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collector2
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Just re reading this thread and have another bit of info to add. Premier was not a separate company. Premier and Hotpoint were subsidiaries of GE, having been bought out by GE in the 20s if memory serves. For many years the same vacuum cleaners were marketed under all 3 names, just in different colours. So technically it was not a buy out when the vacuums were all changed to the Premier name. They just switched vacuum cleaner manufacturing to that division of the company in the US.
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I learned about GE not offering replacement parts long ago! Had an aunt that broke the bowl of her model 25 GE stand mixer. This was some time around 1965. I tried writing to their listed service center in New Orleans and Houston about a replacement. Both responded that they no had no parts available since it was a discontinued model. GE had changed the bowl bowl capacity/dimensions of subsequent models from 3 to 3.5 qts. The bowl I did buy fit the turntable but would have little distance between the bowl and stand support. Turntable dimensions from the first triple whip (3 beater models) until they stopped making stand mixer never changed. Early ones were metal and later to plastic. GE was a pioneer in the use of plastics in appliance housings and internal parts. They were also first in having the "throw-away" mentality constructing appliances not designed for servicing using rivets and fasteners not meant to be removed once installed.
I learned about GE not offering replacement parts long ago! Had an aunt that broke the bowl of her model 25 GE stand mixer. This was some time around 1965. I tried writing to their listed service center in New Orleans and Houston about a replacement. Both responded that they no had no parts available since it was a discontinued model. GE had changed the bowl bowl capacity/dimensions of subsequent models from 3 to 3.5 qts. The bowl I did buy fit the turntable but would have little distance between the bowl and stand support. Turntable dimensions from the first triple whip (3 beater models) until they stopped making stand mixer never changed. Early ones were metal and later to plastic. GE was a pioneer in the use of plastics in appliance housings and internal parts. They were also first in having the "throw-away" mentality constructing appliances not designed for servicing using rivets and fasteners not meant to be removed once installed.
I am always interested in how companies expanded beyond the borders of their birthplace countries. General Electric is a great example, because the company set up both Canadian General Electric and Australian General Electric, both with modified versions of the famous cursive “GE in a circle” logo.
I wonder if British General Electric was connected to the American GE company. Same question for the German AEG company (do the initials stand for Algemeiner Electrische something or other?)
On another corporate footnote: The modern Korean LG company seems to have been inspired by GE. Though the initials represent the amalgamation of two older Korean corporations (Lucky and Goldstar), their logo looks like a modern version of GE’s, and their advertising slogan at one point was almost a carbon copy of “GE - We bring good things to life”…can’t remember now the LG slogan but it was very very similar!
I wonder if British General Electric was connected to the American GE company. Same question for the German AEG company (do the initials stand for Algemeiner Electrische something or other?)
On another corporate footnote: The modern Korean LG company seems to have been inspired by GE. Though the initials represent the amalgamation of two older Korean corporations (Lucky and Goldstar), their logo looks like a modern version of GE’s, and their advertising slogan at one point was almost a carbon copy of “GE - We bring good things to life”…can’t remember now the LG slogan but it was very very similar!
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