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Appliance Manufacturer is a fun magazine to read for any collector or enthusiast of vintage appliances, electronics and other vintage home products. This highly entertaining magazine covered the design and manufacturing areas of Major Appliances, Small Appliances, Small Electrics, Radios, Televisions and other electric home products from the mid-20th century. [U][B]Index of the April 1957 Home Laundry Issue[/B][/U] [B][I]On The Cover:[/I][/B] The six combination washer-dryer units being produced and marketed by appliance manufacturers are shown on this month’s cover. These products are the keynote for the discussion of their potential by the manufacturers — Easy, General Electric, Hotpoint, Westinghouse, Philco, Whirlpool. All have their own ideas on how much, how soon. The views are on page 43. [B][I]Featured Articles: [/I][/B] An Editorial—The Sky Is the Limit Laundry appliance potentials have never been greater. [B]Cover Story: What Lies Ahead for Washer-Dryer Combinations. . .[/B] Six men toss out some ideas on how much and how soon. [B]Maytag's New Look in Washer Assembly Lines[/B] Flexible power—and—free conveyor simplifies handling of Highlander Washers. [B]How Westinghouse Fabricates Space Mate Dryer Drums[/B] New machines bring both product and production gains. [B]Imagineering Toward 1965 Is Goal of AHLMA Meeting[/B] To stir thought on materials, production and product. [B]Dryer Education Program Strives to Smooth Production[/B] Charles Rippe of Hamilton gives answers about effort. [B]Design of the Month—Norge's Luxury Line Dryer[/B] A look at how the objectives in design were achieved. [B]Is the Ironer Market Dead?[/B] Ironrite’s Richard Gottlieb offers some candid views. [B]How Hotpoint Designed the Wonderinse Dispenser[/B] Fabric Softening agent is injected during rinse cycle. [B]Automatic Gas Range Conference Works Two Ways[/B] Program works for exchange of ideas with the editors. [B]What's New in Major Appliances and Electric Housewares[/B] A round-up of the latest news in products and design. Products covered: Air-d-lux Room Cooler, Airtemp Automobile Air Conditioner, Frigidaire Food Freezer, Eureka Vacuum Cleaner, All Metal Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner, Trion Air Cleaner. [B][I]Monthly Departments:[/I][/B] The Editor's Random Harvest, AM Highlights the News, Calendar of Industry Meetings, A Report from Washington, New Products Showcase, Appliance Manufacturer Notes, News of the Suppliers, A Peek at the Decision-Makers, New Bulletins, Advertising Index, Jim Dandy Says [B][I]Full Page Vintage Ads:[/I][/B] Packard Motors, Lamson and Sessions Hardware, Stemco Thermostats, Philco uses Distinctive Finishes, AMP Wire Connectors, Gaylord Appliance Boxes, Guardian Electric, Fairmont Aluminum, Fiberfil, Danly Preses, Dahlstrom Machinery, Delco Electric Motors, Peters-Dahlton Power Spray Washes, Gear Specialties, Glidden Finishes, Torrington Fan Blades, Alan Wood Steel for Electrolux Vacuums, BF Goodrich Rivets, Revere Aluminum, Tinnerman Speed Nuts, Pittsburgh Paints, Waste King uses International Paper, DuPont, Speed Queen uses McQuay-Norris ignition, Wean Equipment, Dot Escutcheon Fasteners, Amerock Hardware, Philco uses Dulux Enamel, Essex Electric Cords, Telechron Timer Motors, Link-Lock Fasteners, Apollo Metal, Copeland Compressors, Garlock Pump Seals, Potter and Brumfield, Allegheny Ludlum, GM Steel tubing by Rochester Products, Parker-Kalon Fasteners, Cleveland Presses, American Lava Die Press, Reading Tube, SPS Hardware, Incoloy Mesh Screens, Dupont Freon, Fasco Appliance Motors, Southern Scew, Taylor-Winfield, Inland Steel, Stuco Appliance Motors, Wallace Tool and Die, Dole Water Valves, Ranco Air Conditioning Controls, Morain Products Div of GM, Packard Wiring, Crucible Steel, Ransburg Porcelain Enamel, Daton Rubber Solves Three Problems in: Automatic Clothes Dryer, Home Workshop Tool, Automatic Clothes Washer, Miro-bright Coating Products, Driver-Harries Electric Heating Elements, Weirton Steel, DuPont Lucite, Glidden Paint on Maytag Washers and Dryers, Clearing Press, Ohio Knife, Lancaster Glass used in Westinghouse Laundromat Washers and Dryers, Sherwin-Williams Industrial Finishes. [B][I]Double Full Page Vintage Ad Spreads: [/I][/B] Union Boxes, Reynolds Alumnium Portable TV Cabinets, Doehler-Jarvis Cameras, General Electric non-Synchronous Control. [B][I]Other Ads: [/I][/B] General Industries, Dialight Appliance Indicators, Circle F Appliance Switches, Hassall Hardware, Aerovox Capacitor Protectors, Electric Cordsets, Hart Thermostats, National Lock, Dreis and Krump, Wisconsin Porcelain, Westinghouse Appliance Motors, Thermodisc Thermostats, Eaton Hose Clamps, Louthan Electrical Porcelains, Meyercord Nameplate Decals, Corbin Water Clamps, Dollin Nameplates, Alpha-Molykote helps Vacuum Cleaner Caps, Stewart Warner Meat Thermometers, Phalo Plastics, Bently Harris Fiberglas Oven Seals, Haydon Switches, Barber-Coleman Small Motors, Lux Timers, Pyramid Washing Machine/Range Trim Rings.

Here is the complete owners manual, operating instructions and recommended recipes for all 1953 GE Electric Ranges. Sections include: Introduction Your New “Liberator” Range Your New “Stratoliner” Range Surface Cooking with Calrod How the Calrod unit Operates Introducing “Push-button” Cooking Your “Push-button” Controls The “When” in “Cooking by Color” The Stratoliner “Tripl-Unit” Your Liberator Ovens The Stratoliner “Tripl-Oven” Features Master Oven, Companion Oven, Speed Oven, Super Broiler Calrod units in the Oven, too How to Set the Oven Controls Automatic Oven Timer Care and Cleaning A Suggestion on Pots and Pans Helpful Hints on Cooking Surface Cooking Deep-fat Frying Time and Temperature Chart Recipes How to Use Thrift Cooker Oven cooking—Electrically How to Roast How to Bake How to Broil Complete Oven Meals Recipes [I]There’s a new star in your kitchen... a modern General Electric Automatic Electric Range. New joys, new experiences in meal getting pleasures will swiftly unfold, whether you’ve been cooking for years or are a new bride preparing your first meal for your adoring husband. Perhaps you’ve used other types of fuel for cooking. If so, then you will know new thrills and experiences after you’ve learned to cook the modern way—with electricity. Or perhaps you’ve been using electricity for cooking, but have an older model electric range. Then, a new horizon in electric cooking is yours...it’s “Push-button Magic” for added convenience, added speed, and added pleasure. Whatever method you’ve been using before, your pride and pleasure in your new “Push-button” General Electric Range will grow year-in and year-out. But...to enjoy its fullest pleasures, you must know and understand the many, many advantages of modern electric cooking. With proper care and proper use, your new range will give years of pleasant, dependable, economical service. Come, let’s meet your new range, and become acquainted with its many features, its many advantages. For ... in knowing your G-E Range intimately, you will have more freedom from your kitchen. Your General Electric Range will be your silent servant ... to free you of many time-consuming cooking tasks.[/I]

Complete service manual to all 1954 Kelvinator Electric Ranges. Models include: ER425, ER455, ER495, ER435, ER475, ER495D, ER325, ER375. Sections include: Installation, Electrical Characteristics, Range Maintenance and Servicing, Wiring Diagrams.

Complete 74 page service manual to all Franklin automatic washers. Models include AIB, AIC, AID, AIE, AIF, AIJ and AIK. [I]The purpose of this manual is to assist the servicer by giving them the proper knowledge that he may correctly carry out the following important points which lead to good customer relation. A. How to correctly uncrate the Automatic Washer. B. How to correctly install the machine. C. How to correctly instruct the customer of its use. D. How to correctly dismantle and reassemble machine. E. How to diagnose and correct service reports which they might encounter. Throughout this manual we will not refer to your individual models but will cover all variations by referring to factory model numbers which are contained in the serial number found on the serial plate of each machine. Example: XAIB-YZOOO. The letters AIB or second, third, and fourth letters and digits will indicate the factory model numbers. [/I]

Consumer Bulletin was a highly respected consumer product information magazine from the 1930's onward. It was the main competitor to Consumer Reports from the 1930's through the 1960's. [B]Articles on Products and Ratings in this issue include:[/B]

• Anti-freeze
• Floor waxes (brands tested: Aerowax, Beacon, Beautiflor, Butcher, Continental, Ful-Gleam, Fullustre, Johnson's Glo-Coat, Johnson's Paste, Kengrip, Klear, Preen, Sears Maid of Honor, Simoniz, Stanley, Stride, Wilbert)
• Should you wax your floors?
• Pop-up toasters (brands tested: Fostoria, General Electric, Hamilton Beach, Nelson, Toastmaster, Westinghouse)
• Painting of galvanized steel
• Painkillers and "cold remedies"
• Patent medicines bought over the druggist’s counter without prescription may often be dangerous
• Home is where the hazard is... [I]You can’t be too careful around moving machinery— many household appliances have their perils. One unsafe condition or one unsafe act may be the cause of an accident. If both occur, as may happen, you, or a child in the home, are likely to be in real trouble[/I]
• Low-priced stereo amplifier
• Three stereo pickup cartridges (brands tested: General Electric, Shure Custom, Shure Professional).
• Removing tree stumps
• Paint at a bargain?
• "National Titanium" is with us again
• Misleading labels on electric appliances
• Single-solution processing of photographic film
• First, send for the fire department—unskilled attempts to put out fires are often futile, may be fatal
• Clippings on matters of consumer interest are welcome
• Eliminating bats

[B]Regular Features Include:[/B]

• The Consumers’ Observation Post
• Brief cumulative index
• Editorial [I]What is a good television program, and who says so?[/I]
• Listings of Current Phonograph Records
• Ratings of Current Motion Pictures

Here is the service and parts manual to the first square window Frigidaire commercial washer model WCL with the Super Duty transmission (1010rpm spin). Also covers the very first coin-operated Rollermatic washer, models WCAL, WCAL-M and WCAL-MLP. Sections include, Cycle of Operation Chart, Specifications, Installation, Service Diagnosis, Service Operations, Complete Mechanism rebuilding instructions, Tools, etc. Full parts list included at the end for all models.

Here is the service and parts manual to the second design of commercial/coin-operated Frigidaire washer for Laundromats and Coin-Laundry Facilities. This model is the very first time a Unimatic transmission was placed into a 27" washer. Sections include, Cycle of Operation Chart, Specifications, Installation, Service Diagnosis, Service Operations, Complete Unimatic Mechanism rebuilding instructions, Tools, etc.

Here is the service and parts manual to the very first commercial/coin-operated Frigidaire washer for Laundromats and Coin-Laundry Facilities. Sections include, Specifications, Cycle Chart, Service Instructions, Parts Diagrams and Parts List with original part numbers.

Here is the owners manual that was packed with every 1949 Maytag Gas Range. Models include M6140GM, M6131GA, M6140GA, M6131CPA. [I]Since cooking is a creative art that requires good equipment, the Maytag Dutch Oven is an invaluable aid in preparing the best of everything for the family. It provides more speed, greater cleanliness, further convenience, added economy and finer all-around performance. The Top Platform, the Dual Performance Oven, the Sizzle-Serve Broiler and the Dutch Cooker Well all save you work and effort, and each brings you more leisure time for other things. In every way, your Maytag is more than a purchase; it’s an investment in better living for years to come. As the pages of this book are turned, study the ideas, procedures, cooking techniques, methods and suggested recipes. They will bring out the full advantage of your range. They will help you save time and money. And they will provide new taste thrills for your family, as well as new homemaking pleasures for you.[/I]

Here is the complete owners manual and use/care guide to all top freezer GE refrigerators from the early 1950's.

Complete service manual to all Kelvinator wringers washers from 1954. Models include: WB, WBP, WC, WCP, WE, WEP. Sections include: Installation, Electrical and Mechanical Parts, Lubrication, Service Diagnosis, Specifications.

Here is the full owners manual and operating instruction guide to all 1949 Westinghouse Electric Ranges. Models include: A774-49, B74-49, D74-49, E64-49. Sections Include: Getting to know your range, How to use your range, Care and cleaning your range, High Altitude Cooking, Recipes and Cooking Charts for Westinghouse Ranges. [I]It’s all yours now! Your treasure of a brand-new Electric Range. You’ll love it...because it’s so superbly automatic ...saves energy and leaves you more time for a dozen and one other things. And because it’s so very easy to use. you’ll have praiseworthy results every time. But wondrous as this Range is, it can’t perform miracles without your co-operation. That’s why it’s so essential that you become thoroughly acquainted with its every part and function...learn how to use it properly...how to care for it so that it does more and lasts longer. Remember, you’ll use your Range more than any other appliance you own! So take a minute right now to carefully study this book—especially the section that refers to your particular Range. We've done our best to “tell all” and give you the complete story. What’s more, we've included a couple hundred tried and tested recipes with which you can please the family. In no sense do we claim this to be a complete cookbook, so don’t hesitate to continue using your favorite recipes, too, and watch how beautifully they’ll turn out on your new Range![/I]

The complete service manuals to Kelvinator automatic washers models AWS, SW and 50. Sections include: Information and Specification pertaining to each model, Control Dial and Agitator images for each model, Lubrication, Service Diagnosis, etc.

The complete owners manual/use and care guide to all 1956 Hotpoint Refrigerator-Freezers.

Complete service manual and parts list to the rare Beam dishwasher.

Here is a brochure from White-Westinghouse showing off their front loading washer and dryer as well as their compact laundry twins.

This is a 20 page catalog of highlighting Thermador appliances from the early 1980's. [I]Appliances Include in this catalog:[/I] Micro/Thermal Built-in Ovens Microwave/Self Cleaning Ovens Microwaves Self Cleaning Built-In Ovens Drop in Electric Ranges Thermaglass Cooktops Standard Cooktops Gas-Fired Barbaque Thermador Stay-Hot Warming Oven Thermador Built-in Can Opener Built-In Dishwashers Trash Compactor Range Hoods Ventilators Fan Heaters Portable Electric Heaters.

Here is a very rare "genericized" owners manual for all Franklin made automatic washers from the around 1970. This would have been packed with brands such as Bradford, Gibson, Coronado, Co-Op, Gambles, Kelvinator etc.

Here is the complete owners manual packed with 1962 Ward Signature dryer. Models include: UAN-7718A, UAN-7818A, UAN-8718A, UAN-8818A.

This adorable brochure from Dexter helps prospective buyers decided whether to buy a Automatic Washer, Wringer Washer or Double-Tub Wringer washer. Gives situations when each would be a best machine to have. The rare Dexter automatic washer is seen as well. All Dexter laundry products at this time were produced by Philco.