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Old news He's done nothing illegal - there are only moral issues of betraying his partner, in this case a wife who happens to have cancer. Provided the media jumps on every other politician who has an affair, I don't have a problem. However, I'm sure they've set out to tarnish his reputation...

What a fun day! I'm so glad to see that the Bendix has gone to a good home. It will have many a long year ahead of it fraternising with all manner of equally delightful machines.

Smiles and frowns ... I grinned when I saw the first picture - the Bendix. My mum had a single-dial model (no temperature selector) from about 1981. I frowned (like many others) when I saw all the dead Bosching machines ... because the model mum replaced her poor dear unable-to-repair Bendix...

Happy Birthday, Robert Hi Robert, It's late, but Happy Birthday nonetheless. I hope your partner, family and friends have given you even half as much joy today as you've given me and many others through the work you've done on this site. Best wishes, Nick

Here are my shots from last year ... I thought it was quite an amazing machine too/ http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?24114

So we're getting a Costco store ... is this a good thing or a bad thing? http://www.smh.com.au/business/us-superstore-gets-goahead-for-sydney-20100415-sg9v.html

Bendix Door Lever Kevin, You're right in saying the lever operates the door latch. On the one we had, it worked in either direction, mechanically lifting the latch to release the door tongue. There was also a small button on top of the chrome, above the latch knob, which I don't see on this...

Fascinating ... The Bendix washer is similar to, but not the same as, the one I grew up with. The timer and water miser dials on ours were covered over so that only the front 120 degress of arc was visible, whereas the entire surface of the dials is visible on this machine. The glass on the...

Will there be videos? I'm hoping we'll see more of this machine. Like others here, I find anything done on an industrial scale fascinating.

Edna on the map Hi Jon, Edna was well and truly on the map by the time these ads came out. She was (is) very well known for her double-entendres and these are part of what puts the Enda stamp on the Whirlpool ads. Her first appearances were in the early '60's on TV and university review...

Aussie Dryers Yes, that's the size we tended to have and can still get now. Note that that one is mounted next to a cupboard, which is making it look much smaller than it really is. If we have a house, we tend to dry our clothes outside on a clothes line. Even our larger dryers are nowhere...

That's heartening to hear ... Our wool industry was huge. It's good to know we can sell more than just the wool.

... and in case you want to know more, here is some Australian manufacturing history. As in the USA, we had an innovative and successful manufacturing industry which is now just a memory. http://www.hills.com.au/arbitrage/pages/48

An Aussie Icon has a birthday today. It's not exactly automatic, but it is a clothes dryer The Hills Hoist was patented on 22 March 1956. http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/ex_hoist.shtml

Resets with IE8 on Win7 Hi Robert, I'm sure it was working fine when you first released this feature, but in the last couple of days I've noticed everything getting reset to "wash" when I restart my browser. All looks fine during the session, but it's all "unread" again when you exit and...

Seems the closest are half way around the world ... I'm in Mascot, Sydney, Australia. Perhaps a 10 minute drive (in heavy traffic!) from Jon (intuitive) in Marrickville.

Purchasing Power So if the minimum wage was $1.00 in 1956, that helps put a lot of the pricing we see on some of the POD shots into perspective. Some (most?) of the washing machines are more than $100 (more than two week's wages, before taxes are taken into consideration). Vaccum cleaner...

And likewise in Oz ... Much the same thing happened with our manufacturing industries, starting in the mid-'80s. People don't think about the consequences of buying the cheaper/est product. They only see that they can have more toys per dollar. Then when they lose their jobs, they wonder why...

How those memories flood back ... ... but not in a bad way. Chris: I remember the silver two-dial model. Family friends had that in the early 70s. Mine was the later model with the brown fascia. Dial on the right, orange pilot light and power button on the left of the door handle. Well, door...

Have I missed the point? If I'm interested, I look at the timestamp of the first entry in a long thread to see how old the thread is. Otherwise, each entry follows its chronological predecessor. Likewise, the thread with the most recent update is at the top of the forum list. What difference...