Frigidaire Parts

In 1916, the Guardian Frigerator Company was organized in Fort Wayne, Indiana, by Alfred Mellowes and a group of investors to manufacture a refrigerator Mellowes had constructed just a year earlier while working in a backyard wash house.  The refrigerator differed from other contemporary models because it was self-contained with the compressor located in the bottom of the cabinet.

In 1918, W.C. Durant, then president of General Motors, privately purchased the company and a new name, Frigidaire, was coined.

Frigidaire made rapid progress.  Technological innovations and production efficiencies allowed Frigidaire to sell more than one million refrigerators from 1919 to 1929.

Frigidaire's growth continued to accelerate in the 1930's in spite of the Great Depression.  On the eve of World War II, Frigidaire boasted the world's largest refrigerator plant and over 20,000 employees in the United State and abroad.  In the 1950's Frigidaire continue to set the pace for the appliance industry introducing automatic ice makers and auto defrost refrigerators.  After its acquisition by WCI (White Consolidated Industries) in 1979, Frigidaire was promoted as a reliable brand with the slogan "Here today, here tomorrow".

In 1986 WCI was acquired by Sweden's AB Electrolux.  In 1991 Frigidaire regained the spotlight when Electrolux made the Ohio based company the leader of a family of brands that included Tappan, Gibson, Kelvinator, White-Westinghouse, and Euroflair.  A new slogan, "Frigidaire Company . . . .creating a better tomorrow!", was adopted.

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