1967 mail order cat photos
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I love the look of those. Just wish I had a currency converter to see how much they were. Notice it was before everyone else in the world but us went metric on the gallons and watts.
cornutt
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The bit that interests me is seeing the prices stated in pounds, shillings, pence. I've not seen much material like that from before Great Britian decimalized its currency.
paulinroyton
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Brochures
Thank you for posting these brochure s. I can't stop looking at the vintage items. More please.
Thank you for posting these brochure s. I can't stop looking at the vintage items. More please.
Catalogues
Its always good to see stuff like this, although in all honesty it the last page that has the unseen stuff. Surprisingly the prices seem fairly close to the retail prices - very often despite the catalogue company's purchasing power prices were hiked up so they could offer "interest free terms" (buying over time) but the higher price reflected that interest instead.
I sometimes wonder if catalogue shopping is as popular now as it once was with credit cards freely available - time was folks would buy stuff and they pay it off to the local agent weekly. In my native Northern Ireland these were known as "club books".
The Hotpoint and English Electrics are largely identical although where the Hotpoint has an Easy style agitator and a GE style filter pan the EE has the earlier Hotpoint style agitator with a brush style filter - in bright red I might add. The Countess would have had a similar agitator to the GE - although you would have thought that the market for wringer washers would have been all but dead in 1967 the Countess would soldier on for another five or six years as did the larger Empress (which had been around since before WW2) and the Servis Compact. The Hoover went on longer than all of them still although it was a much simpler machine so I suppose manufacturing costs less.
The EE auto washer shows its Westinghouse origins - would love to get one of these but, well who knows when one might emerge. I have the matching Dryer and know of a couple more so the washer must be out there somewhere.
In 1959 US readers may remember the Hoover Holiday on which the Hoover Cylinder was based. When the Constellation was introduced (and I am surprised not to see one here) the Cylinder was substantially "de-featured" although there was not a lot of difference in the price of the two cleaners. The Cylinder would carry on much the same, with only detail and colour changes, until 1972 or so. The Dustette was not much different from the machine introduced in 1933! US readers will know it as the Pixie I believe.
The last page is interesting as it displays items I have not seen before. The dryer is somewhat similar to a model that had been around at least 10 years of so by how - the Flatley dryer - but the washer looks the most basic type - I would thing it would have a bottom mount pulsator and gravity drain I did wonder if it might not even had an inner tub but the moulding around the top indicates that it might have done. Never seen the spin dryer before at all.
More pictures would be good Anthony!
Al
Its always good to see stuff like this, although in all honesty it the last page that has the unseen stuff. Surprisingly the prices seem fairly close to the retail prices - very often despite the catalogue company's purchasing power prices were hiked up so they could offer "interest free terms" (buying over time) but the higher price reflected that interest instead.
I sometimes wonder if catalogue shopping is as popular now as it once was with credit cards freely available - time was folks would buy stuff and they pay it off to the local agent weekly. In my native Northern Ireland these were known as "club books".
The Hotpoint and English Electrics are largely identical although where the Hotpoint has an Easy style agitator and a GE style filter pan the EE has the earlier Hotpoint style agitator with a brush style filter - in bright red I might add. The Countess would have had a similar agitator to the GE - although you would have thought that the market for wringer washers would have been all but dead in 1967 the Countess would soldier on for another five or six years as did the larger Empress (which had been around since before WW2) and the Servis Compact. The Hoover went on longer than all of them still although it was a much simpler machine so I suppose manufacturing costs less.
The EE auto washer shows its Westinghouse origins - would love to get one of these but, well who knows when one might emerge. I have the matching Dryer and know of a couple more so the washer must be out there somewhere.
In 1959 US readers may remember the Hoover Holiday on which the Hoover Cylinder was based. When the Constellation was introduced (and I am surprised not to see one here) the Cylinder was substantially "de-featured" although there was not a lot of difference in the price of the two cleaners. The Cylinder would carry on much the same, with only detail and colour changes, until 1972 or so. The Dustette was not much different from the machine introduced in 1933! US readers will know it as the Pixie I believe.
The last page is interesting as it displays items I have not seen before. The dryer is somewhat similar to a model that had been around at least 10 years of so by how - the Flatley dryer - but the washer looks the most basic type - I would thing it would have a bottom mount pulsator and gravity drain I did wonder if it might not even had an inner tub but the moulding around the top indicates that it might have done. Never seen the spin dryer before at all.
More pictures would be good Anthony!
Al
Last page
On the last page I've got a yellow example of the spin dryer "A ". it's German no safety features. Switch on and after a very silent age it's spinning furiously switch off and press the foot brake the lid is kept closed by pure suction I wonder how many injuries it caused as it spins very fast. Probably releases asbestos too as you press brake in your kitten heels !! Mine has slightly perished rubber feet causing it to vibrate around the kitchen piddling water all over if you didn't watch it. But an advance to a mangle for a lot of folks back then. And yes built like a tank !!
On the last page I've got a yellow example of the spin dryer "A ". it's German no safety features. Switch on and after a very silent age it's spinning furiously switch off and press the foot brake the lid is kept closed by pure suction I wonder how many injuries it caused as it spins very fast. Probably releases asbestos too as you press brake in your kitten heels !! Mine has slightly perished rubber feet causing it to vibrate around the kitchen piddling water all over if you didn't watch it. But an advance to a mangle for a lot of folks back then. And yes built like a tank !!
the little washing machine in the last post
what you cant really appreciate from the picture is how small this machine is i know this because my aunt had one she lived in a small flat when i was a boy and this small machine is all she had room for .The machine was gravity drain simply let the hose down into a bucket .In the bottom was a pulsator similar to that in a Hoover twin tub or to be more accurate the same as the one found in a Rolls and it was driven by a small motor as used in the Frigidaire spin dryer and was connected to the pulsator by a belt and pulley .The machine is about the same height as the spin dryer in the same picture with a slightly bigger diameter [picture a burco boiler with a wringer on and there you have it] .There was no switch simply pull the plug to stop the thing .The wringer came off and could be stored inside the machine although i cant imagine that doing the vitreous enamel much good .Now for the shock horror i can remember this machine being plugged into the light fitting [wasnt everything in those days] because there wasnt a socket so it would not have been earthed .the washer was replaced sometime in the late 70s with an automatic machine but that wasnt the end of it i can remember seeing it in 2002 when my aunt died im not sure what happened to it after that [i should have grabbed it then when i had the chance] I did find some more vac pics but i put those on the other site
regards Anthony
what you cant really appreciate from the picture is how small this machine is i know this because my aunt had one she lived in a small flat when i was a boy and this small machine is all she had room for .The machine was gravity drain simply let the hose down into a bucket .In the bottom was a pulsator similar to that in a Hoover twin tub or to be more accurate the same as the one found in a Rolls and it was driven by a small motor as used in the Frigidaire spin dryer and was connected to the pulsator by a belt and pulley .The machine is about the same height as the spin dryer in the same picture with a slightly bigger diameter [picture a burco boiler with a wringer on and there you have it] .There was no switch simply pull the plug to stop the thing .The wringer came off and could be stored inside the machine although i cant imagine that doing the vitreous enamel much good .Now for the shock horror i can remember this machine being plugged into the light fitting [wasnt everything in those days] because there wasnt a socket so it would not have been earthed .the washer was replaced sometime in the late 70s with an automatic machine but that wasnt the end of it i can remember seeing it in 2002 when my aunt died im not sure what happened to it after that [i should have grabbed it then when i had the chance] I did find some more vac pics but i put those on the other site
regards Anthony
triumphdolomite
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Frigidaire & EE
Some great pictures you've got there. I'd say that the EE machines were around 1966 when the Liberator Twin was introduced and I've an advert for the Liberator Automatic from the same era, I think it's the one with the advertising record featuring Denis Norden.
Looking at the Frigidaire I'd like to bet that this was a 'badge engineered' Philips Top Twin, the spin can certainly looks identical.
Ian
Some great pictures you've got there. I'd say that the EE machines were around 1966 when the Liberator Twin was introduced and I've an advert for the Liberator Automatic from the same era, I think it's the one with the advertising record featuring Denis Norden.
Looking at the Frigidaire I'd like to bet that this was a 'badge engineered' Philips Top Twin, the spin can certainly looks identical.
Ian
