3-534: Speed Queen is a laundry machine manufacturer headquartered in Ripon , Wisconsin , United States . Speed Queen is a subsidiary of Alliance Laundry Systems LLC, which billed itself as the world's largest manufacturer of commercial laundry equipment as of 2004. Speed Queen makes a large variety of residential and commercial products, from 25-pound (11 kg)-capacity tumblers to 250-pound (110 kg) washer-extractors, as well as dryers. Its commercial machines are
6-447: A popular brand for laundromats , apartment buildings, and hotels . The company was founded in 1908 by Joe Barlow and John Seelig as Barlow & Seelig Manufacturing. They got their start by taking existing machine designs and improving them. In 1922, Speed Queen was the first company to introduce washers with nickel-copper tubs. The brand name "Speed Queen" was created in 1928. During World War II , it switched production to support
9-537: The war effort, manufacturing 20 mm shells , and parts for airplanes, tanks and guns. Later, it was sold to McGraw-Edison Company (which also owned Eskimo fans and Toastmaster ), and then to Raytheon , in 1979. In 1998, Raytheon Commercial Laundry sold the brand to Alliance Laundry Systems. Speed Queen Ireland provides cheap and easy self-service laundrettes around the Republic of Ireland Laundry machine Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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