Do any of you old timers remember the model name of the original Moen single handle kitchen faucet?

[JMEDGAR]

I used to know this, but I simply cannot remember it. Also, what year did it first appear, if you know.

 

[Onokai]

I grew up with Moen
heres the story-its started before my time on this planet-moen started in 1937

http://www.moen.com/about-moen/the-moen-story

https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/moen-ravenna-1956-catalog-20b-22b-23b.98693/

 

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[JMEDGAR]

I grew up with Moen
heres the story-its started before my time on this planet-moen started in 1937

http://www.moen.com/about-moen/the-moen-story

Thanks for the link.

Yes. I read the official Moen history, but it does not mention the model name of the first faucet manufactured in 1947. Ugly thing though it was, it started a revolution in faucet design.

 

[hj]

I am not sure that the earliest ones even had a "name", just numbers. Originally, they had several models which had different cores. It was only after they came up with the Dial-Cet tub valve that they used the current 1200, then the 1225, cartridges. "Ugly" is in the eyes of the beholder. The faucet on the GE/Hotpoint all in one sinks used the earliest core style.

 

[JMEDGAR]

I am not sure that the earliest ones even had a "name", just numbers. Originally, they had several models which had different cores. It was only after they came up with the Dial-Cet tub valve that they used the current 1200, then the 1225, cartridges. "Ugly" is in the eyes of the beholder. The faucet on the GE/Hotpoint all in one sinks used the earliest core style.

I think you are right about the cartridges. They always had model or component numbers. But, I'm asking about the faucet itself. It may be that it never had a model name, and my fuzzy recollection of seeing one is wrong, but it seems to me that early in the 1950s they were being advertised as the "Revolutionary <something> single handle faucet from Moen"