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English translation of above. Notice entirely different voice dubbing narration.

Salut Louis! Your pictures are forever preserved in archives of group. Click on linked thread above (Oldest V-Zug Umimatic) and scroll through. If your computer skills are keen can save photo's on your own hard drive.

There is a method behind the madness of why those small washers are popular with Swiss and Swedes It isn't just fact those living in flats often have limited space, but more to do with strict rules regarding use of communal laundry facilities. Americans and others long used to laundries in...

At least around here and many other larger markets P&G reps routinely pull old shelf stock, and or shops do it themselves and return to distributor or whoever for credit. Discounters and others who do not buy directly from P&G or it's distributors for new product are another matter. Selling...

Louis was kind enough to post snaps he took while visiting V-Zug's museum. There one can see evolution of V-Zug washing machines which reflects overall state of art as well through the years. As mentioned previously top loading washers with central beaters were not totally unknown in Europe...

Trust Louis to uncover fun stuff in Europe: Both commercial and domestic, before fully computer programming took over there were various punched or whatever cards. Hoover's "KeyMatic" wasn't alone on that score. https://automaticwasher.org/threads/old-schulthess-with-keycards.41942/

But I have.... Mostly with P&G made FS products such as Downy and Vernel. Had to rubbish a job lot of Vernel "Rose" scented FS nabbed on eBay at very good price because stuff curdled and separated after sitting about unused. When this happened with bottle of Downy "Free" reached out to P&G CS...

V-Zug adverts are so wonderful. Here you have father, son and brother (at least they all resemble each other a moi). Father is going on about having to take over housekeeping duties while his wife is away on holiday. In particular he's rabbiting on about doing laundry... In reality his son...

Just the thing for someone's "appliance cave". Hahahaha https://hibid.com/lot/250587746/vintage-westinghouse-automatic-clothes-dryer---?ref=lot-list https://hibid.com/lot/250587747/vintage-westinghouse-automatic-clothes-washer---?ref=lot-list

In beautiful avocado! https://hibid.com/lot/250679028/vintage-sears-kenmore-wringer-washer?ref=lot-list

Commercial/industrial laundries cope to some extent with roping of items such as bed linen by using pocket washers/extractors. By breaking down large loads into smaller bits there's less (but not always nil) roping to worry about. Regardless of domestic or commercial and or capacity...

Bottom line is this; it isn't 1990's or even 2000's any longer, putting up a simple GeoCities site just doesn't cut it any longer. Many websites begun 20 or even 10 years ago have closed up. Owner/person starting either retires, has gone onto the other place, or simply no longer wishes to...

What Maytag, Whirlpool and some other American front loader makers did to make such machines more appealing to US households was help to eliminate other chief complaint about h-axis washers, having to stoop or squat down to load or unload machine. You see in Constructa video linked above that...

From this piece one can see why h-axis washing machines took off across Europe post WWII. Can also see how by 1960's or so detergent makers were spending R&D dollars to come up with washing powders that worked with h-axis washers, but also could handle rise of synthetic fabrics and blends...

For space challenged European homes there were small top loading fully automatic or semi h-axis washers. So simple even a husband and do the wash (ducks and runs) These units were often "half" of what would have been a twin tub with separate washer and extractor sides. You have to love...

Wash Day? Just forget it! Hoover hit pay dirt when they finally moved away from twin tubs and launched fully automatic "KeyMatic" washers in UK. Year was 1961, WWII was long since over and British consumers were getting fed up on many fronts. UK housewives and anyone else doing laundry at home...

By 1960's Westinghouse launched a partnership with English Electric which brought the "Liberator" and other models to Britain. https://automaticwasher.org/threads/meet-the-english-electric-fully-automatic-liberator.68845/ English Electric had various semi-automatic washers that were...

Once floodgates were opened and Constructa had plenty of company across Europe, manufacturers were all looking for angles to stimulate demand for their laundry machines. Much of this would play or tug upon regional or whatever associations with a particular country or place. Vendette of...

Across Europe during 1960's onward into 1980's and beyond plenty of housewives and others finally gave up on the old ways (various semi automatic washers) and went with fully automatic machines. Good number of American semi-automatic washers of all sorts from wringers to other things made...

Average American housewife's (or anyone else doing laundry domestically) back then was of a different mindset. Most went from wringer washers to top loaders as it seemed as a natural progression I suppose. Makers of top loaders then also did their bit about how their machines didn't require...