KC, when my Dad moved us from the house in town to a big farm house in the country, in 1944 it t’was, I remember my Mother using a gasoline powered Maytag washing machine that looked like this one, to wit:
As you can see via the picture, it had a “kick” start (
actually a “stomp” start) …… and it would go …. “
Ker Chug, …. Ker Chug” …… and the “blue” smoke would “puff” out of the end of the exhaust hose.
As one can surmise, …… clothe washing had to be done on the back porch in the “open” air.