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Here is the complete owners manual to the 1950 Western Holly Gas Range. Sections include: Baking and Baking Oven Barbecue-Broyl Oven Barbecuing, various meats Broiler Care of Your Range Cooking-Baking Times & Temperatures Cooking Clock Disappearing Shelf Drip Trays Grease Cup Handy Hints on Homemaking Minitmaster Oven Racks, how to remove Oven Windows Recipes Storage & Crisping Compartment Storage Drawer Tempo-Plates Vanishing Grill

These brochures highlight the Silhouette series of Hotpoint washer and dryers. Abosolutey beautiful brochures to show off absolutely beautiful machines. Detailed images and specifications.

Set of materials packaged with Whirlpool Automatic Washers models LKA670-0 and suds model LKA670-5. Includes operating instructions, installation instructions and The Laundry Primer washing book.

GM/Frigidaire had outsourced most of their appliance service tool production to Robinair and a few other companies for decades. Here is the 1959 Frigidaire tool catalog. Sections include Laundry, Dishwasher, Disposer, Ranges and Refrigerator speciality service tools. Washer tools include all service tools for the Unimatic, Pulsamatic and Multimatic (both 2 and 4 speed models). Catalog lists full part numbers which makes it a very good reference guide for searching out some of these service tools which make working on these machines much easier.

Here is a super fun circular given out by the power utility company to entice people to replace their old appliances and update their kitchen and laundry. Its full of model kitchens with many different brands and types of appliances shown including General Electric, Hotpoint, Kenmore, Westinghouse and a few others that I'm not exactly sure what brand they are. See if you can name all of the brands in these pages and please let us know!

Here is true history for Hobart/KitchenAid home dishwashers. An absolutely beautiful brochure highlighting all the features of the KitchenAid's first dishwasher produced for residential installations as well as the entire Owners Manual and Operating Instructions! Check out the stainless steel racks, a rare KitchenAid for sure.

Full owners manual that was packed with every 1956 KitchenAid Dishwasher, models KD-11, KD-21, KD-31 and KD-41.

Here is the complete 84 page owners manual to all 1953 Westinghouse Electric Ranges. Includes complete information on the Electronic Surface Unit and the Two-Level Speed Cooker. Models covered include: AH - Commander, FH - Imperial 30, BH - Imperial 40, CH - Custom 40, DH - Champion and EH - Commodore.

Here is an wonderful sales literature brochure for the 1955 Kelvinator automatic washer AW-2. Also included is the complete service manual for this model as well as model AWV. Please note that the mechanical section of this service manual is valid servicing the ABC-o-Matic/Kelvinator/Lenord washers through the mid 1960s.

Beautiful sales literature brochure from Sears showing off their 1981 line of automatic washers and dryers. Here are the black and gold control panel Kenmore washers and dryers at their finest. This sales brochure was produced and given out at Sears stores and was more in-depth than the standard Sears catalog descriptions of the time.

The VIP-Vital Information Program packs were sent to Frigidaire dealers every year in the 60s to help educate them on all of the fancy features of GM Frigidaire appliances. Each pack contains information on a different Frigidaire appliance, this pack shows off all of Frigidaire's beautiful electric ranges, "40, 30" and Flair models. They contain specs, data and beautiful graphics and images as well as plenty of information instructing dealers on what to say to help sell Frigidaire appliances to their customers.

Sears produced some of the nicest looking owners manuals in the 50s and 60s and this one is no exception. This owners manual covers four automatic washers from 1964, three of them are "Alphabet" style machines! Series included are the 6471, 31470, 70 and 11480 models.

As usual Hotpoint produced some of the most beautiful advertising brochures in the appliance industry. Here is both the entire Sales Literature Brochure as well as the complete Owners Manual to the mid 1950's Hotpoint automatic dishwasher. This was the last 27" Hotpoint dishwasher design before they redesigned their dishwashers to the 24" size.

Full owners manual, operating instructions and a ton of recipes for the Model 3C planetary kitchen mixer. Full instructions and recipes for using the following attachment as well: Can Opener, Food Chopper/Meat Grinder Fruit Juicer, Ice Cream Freezer, Knife Sharpener, Oil Dropper, Pea Sheller, Silver Buffer, Slicer and Shredder.

Large 8.5" x 11" advertising catalog showing off GE's new post-war small home appliances. Beautiful hand-drawn illustrations throughout! Appliances included: Irons, Travel Irons, Triple-Whip Mixer, Mixer Accessories, Automatic Roaster, Vacuum Coffee Makers, Coffeemaker Stoves, Coffeemaker Filters and Replacement Bowls, Automatic Toaster, Waffle Irons, and Sandwich Grills.

In typical GE fashion of the 60's, here are some absolutely beautiful brochures showing off the built-in and Mobile-Maid models of GE dishwashers.

Here is the entire line of 1974 Norge 20lb pound washers and matching dryers. Brochures contain photos and complete specifications for each model including full control panel displays.

This service manual is absolutely indispensable for any collector of vintage automatic washers, dryers or dishwashers. It's focus is on servicing Malloy timers. Getting timers rebuilt properly is getting harder and harder and in time we will have to completely rely on our own skills to repair these delicate timing devices. Sections include: [I] TIMER TEST AND MOTOR REPLACEMENT TESTING COMPLETE TIMER TIMER MOTOR REPLACEMENT, Mallory Timers ESCAPEMENTS CHECKING CONTACT PRESSURE REPLACING TIMER THERMOSTAT [/I] The checking contact pressure section shows how to fix the 2nd most common time issue next to timer motor failure. Mallory timers were used in most automatic washers from the 1950s thru 1970s and this service manual is valid for any brand that used Mallory timers.

Full owners manual and operating instructions for the WO-65-2 Unimatic washer. This model is the very first overflow-rinse model, produced from 1952 through 1954.

Many of us remember these coin operated washers in the laundromats from years ago. Here are some sales brochures showing the dial control and coin op version of these commercial automatic washers. Also included is a brochure for the Philco-Bendix coin-operated Deluxe Dry Cleaner.