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Link below to one a series of superb Italian adverts for the CASTOR Drymatic (also sold in the UK) and the new CASTOR Queenmatic ...

.... but by March 30th 1964, the AUTOMASTER had morphed into something visually a lot more basic. Somewhere in March, looks like they settled on getting into bed with CASTOR and started to sell a version of the CASTOR Queenmatic instead ....

March 2nd 1964 and Duomatic were staring to advertise their automatic offering, in the form of the 'AUTOMASTER'. I state the date cause here we have a machine which I think is derived from a san Giorgio model ...

Back to the 1960s .... and a bit of Duomatic action, in the form of the 'AUTOQUEEN' from 1964 ....

Hi Austin. Sorry for delay - I would presume so, re your machine being from Comet. I have been trying to figure out the Indesit original Omega series and its proving a tad confusing, with some sources saying exclusive to this shop or that store, then I stumble across the same model seemingly...

Hi Nick. Great news that a Servis Mk82 has surfaced and your example looks in fine visual fettle. Really hope you succeed in getting it working properly again - fingers crossed. Please keep us updated with how it goes. Regards Paul

Thanks for the feedback Louis. The ComputerWash models are something that I never saw either. Perhaps they were like the Zanussi Input Systems and were quite simply rarer than hens teeth to find in the shops. Hi Austin. I don't have any brochures for the Indesit Omega sadly. They look to have...

Yep - Valerie is rather careless! lol.

and finally from me .... .... not a UK built model, but one sold in the UK and probably in very small numbers. Is anybody able to confirm that 'Italy's leading manufacturer' will have been Candy? If not Candy, who was it and what brand this machine was sold as? Regards Paul

Prior to the Colston clones being introduced, below are some of the earlier Electricity Board exclusives: ELITE Twin Tub (Philips) EASEELEC De Luxe (???) EASEELEC Standard (Rolls) MIDELEC (Easiclene) SWEB De Luxe (Frigidaire) SWEB Standard (Rolls) MANWEB Brand Twin Tub (Rolls) I am also...

Hi all. This penultimate batch are actually pretty boring, particularly with them being black and white drawings essentially, but I post them to show something that I hadn't realised. It is really surprising to me that more Colston and Ariston style twin tubs haven't surfaced over the years...

Something rather rare for my 5,000th post! INDESIT - for years the builders of affordable and reliable automatics, if a little bit primitive perhaps and usually slow spinning, got advanced all of a sudden around 1983. Before the delivery of a 1983 Ideal Home guide to kitchen design, I never...

Really frustrating that when uploaded, the images degrade. I promise you that, although photographs, the master images are completely legible. When the new way of uploading images was introduced a few years ago, the ability to upload good quality, big images was removed (unless I am missing...

Thankyou Alan, for sharing the Model 300 brochure. The kitchen that I first remember seeing my aunt and uncles Model 200 and 300 in (pre the move to the aubergine kitchen house), had very similar kitchen units to the ones on page 2 of the brochure. Just brings those memories flooding back :-)...

Hi Mike. re the black switches on early machines - purely conjecture on my part, though based on never having seen any other images of a Mk72 with black switches. The machines in the brochure also have slightly different fascias to every other Mk72 and Mk75 that I have seen in photographs -...

Hi James. Looks like a thorough job is being done - best of luck with the restoration. As with Austin, am eager to see the finished article. Roll on the unveil. Paul

Hi Ivan. Welcome to the forum! many thanks for posting the Kenwood dishwasher brochure - and what a great brochure! A couple of years ago I was driving to work, which involves driving behind a branch of pretty much our last national, store based electrical retailiers (Currys) and thought I...

Attached below is the dishwasher report from Ideal Home magazine in 1978. Contains a bit of info on the reintroduced Swanmaid De Luxe, which I retype below in case its illegible on the page: 'It has been on the UK market since the early fifties, disappeared briefly and has now come back (by...

Thanks Chris for posting the info on the Swanmaid products - really has stirred memories of the machines that I had contact with in my youth. I have attached a colour image of the Swanmaid Select, which looks to almost be an older de Luxe model, but with a 'modern' dishwasher frontage grafted...

Hi all. We had two Swanmaid De Luxe's in my family, but they were an earlier version with a round metal 'on' button - would presume 1960s machines. Thinking about it, one of the couples got married in 1969 and more than likely had it bought them as a wedding present, along with their Hoover...