Anyone has info about Miele's W489?

[T5-RSergeant]

I just read a Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue fanfic, and one of the appliances there was a Miele W489, and now i'm wondering: Has anyone more info about this machine? Fredriksam said in 2005 that this machine was sold for a very short time because of a bad bearing design and motors that could overheat, quoted from this topic: http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?4023

'I have told you about that i recycling machines, well, before, we even repaired some of them and sold as used machines. The machine i wanna tell about is the Miele toploader w 489. It was sold in the seventies and Mile pulled it in quite fast.

Now the reason WHY it was pulled in: This machine had a fault in the motor which meant it COULD overheat. As i,ve heard from a source, nothing really happened, but it was enough for Miele to pull it back. Also there was some problems with the bearings also. I myself have seen very few of these machines. Have tried repairing one, but it didnt work out good.'

 

[fredriksam]

Hmm. Yeah that machine i remember. well i think it was made around 1974 - 76. The spin speed was 1000 rpm and it took about 4,5 kg. From what i understand, this machine was sold under another number in germany. Why i dont know. Its also one of the very few miele machines from that area that had only two dials. It had instead 4 buttons beside the dials. Sadly i dont have any pictures of this machine but maybe you can find some on the internet.