AyUp Lads! Vintage Acme Spinner

[launderess]

It's someone's birthday!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3640977627...T8ar7GNavKY+R3eUQHFKa|tkp:Bk9SR_iXy-CuYQ[this post was last edited: 1/3/2023-01:23]

 

[foraloysius]

I had one of those! Had to give it up when I moved. These are indeed very heavy.

There is something at the bottom that doesn’t belong there. A piece of vynil?

 

[launderess]

"There is something at the bottom that doesn’t belong there"

No, it doesn't. Wonder what that bit is and why someone placed it there in first place.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/164493667/vintage-english-acme-spin-dryer-clothes

If same company, Acme was famous for their mangles (wringers). So it seems they may have saw which way wind was blowing and came out with spin driers.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1...h-magazine-print-advertisement-167300509.html

Dryers too apparently..

 

[vacbear58]

This has been on ebay for ages, if it were not such mad price.

I would suggest that the vinyl is a substitute for a spinner mat.

There was also at least one Acme twin tub in the early to mid 1960s

 

[foraloysius]

Yes, that's correct. The twin tub was shown in the Dutch brochure I posted in this thread.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82352