"softly lighted consoled and temperature indicator". Preferably a Lady Kenmore"
... back in the day... 1983ish... I must have come across five of those. both portable and built-in. Some had the electro-mechanical timer mounted underneath the tub, to the front, others hanging off and behind the control panel.
My guess is they moved the timer underneath to take weight off the door. There were all these light blue colored wires running between the panel and the timer. Each with it's own colored stripe to identify it.
The panels weren't exactly softly lit. There were two incandescent appliance bulbs in the button recess, then of course, there were all the other cycle progress lights that would illuminate in a faded orange color, to the right of the buttons. All this mounted in a solid metal/chrome frame.
I never had the models with the energy saver switch. I think most were scraped. Never would have thought anyone would desire one years later. Wish I had them now for someone else to have fun with.
Best of luck finding one.
Actually, if your interested, I saw a coffee colored portable, in a barn, in storage, in the Fall of 2010 in central Wisconsin. It was a family farm. If your interested, email me and I can get you information where it was. It had been sitting there for quite a while (dusty). My guess is it is still there along with another portable DW, the brand of which I don't know.
