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Token - Wascator Meka

Token - Wascator (Meka) - obverseToken - Wascator (Meka) - reverse

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Features

Location Sweden
Type Hygiene and wellness tokens › Laundry tokens
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 4.3 g
Diameter 23.7 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
130765

Obverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WASCATOR
MEKA

Reverse

Blank.

Edge

Plain

Mint

Metalvarefabrikken MEKA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Comments

The company Värmelednings AB Calor was founded in Stockholm in 1902. Calor’s primary business interest was the installation of heating systems, but they also produced large, belt-driven washing machines.
The company’s previous brand Wascator (a combination of the words washing and lavatory) was given to a small front-loading washing machine intended for household use at the end of the 1940s. A few years after the success of the first small Wascator washing machine, the entire company adopted the name Wascator. In 1973 the company was acquired by Electrolux and Electrolux- Wascator was formed. The company provides laundry equipment for applications including homes, apartment houses, hotels, health care institutions, industrial laundry operations and coin-operated launderettes.
In the 1990s, Wascator sold rebranded Asko ASEA front loading washing machines and driers under their name. Asko built Wascators have a yellow/black color scheme and a drain valve instead of a drain pump, in comparison to domestic Askos who have a pump and are colored in white or stainless.
In the United States, their products are marketed under the brands Electrolux and Wascomat, by Laundrylux., which has the rights to market and sell the Wascomat and Electrolux brands throughout North America. The largest customers are coin-operated laundries, multi-family laundries, and on-premises laundries.

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