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I have a small stack of sales flyers for Hotpoint sets around 56-57. The little 9" set I have from the late 50s is the Hotpoint version. The oldest Hotpoint in my collection is a waffle iron that must date from the early 20s-still makes a good waffle! Someone, maybe on another site, said Hotpoint was once a totally seperate company but I don't think that is correct...seems my waffle iron mentions GE on the bottom. The name apparently comes from an early line of electric irons that bested the competition because the heating element was specially designed. The "point" at the front of the iron was thus "hot".
When I shopped for an new range at the local GE dealer a few years back I noticed one distinct difference between the Hotpoint and GE versions: the former were made in Mexico while the latter were still built in the US.
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Bryan
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