Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 -=> Quoting Tom Walker to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 >> Sears uses model numbers consisting of some digits,  a period,

 TW> And they Change vendors endlessly for some products. The Washing
 TW> Machines though have for a long time been RCA Whorlpool manfacturered.
 TW> OF course Sears is a part owner of the company!!!  :-)  :-)

 JN>  RCA is owned by the French...can't pronounce or spell the name. 

I thought they were bought out by GE a while back,  no?

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