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Finished a string of night shifts and enjoying my first night off on a retro YouTube trip - happened upon a few classic adverts, some I remember back to when I was just 10 years old in 1976!! Amazing how the human brain works - I sometimes forget where I left my car keys but I can sing along...

Hello, hope you are all well despite the times we are in. Was not here for a while - busy with work and getting repairs done to the house eaves, not to mention installing a flue liner for my oil boiler and putting on 14 gallons of paint to a rough cast rendered wall - thank god its all over and...

Hello Mike, Have not been here for a while, busy with work and house painting while the weather is good! Enjoying a time out after the weekend shift and found the above on Youtube - watched it from start to finish! Lovely presentation, and hats off to our predecessors who fought Nazi tyranny...

Our first autowasher in 1972 was an AEG LAvamat Princess-S. It was cold fill only with an unusual design of induction motor, the motor was square in shape, with what looked like 2 separate sets of windings. It was an induction motor which was able to spool up for the spin, no complex...

Hello, the first machine I remember as a kid was a Servis Superheat wringer washer. Mum had it up to late 1972 when the AEG Princess automatic took over, it was passed on to my aunt, a farmer's wife who found it great for mixing powdered milk replacer for young calves. The gearbox seized and Dad...

Bought this off a friend of my wife for just €80 five years ago after we moved house - pretty impressed, gave no trouble in the 5 years we owned it so far. I use the cheap Tesco dishwasher tablets and Tesco rinse aid and have attempted several Bobloads - results always impressed. Pics to follow...

Had a chat recently in the works canteen about life in the '70's. Mum was a great cook and she purchased an ESGE Bamix hand blender back in 1971/1972 - clearly remember it even as a small kid. It was Swiss made, and came with a blue wall mounted stand with mounting posts for the attachments -...

Hello, Enjoying a memory trip tidying up physical and digital pics during the lock-down, came across this pic I took on a visit to London in 2017, of the buildings at 20-22 Bradmore Park Rd, Hammersmith. This was where I worked the summer of 1990 at the Kevlin Service Centre, a large Hoover...

Hello - My name is Peter, I am 53 and live in Limerick, Ireland. I work in factory maintenance but repaired appliances and small engines since I was a teen. My first 'proper' job was at a Nilfisk repair centre where I repaired Nilfisk industrial and domestic vacs & polishers, plus other makes of...