Anyone looking for the very earliest Maytag parts should consider taking a truck. Maytag has changed a good deal as a business since it was first established in 1893 -- as a farm equipment company!
Frederick Louis Maytag moved to Iowa as a young farm boy in a covered wagon. He grew up on the farm and as a man in 1893 he, his two brothers-in-laws and George W. Parsons each contributed $600 to start a farm implement business. With this war chest of $2400 the company started building farm equipment such as threshing machines, band-cutters and a revolutionary self-feeder attachment for the threshing machines, invented by one of the founders of the company.
This self-feed attachment was distinctive for its time because it was one of the first machines intended to make farming safer rather than easier. Farming was quite dangerous in those days (even more so than today) -- especially the thrashing machines -- and this attachment was a terrific success. The money from this innovation helped the new company to survive its challenging early years.
By 1902, the company was the biggest feeder manufacturer in the country.
In 1905, Maytag unveiled the Success Corn Husker and Shredder, expanding its profitable farm implement line. Hay presses, hog waters (no, I don't know what they are either) and numerous specialized feeders and harvesting equipment appeared between 1907 and 1911.
Interestingly, Maytag also produced an automobile, the "Maytag-Mason Automobile", for a short amount of time in the early 1900's. And as late as 1916, Maytag Company briefly produced farm tractors.
Fred Louis Maytag first began selling quality home appliances in 1907.
It was first thought that these products would merely relieve the seasonal slumps in the farm equipment business.
The first Maytag washer was the 1907 "Pastime" washer. These earliest Maytag washer parts included a wooden tub that included a hand crank that turned a dolly inside, with wooden pegs, which in turn, pulled clothes through the wash water and against the corrugated tub sides.
Improvements on this first washing machine were constant and in 1911 a model with an electric motor was announced with a pulley mechanism that allowed the machine to be operated from an outside power source. It was also intended to be turned with the "outside power source" of your arm if you had no electricity, as was the case with many buildings of the time.
To help ease this problem further, four years later Maytag announced its Multi-Motor gasoline engine washer. This was particularly intended for the rural homemakers who did not have access to electric power and it was extremely popular. The
Maytag replacement parts for these models are much valued by serious collectors today.
In 1919 Maytag engineers succeeded in casting the first all-aluminum washer tub. Quite a few in the trade had been discussing this for several years and it had become referred to as the "The washer that could not be built" because of the difficulties in shaping that large an aluminum piece. Up to this time washer tubs were make of wooden slats.
Expansion into a global company and world-wide leader quickly followed and in the 1920's under the management of L. B. Maytag, son of the founder, who served as company president from 1920 and 1926, a new type of washer was invented that replaced the dolly under the lid with an agitator in the bottom of the tub. This straightforward design has stood the test of time and is the one still used primarily today.
Maytag first introduced this type washer in 1922, and it was a fantastic success. The new washer design put Maytag exclusively into the washer business, prompted the end of farm equipment production and propelled the company to a preeminent position in the young laundry appliance industry.
By 1927 the company had produced its first million washers.
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