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Drying out the octaganal tub Final photo of after care after washing today in my Empresss ,final stage is wiping everything down and drying out the tub.Every month a touch of grease is applied at the top of the gyrator cube block and driving post.Also a touch of grease on the bottom base of...

draining water out of tub Draining the waste soapy water out of the tub via the emptying hose and down the sink it goes

Emprying the large Octaganal tub Emprtying the large octaganal tub with beige old original emprtying hose and filling grey hose visble in tub. pump working away merrily with that distictive soumd from the pump.

Time to empty that octaganal tub with my camera acting the fool all the pics have gone of washing and putting through the wringer so here we are just about to start to emprty that big octaganal tub with wringer swung over the sink.

Washing 7 loads the old fashioned way Here we are washing away and trying to conserve that heat in the tub , with this old Early Empress no heater is fitted so keeping the large tub lid on helps keep that water temprature hot.

WASH DAY IN THE EMPRESS Thought i would take some more photos of the Empress in operation firt getting that tub full of soapy suds persil heaven.Bedding sheets in that great large octaganal tub no problam at all .

HOTPOINT EMPRESS Hi Kev glad you got your Empress back up and running great stuff is your Empress late fifties i seem to remember reading a thread about your machine. Would be great if you could take some photos of the back of the machine showing the gearbox moter and pump set up .you may...

Many thanks keith for posting your machine looks in great nick does it have the later moter in yours with bakelite plastic and alloy pump and moter at back with relay. Also i checked up on the net on the British thomson Houston company my what a history theygo back to late 1880s and hotpoint...

Hi thanks so far for the the comments, glad you like the photos i checked on the AC moter and i had to use a magnifying glass it looked to me like 1955 not 1957 maybe one of the experts will know the year of my machine, with the E7 stamped on the gearbox. I know its definately not late...

hotpoint early empress After reading back the first intro part seems i dont know my left from my right so the chrome lever bar on the early Empress is on the right hand side not left as you all probably no . The small curved shaped chrome lever on left operates the forward and reverse on the...

hotpoint early empress Here is a shot of the inside of the large octaganal tub with water droplets on black gyrator from a previous wash not so long ago . Even with drying out the whole tub some water from the rubber tub lid seal escaped. I would like to thank Lance for is constant support...

Final photo of Early Hotpoint Empress Simply looking at the machine with early chrome lever bar on wringer

hotpoint early empress with the photo of the inside of the Empress metal cupboard and pump lever connecting rod and modified T piece here is the back of machine panel with the brass nut which is simply screwed off which releases the water out of the pump. You can see this by looking at the...

more photo of early Hotpoint Empress Here is another photo shot of my early Empress this time taken from inside the lower metal cupboard showing a modified copper pipe T piece far back middle . The original rubber hose which is like a T shape rubber pipe takes the remaining water empties out...

More early Hotpoint Empress Here is a further photo of the right hand side back of the more visible gearbox and pump lower down. i do not know how to get more than one photo in each post, please can please someone advice and let me know or please alter it if required. thanks Andrew