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More detergents Interesting to see that 1960 kitchen early on in the video, and I have never seen and iron like that before with the removable cord, I wonder if the temperature control is in the connector, it seems very large otherwise. And of course a Philips iron too. I am not sure I would...

Louis It seems that the Evalett uses the pressure of the water to force water out of clothes, the tap valve allows the vessel to first fill up with water (this is not rinsing) and then changing the valve allows the water to drain using the venturiie principle avoiding the need for a pump. I...

New and Useful Products For The Home Includes Philips hand mixer and, at the end, a soluble aspirin product we knew as Disprin

Osby Commercial and Domestic Washers Interesting that they show an Ironrite ironer in the product line up I have never seen one of those devices for stretching sheets and the like before ironing before, it looks rather useful to me

Surf A long established brand in the UK too - the packaging is similar to the UK version of the time too. It has always been sold as a "value" brand in UK. Need to go to approx 7.30 to see machines

Detergent Advert Mid 1960s The washer is a Miele. As far as i am aware Luvil was a pre soak biological detergent

Evalett Washer 1953 Washer with very unusual dryer - its not a spin dryer bu rather uses water pressure to compress the inner "drum" forcing water out of the clothes The washer must be tiny but even so I would be wanting more water than that in the tub, otherwise every surface in the kitchen...

Westinghouse And Death Valley Days Demonstrated by Rosemary De Camp

Rapid Advance Timers Jamie and I are in the somewhat curious position of each having this Miele washer and matching tumble drier and one of the set having the same problem with the rapid advance timer - in my case its the drier, the washer (which features in both videos above) is fine, the...

Congratulations on tracking down a spare part. These machines were sold throughout Europe for quite a few years, I bought a somewhat similar machine myself around 1990, branded Mondia and, like yours the motor was stamped Philco. I hope you get many more years of service from your machine

Gravity Spinner Congratulations of your "new" spinner, I hope you will find it useful, in fact I am pretty sure that you will - I have a White Knight model which is somewhat similar and I would not be without it - as I use vintage machines with slower spin spin speeds, it is great for getting...

Kidde Carbon Monoxide Alarm I recently installed one of these (Kidde unit), not for a gas appliance but in a room where there is a wood burning stove installed. The instructions specifically state that it has a life of 10 years and should be discarded after that time.

Blue Knob Thank you very much for sharing Alan :)

Louis The timer knob was on the left on all UK manufacture machines I think until at least the launch of the Series 90 models in the mid 1980s, I cannot remember if they had the knobs on the left or the right but I am thinking it was the right hand side

Extra 2 There was also a sheet for the Philips AWB080 Variotronic washer which must be from 1978. This marked a flip flop on Philips production. Previously top loading X axis washers (including the one shown above) where manufactured in Halifax, UK and the "conventional" front loader in France...

Extra 1 There were a couple of extra sheets included The first, dated May 1974, for the introduction of permanent magnet motors. 1974 seems to be very late for a top mounted powder dispenser

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I recently purchased a Philips Brochure for the UK from the late 1970s, I am thinking 1977 or 1978. This is part 1[this post was last edited: 1/8/2022-11:38]

Monitor lifted their design from Hoover's 0308 Far be it from me to contradict Laundress but it is much more likely the opposite. There has been a story that Charles Colston (who set up and ran Hoover UK) got the design of the 307 from Eastern Europe designs post WW2 but another says that he...