that agitator, I've never seen that version I wonder if this is their first non-black bakelite agitator, it must be.

 

[jetcone]

I've never seen that agitator either

What a cool control panel all lit up and with speedometer dials that apparently turn backwards??? How weird, Chuck is gonna have  a hard time with this one!! CCW is a n0-n0.

 

Are these 15 16 or 18 pounders??

 

So many good machines were made it still amazes me what is out there after 30 years of collecting!

 

 

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

WOW John, CONGRATS on another exciting find!  

 

Yeah that blue agitater is really neat!

 

What are the small knobs on either side of the timer dial?   I assume one is water level, but what is the other?

AND..... what are all the little knobs on the dryer for?

 

I'm look forward to hearing about and seeing the results after the restoration!

 

Kevin

 

[rickr]

Great looking rare Norge by B.W. pair! I do love the old Norges. When I first saw Roberts beautiful 1956, they became my favourite vintage machine.

 

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Reply #8

For those who aren't familiar with the situation, here is what our '67 Snorge did to the then-newly-laid tile floor beneath it: