A Universal Mix-A-Beater hand mixer. Probably my grandmother’s. I can’t even guess at its age. The motor smells like good cakes every time I run it.
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A Universal Mix-A-Beater hand mixer. Probably my grandmother’s. I can’t even guess at its age. The motor smells like good cakes every time I run it.
They knew how to make them to last back then. Bet it was made in the USA.
Yeah, had to have been USA. I found a label on it. Landers, Frary & Clark. New Britain, Connecticut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landers,_Frary_%26_Clark
“They manufactured a wide variety of products over the years, including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products.”
Wow! What a variety of products from this defunct American company. Sold to GE in 1965 so your appliance predates that making it at least 50 years old if not older. And it’s still mixing! 🙂
I had to look up bull-nose ring as I just didn’t believe it.
Many appliances today are from “fallen brands”, brands that were once known for quality but are now shells. Some names that come to mind: Maytag, Hoover, Kenmore, Schwinn bicycles. They are temporarily riding on a former reputation until even that disappears. I bought a Waring-Pro blender that has a nice, heavy, painted, beehive body. It looks like the old good ones, and the ones you see in bars, but inside it has a weak motor that is probably from their cheapest model.
The trend, of course, is cheap and disposable. Sometimes you can’t get quality even if you’re willing to pay for it.