Westinghouse POD

[pulsator-power]

So, anyone know the year of today's POD?
Is it 1964?
I saw one recently, and wasn't familliar with the control panel.
It had a gray, straight vaned, unusual agitator.
Was it Easy made?
Jerry

 

[Unimatic1140]

I think it is 1964. Yes this washer was the only Westinghouse solid basket washer ever produced. Jerry did you find an ad or did you actually see this machine in person? It is EXTREMELY rare to say the least.

 

[pulsator-power]

Robert, I saw it. It was about 3 or 4 months ago, sitting in a roll away dumpster. I don't remember if it had a solid tub or not, though, but the agitator was unique. It was a gray, straight vaned one with concentric circles that started wider at the bottom & got narrower as they went up to the top- maybe 3-4 rows of them. It just didn't look like any other Westinghouse I'd seen before. It had the same exact shaped control panel, but I don't remeber if the dial was in the center or the right side.
Jerry

 

[westytoploader]

Why didn't you pick it up??? ;-)

 

[golittlesport]

Jerry...that machine you saw sounds like it may have been a BOL Westinghouse-made machine from the latter sixties, early seventies. They had a very similar shaped control panel, although the control knob was on the right side rather than in the middle. The agitator was a lint-filter agitator with straight vanes. (The higher priced models had a recirculating lint filter tray and a spiral vaned agitator.) The lint filter agitator had those concentric circles and straight vanes. Although I do not know so for a fact, I would think the Easy-made Westinghouse had an Easy Spiralator agitator in it, similar to Hotpoint's, with a filter pan on it.
Wouldn't it be great to find one of these?

 

[david]

Mom had one of these

We bought this Easy-made Westinghouse top-loader identical to the POD in 1962. I believe they were produced for 2 or 3 years; by 1964 I think the machine may have changed in design. It had a solid dark-porcelein tub, holes along the top edge of the tub and a wire flow guard to prevent socks and the like from flowing over the top into the outer tub. The agitator was spiral shaped and the post part was roughly 4 to 5 inches in diameter. It had a turquoise lint filter of the burp-up variety. No recirculation like the GE and no overflow rinse. Had a fast spin. Washed quite well, never gave us any real trouble. When it began leaking oil around age 13, my Mom bought a Whirlpool and gave this old Westy to a man who fixed it and used it at an airplane hanger to wash shop rags with.

 

[pulsator-power]

Golittlesport: Your'e probably right, that sounds more like the machine. It was sitting smack in the middle of the roll away, with others wedged in. Plus for a few other reasons, I did't go for it.
Jerry

 

[peteski50]

Mom had one of these

David,
I'm surprised it didn't have a overflow rinse with a solid tub!
Peter

 

[david]

Peter-The fill spout sprayed the water into the machine instead of a waterfall like so many machines. When the spray rinse during spin started the water would spray hitting the agitator and flying out of the machine onto the floor(messy). To avoid this you had to leave the lid down and couldn't watch the progression. I think these would have been better with waterfall fill and overflow rinse.