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Anyone looking for the very earliest Maytag parts should consider taking a truck. Maytag has evolved a good deal as a business since it was first founded in 1893 -- as a farm equipment company!

Frederick Louis Maytag moved to Iowa as a youthful farm boy in a covered wagon. He was raised on the farm and as an adult in 1893 he, his two brothers-in-laws and George W. Parsons each put in $600 to start a farm implement business. With this stake of $2400 the company started building farm equipment such as threshing machines, band-cutters and an innovative self-feeder attachment for the threshing machines, invented by one of the founders of the company.

This self-feed attachment was original for its time simply because it was one of the first devices created to make farming safer rather than less difficult. Farming was quite hazardous 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 business to stay afloat during its struggling early years.

By 1902, the new company was the biggest feeder producer 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.

Remarkably, Maytag also manufactured an automobile, the "Maytag-Mason Automobile", for a short amount of time in the early 1900's. And as late as 1916, Maytag Company for a brief time produced farm tractors.

Fred Louis Maytag first began selling top quality home appliances in 1907.

It was first thought that these products would merely relieve the seasonal slumps in the farm equipment business.

The earliest Maytag washer was the 1907 "Pastime" washer. These earliest Maytag washer parts included a wooden tub with a hand crank that turned a dolly on the inside, with wooden pegs, which in turn, pulled clothes through the wash water and against the corrugated tub sides.

Updates on this first washing machine were constant and in 1911 a model with an electric motor was released 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 residences of the time.

To help ease this problem even more, four years later Maytag announced its Multi-Motor gasoline motor 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 sought after by enthusiasts today.

In 1919 Maytag engineers were successful in casting the first all-aluminum washer tub. Quite a few in the trade had been considering this for several years and it had become known as the "The washer that could not be built" because of the difficulties in shaping that large an aluminum piece. Until this time washer tubs were make of wooden slats.

Growth to a nationwide business and world-wide leader rapidly followed and in the 1920's under the management of L. B. Maytag, son of the founder, who served as company president between 1920 and 1926, a new type of washer was introduced that replaced the dolly under the lid with an agitator in the bottom of the tub. This simple design has stood the test of time and is the one still used principally today.

Maytag first introduced this type washer in 1922, and it was a fantastic success. The new washer design put Maytag exclusively into washer manufacturing, prompted the end of farm equipment production and propelled the company to the dominant position in the young laundry appliance industry.

By 1927 the company had produced its first 1000000 washers.

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