history Dormeyer mixers?

[jenspears]

Hi - I'm new to the site. Found it by doing research on Dormeyer Mixers for my dissertation in art history. I'm curious if anyone knows what around what year the Dormeyer mixer was first made in different colors? And if these were plastic, or if there were earlier versions in different-colored enamels before they began making them in plastic? I'm writing about this sculpture made in vinyl, but trying to figure out if this was something recently available in stores, or if it was an older model when the artist made it in 1965. Becoming slightly obsessed with these old designs...am going to have to start collecting them when I'm done with this dissertation! This is an awesome website! Thanks!

http://amica.davidrumsey.com/luna/s...IT:AMICO~1~1&sort=INITIALSORT_CRN,OCS,AMICOID

 

[danemodsandy]

Jennifer:

You might do well to join the Yahoo! discussion group WACEM (We Actually Collect Electric Mixers); some members there may be able to help to a certain extent.

However, you need to know that you have picked a very difficult company to get info about. Dormeyer exited the home appliance business over forty years ago. No one knows where any records might be, if they even still exist.

Also, Dormeyer was notorious for frequent restyling of its appliances, for no reason anyone can figure out today. They were a very well-known company, the major competitor to Sunbeam. But Sunbeam had a slightly superior product, and a vastly superior "killer app" name - Mixmaster. It is possible that Dormeyer was trying to beat Sunbeam in the sales race with frequent restyling, but those restylings are very difficult to attribute dates to today; vintage ads are the ONLY surviving clue.

I have been a Dormeyer fan and collector for a long time, and own several machines, but please believe me, really reliable information on the company is hard to come by.

I wish you well with your project. The folks at WACEM can help you more than anyone else, trust me.

 

[jenspears]

Thank you! I will do that and will continue to look through old magazines for adverts! Be well!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I have 3 or 4

One is BRAND NEW. I like them, but prefer the Sunbeam "Mixmaster", plus, I have 2 Kitchenaids. One is a hand mixer.

 

[cajunvac]

Best guess is around 1955

Colors in Dormeyer portable electric appliance began in the mid-1950s. Best route to verify is to find vintage copies of the Bennett Bros. Blue Book catalog from that time period Some of the larger college universities libraries have copies of old catalogs.

 

[cajunvac]

Dormeyer Mixer History

A. F. Dormeyer Mfg. made many mixer models and there are few clear records of when various models were manufactured. There were vertical and horizontal motor models. They are credited having the first portable (hand held) mixer and the first mixer having detachable beaters (before 1930!) Dormeyer was also first to have a completely chromed mixer and stand with stainless steel bowls in 1955.

 

[kenkart]

The very FIRST Dormeyers

Were made by a company called the McLeod Manufacturing company , I have several of these very early models The colors were introduced on the portable Dormey line of mixers in the early to mid 50s I have never seen a Dormeyer stand mixer in anything but chrome or white They MAY have made them but I haven't seen them, Dormeyers had, I thought, A better motor than Sunbeam, The Sunbeam bowl fit beaters were vastly superior though

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I have a few

and, I really don't need them.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Dormeyer

Haven't seen many of these around as I do Sunbeam. Saw one white and gray stand version with mixer and grinder at a sale about a year ago. Thought about getting it but I have enough.

Was Dormeyer line bought by Waring in later years? Seems I recall a while ago seeing Dormeyers on eBay that looked like relabeled plastic Waring mixers. Could be wrong on that.

 

[kenkart]

Yes Dormeyer WAS bought out by Waring

In my hometown I saw MANY more Dormeyers than anything else I knew of 3 Kitchenaide 2 Sunbeams and PILES of Dormeyers ALL my Aunts and my Mother and one Grandmother had them, My other Grandmother had a Sunbeam Mixmaster Junior which I have now

 

[fan-of-fans]

My grandmother had one too, I never saw it. She used to talk about how the nylon gears stripped out and she couldn't get parts. In later years she had a cheapie hand mixer of the 90s.

My other grandma used to have a Sunbeam 3 speed hand mixer, white color. The kind you push the front in to eject. Maybe that's why I like that version a lot, I have two avocado ones. She replaced hers with a Black and Decker at some point, although it did still work last I knew.

 

[countryguy]

My mom had the grey and white Dormeyer stand mixer. It was the only Dormeyer that I have ever seen. When I was a teenager, my sister and I bought her a Sunbeam stand mixer in yellow. I don't know what happened to the Dormeyer.

Gary