Neff v AEG v Bosch washer dryer confusion

[sesteve]

Some of you will have heard me prattling on about my mum's old semi integrated built in Neff washer dryer that ousted the Hotpoint 1504 top loader when we had our kitchen fitted in 1979. I have been trying to track down more information on it but to no avail until last night!

My mum and aunty won't forgive me for posting this picture but this is the only one I can find that shows the machine in the bottom right corner. You can see the two control knobs, indicator lights and push buttons.

 

[sesteve]

Anyway, while browsing eBay last night as you do I noticed this advert for an AEG Lavamat Regina 2003 and its identical with the exception that hers had a decor panel that fitted to the door

 

[sesteve]

I didn't know that AEG and Neff must have had a tie up before the days of Bosch but I managed to find a copy of the user instructions for the Regina and they are just as I remember for the Neff even down to the clip for holding the drain hose in place.

What's more confusing is that Rob (Triumphtoledo) posted a picture showing the programme guide attached to the door of his Bosch V696 machine and this is spookily similar to that of the Neff. Perhaps his machine is after the Bosch tie up with Neff and they copied the design but I'd be interested to find out more if anyone can shed some light on this. I'll have to have a dig about next time I go home to see if the old instructions are lying about or there is a receipt for the kitchen with the model no of the Neff but at least it's all a bit clearer for me than it was!

Steve $

 

[matchboxpaul]

ta da!

Would this be the blighter, Steve?

Will try and find the model number via Which magazines, but currently its a mystery.

Hope this is the one and the advert is courtesy of one of Mike King's Good Housekeeping magazines.

Cheers
paul

 

[sesteve]

You can rely on Paul

That's the one! Well done. We had a serrated grapefruit knife that I used to push into the outer interlock - the round white thing in the top right hand side so I could watch it with the outer door open and sometimes I'd open the inner door too and push the black button to see it spin - naughty. If you opened the soap dispenser it also had an interlock that would stop it filling.

It used to take ages as it was cold fill and it did a cool down rinse where it would fill and empty for short periods and then do 5 further rinses before the final 1000rpm spin. If you pressed the V button it would do a variomatic spin where it would do increasingly longer spin bursts and this was the way to get it in to go straight to the drying programme.

I did read last night that Zanker may have had something to do with these machines as well but it seems a bit complicated. Anyway, I guess the styling went with the perms.....

Steve

 

[hooverzanmiele]

AEG Vs Neff

Sesteve,

When I was at college, the girls floor of the college, as they were split, for obvious reasons, before we had the appliances upgraded to Zanussi's, while the boys units sported Ariston Margherita 1000 AutoWasher AL10's, the girls floor had a Neff Washer Dryer.

When they had the appliances upgraded, the Neff was dismantled, it didn't work very well apparently, but when they dismantled the machine, they gave me the two control knob rings with the programme & drying times printed on them, & the programme chart, which was, originally, like the pic you posted of the programme chart, Steve.

I don't remember much of the machine, but I remember the control knob part of the fascia & the décor door, It was a sing open décor door, not a drop down one, but I can only assume it's like the one in the pic in Paul's reply (#3), except with a décor door, not a drop down.

When I find the knob rings, I'll photo them for you, Steve, I know that the Neff that the Girls floor had, had the knobs behind a window, like on the Bosch WFT6030.

 

[hooverzanmiele]

Neff Washer Dryer

Steve,

Just found an example of it, it looks exactly like TriumphToledo's Bosch V696.

CJ

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