IGNIS 1991-2001... to the grave...and come again!

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Ignis as you know are one of my favourite brand. It was here in Italy a very popular major appliances brand in the 60s when it came out to the market with washing-machine, range, refrigerators...
It has been staying on top for years...but in the 90s something got wrong...This is one of the last "printed" catalogue I've saved of this brand before it became a rarety...no more printed catalgoues have been existing after that...

 

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The first restyling

After years producing washers, among which there was the very famouse TL (Ignis was the first brand introducing on the Italian market the completely automatic TL washer, after twin-tub or other agitating washing machine)...I mean the "infinit" series of model like that that was a very first...

http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/diomede.corso/album?.dir=14dere2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

 

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AWF 637/638

Ignis made the first restyling with those two models showed just in the catalogue above...
637 had only timer control
638 had timer and temperature control
both, halfload+rinshold+on/off push buttons

The link shows some pics took from a friend of mine to her granny's Ignis washing machine...

http://it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/diomede.corso/album?.dir=de61scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//it.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/diomede.corso/my_photos

 

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Philips arrived!

When Philips bought the Ignis brand...even Philips washers started to seem like the one from Ignis invented...
The on on the right had the same interior of the first Ignis...I think the last...in the 80s

Thanks Marco (bewitched) for that!

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But one year later..1992 another change!

This was another "tentative" of not to see Ignis die...but the end was just signed!

Here you are the 1992 catalogue and the model we'r speaking about how was like...

 

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The number change and the black goes away!

The black colour from exterior desapper and the machine became completely white!

PS: the imagine below the triangle does not refer to the model on its left

 

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The chance to choose the dimensions...

I think Ignis was one of the last brand to let you choose the dimensions of your washer...I meand choosing a TL
Here you are the other two dimensions exapmple models... (only one 45 cm wide and one of the series 40 cm wide)

 

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1992 WHIRPOOL!!!

The catalogue rise up to the autumn of the 1991 announcing the arriving here in Italy of the American Brand...

The Whirlpool brand was led from Philips for some years so involved all of its brands among which there was Ignis either!

Here you are a very first Italian Whirlpool major Appliance catalogue!

 

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From Ignis to Whirlpool...

Here you are the TL range of Whirlpool when just arrived here...and guess what!? Have a look to the model 60 cm wide...don't you seem VERY similar to the AWL 394!?!?

From 1992 since Ignis become an UNDER-brand...selling the same Whirlpool product with some few exterior differences but with VERY different prices!?! LOWER!

 

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AWL 394 = AWG 399???

YES! One is Ignis and one is Whirlpool!

 

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2001 THE LAST!

Addio!
With this model people had to say "addio" to one of the best washer ever invented, produced, sold here...

The slogan on to the Ignis model was "Più Grande, Più Bianca, Più richiesta!" (=Bigger,Whiter,most wanted)

In the meanwhile Ignis catalogue disappear from the world's check, becoming available to be consulting only to the retailers!

Here you are the "Whirlpool corresponding" model...on the right (the Ignis had not the grey band onto the control panel)

 

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From the same pages...

I don't know if I did the righ choice...
When in the 2001 we dicided to purchase a new washing machine I browsed just this catalogue...do you suggest that if I love so much a machine like that I would have chose it?!

Mum did not agree with me...so we went for another one...
This one...what about!?

 

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2007 THE COMING BACK!

Just when you think a love is going to the end...here you are a new one come again!

And so here you are the newest IGNIS website (in Italian)....that give to the customers the opportunity to browse a catalogue or at least to take a tour through out the range of products....

Have a look in wash section...Ignis TL washing machine come back again on catalogue...but...what about the 60 cm wide...top loading...horizontal axis...great and wonderful washing machine!?!?!?

It rests only a dream :-D

Home - Ignis

di qualunque dimensione o stile essa sia è il luogo in cui più di ogni altro vogliamo sentirci a nostro agio, protetti e felici…il cuore pulsante di una

www.ignis.it

 

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Here you are!

This is the story of IGNIS brand from 1991 when started his "sunset" (infact is a sunset the logo!), since now through a very unhappy story...the brand sold to the Philips that introduces the Whirlpool brand in Italy in the 1992 and let Ignis become an UNDER-brand since now when it seems to have aquired again its indipendence...whether not in the firm at least in the personality of the brand the same.

GOOD NIGHT
Diomede

 

[foraloysius]

Diomede,

Thank you for sharing all these scans of those brochures. I like those 60cm wide toploaders also. I have never seen them in the Netherlands though. The Ignis toploader I talked about a while ago is way older than the oldest one you posted here. I guess the one I meant is a machine from the sixties.

BTW, that 45cm AWL 002/TW is a Merloni machine by origin. Apparently the small frontloader that Whirlpool sells in the USA is not the first Merloni machine that Whirlpool put it's label on.

Louis

 

[alexj]

My grandmother had an IGNIS

It was front loader though. I remember watching it as a kid. It was a really cool machine. Mid 1970s model, called the "Oblo 12" I believe. It had a brown faux-wood finish on the top and some chrome accents. The timer was really cool too, it was a small circle with a long neck that would point to the program you want to select. It only had one button, to turn it on and off.

Is there any way you could find a picture of it?? I would love to see it again.

 

[toggleswitch]

Love that 40cm (16 inch) horiozontal-axis top-loader.

Those would probably do well in my city due to the compact cabinet size.

 

[foraloysius]

Beats me why Whirlpool doesn't sell these in the USA. After all they sell a rebadged and redesigned Merloni frontloader made in Italy on the American market too, so why not their own European toploader. Perhaps you should write to Whirlpool. Or start your own import company...

 

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so why not their own European toploader. Perhaps you should

CLAP! CLAP!
GREAT Louis...since I've been arriving on this site I'm telling that...I think America market either would appreciate those machine!

THANKS ALL!
Diomede