Re:# 6
After I made the post I realized that my Aunt’s Westie Slant front set was actually either ‘53’s or ‘54’s, not ‘55’s. They had the dark red bakelite control knobs. They moved into the house that I remember them from in ‘55, but they actually had these machines in their former home before the move.
Anyway, they were beautiful to me at the age of 4 and the most intriguing washer and dryer set that I had access to viewing in my childhood. No one else that I knew had anything else like them. They really sparked my lifelong interest in washing machines.
And my Aunt loved them too. They sold their home in ‘64 and the Westie’s stayed with the home because my aunt and uncle moved into an apartment without WD hookup’s. They never ever had a repairman out to service either the washer or the dryer and with 3 kids those machines were running every time I was visiting their home, just doing what they were supposed to do.
Eddie