To: BluesDuke
Super! ... your taste is cars coincides with your taste in Mixmasters. The beat goes on! &;-)
To: 2Trievers
Super! ... your taste is cars coincides with your taste in Mixmasters.
If you recall the design of the 1950s Mixmasters (Models 10-12), their motor shell trim could have lent to two-tone colouring! (As it was, they offered Models 11 and 12 in white, turquoise, yellow, pink, and chrome.) And if you turned the speed dial of Model 12 up to fourth speed, and spotted the tail fin position on the dial (not to mention the cowled headlight style of the front motor cap), this Mixmaster's profile resembled the 1955-57 Thunderbird!
The Mixmaster from about 1936 forward did have a touch of automotive look in its designing (the grille vents on the front motor caps especially, but later the speed dial tail fins and motor shell trim), but as I learned researching to write that Website I did about the appliance, one of the designers upon whom Sunbeam R and D chief Ivar Jepson called was one Raymond Loewy - better known for automotive design, including the car that was voted the most outstanding auto design of the 20th Century: the Studebaker Starliner.
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