Thermostatic shower and bath valves are the standard here. I think no new houses have other valves. They have two knobs, one for the temperature and the other for the amount of water. My previous apartment had one too, so I’m showering with them for 24 years now. I wouldn’t to go back to another...
The American Milky Way is the same as a Mars bar here. Our Milky Way doesn’t have the caramel layer. Our Milky Way is much lighter. In the commercial was said children could it a Milky Way before dinner and it wouldn’t ruin their appetite.
John,
Robert mentioned a 50Hz/220 Volt motor in his first response, so who knows. Nowhere in the ads a spin speed is mentioned so we can only guess about that.
To end the story about the American Frigidaires in the Netherlands, 1960 is the last year the American set is shown in an ad of the...
Sean, directly after above message from me you post a long off topic reply. That’s funny at it’s best. That you don’t see why that made people laugh shows you have no sense of humour.
In 1960 a new machine is introduced, a semi automatic. The name Aline is probably french, so it may be made there too. At the bottom of the ad an automatic washer and dryer is shown. Obviously a Frigidaire set with a Filtrator dryer.
The Frigidaires sold overhere were probably imported from the USA like other American whitegoods.
Frigidaire was especially well known here for their fridges. The Dutch word “koelkast” wasn’t used much. A lot of people used the name Frigidaire (pronounced in French!) for the product, even when...