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Found this on Kijiji here in Montreal. Looks it might be a 1955 or 1956 model - I wonder if this might provide me with an example of thermostat hookup and wiring on my 56 Combo which I still have to try and get going as a dryer...
Quick translation of the text for les membres qui ne parlent pas le français: "Antique General Electric brand dryer from the 1950s. In good condition. Must be sold".
Hmm... is it me or did I just hear Hubby fainting in Sao Paulo??

 
I remember that dryer and matching washer being put in as an "insert" in the owners manual of the GE that looks like the one Jetcone has (as well as the recent POD) that introduces the FF--has a center dial and 4 turqoise buttons on the right-hand side. This particular set, I vaguely rember is some sort of designation as something like Fabri-Flex. Timer was one knob and temp was the other knob that had Hot, off, and warm settings and MAY have had cold. The water saver was a long horizontal toggle inbetween the two dials. I think the last time I saw those guides was when I was about 12 or 13, mom pitched those guides as well as the 1959/1960 Waste King's guide when the 1968 Waste King arrived.
 
That GE washer was my folk's first automatic washer. Bob, you are right. it had a "fabri-flex" dial on the left. It was a water temp dial....hot, warm, and off. Right dial was the cycle dial, and the water saver push bar was green in the middle. Copper control panel centered in the middle of the console. My mom got this machine when my older sis was born, so it was about 1953. It lasted until about 1965. The famed transmission started agitating and spinning at the same time. After waiting the whole summer of '65 for a GE washer, they went to Sears and bought a Lady Kenmore alphabet washer. That machine was so much quieter than the GE. The GE sounded like a cement mixer.
 
Just got back

From seeing this dryer. It was different, but it didn't reach out to me... The cabinet had been repainted almond; inside drum was great and it still worked great. This was not an automatic-dry model, so 1954 as its model year makes a lot of sense. One thing that I found different - the lint trap was in a drawer at the bottom of the cabinet. I am guessing this unit was not vented to the outdoors.
 
Seems to me it can vented outside or in.

Down in the bottom with the lint drawer is a 30 amp screw-in fuse.

And there is a water "sprinkler" cylinder attached to one of the lifting vanes in the tub.

The door handle opened the door with a knock of your knee. It rocks in either direction and the door pops open.
 
John thanks for the fabri-flex verification. The washer that we had that is like the one jetcone has in his collection (that wass his cildhood washer) didn't have Filter-Flo either. I've only seen one other and it was the washer one of my mom's good friends had (along with ahamilton gas dryer)--we had a Norge TimeLIine. Anyway, someone here dug up that the washer we had was a unique or special model in that year's line-up--the no FF.
 
GE's First Design

This looks like GE's first dryer design. From my understanding, the concept was similar to that of the large commercial dryers with the down-flow heat. The heat source is at the top, and the fan is on the bottom, drawing the heated air down through the perforated cylinder. I also understand that it had a 3" diameter exhaust. Those dryers were known to be whisper-quiet.

Gary
 

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