Bendix Autodrier De Luxe 7448

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Gary.

Hey ho - we cant save everything, no matter how much we'd all love to.

But yes, if a matching washer were to come in - do drop me a line!

Thanks for all your help - it is really appreciated.
Regards
paul
p.s below is model 7123 Autowasher 500

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Mathew.

Yesterday evenings testing was completed on both the dryer and the other machine very satisfactorily.

Testing and tidying commenced on yesterdays acquisition, this afternoon.
Once we repair the inevitably cracked door release grab, this machine will for its age look pretty darn good.

Will set up threads over the coming days.

Hope all is well down in Cardiff and see you next month.

Paul
p.s below is model 7124 Autowasher 800 - note the two different door handle styles.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Louis.

thanks for the comment.

Jnow what you mean about the Fan Only setting.

v - unusual option.
paul
p.s belwo is model 7126 Autowasher 800. Do people know whether Bendix did a Hotpoint with their machines and, generally, updated them each year or so and giving them a new model number?

 

[matchboxpaul]

Finally for tonight....

is model 7133 Autowasher Electronic.

I assume that this was an 800rpm machine?

ta ta for now.
Paul

 

[dubstar85]

Well, my friend had the six button, two dial machine. Exactly like the photo you nicked. The timer knob was pretty much not a knob, but a program progress display. The machine had a start button that advanced the timer. Must have been a pain in the bum if you never really use the pre wash! You can see that the knob is different from the rest. I can't remember if you couldn't move it manually or if its just to make it look that way so you don't move it while its on.

The dryer if I recall correctly had the same kinda thing going on with the temperature knob. Obviously you could turn that knob.

My friends parents got the machines in 1982/83 I believe. I'm sure they got them as wedding presents and they had my friend in 1984. I could be wrong however so you could be right Paul! Maybe the 'TOL' model was only sold with the 7168 or maybe it could have been an exclusive. Doubt it though!

The 7133 is an 800rpm machine. The manual is on my old favourite, the service force website. All the Benidix machine are under "TDA" when you search by manufacturer.

I've attached the manual for my all time favourite Bendix... the 7168

David

http://www.serviceforce.co.uk/pdfs/U01483.pdf

 

[paulinroyton]

Bendix

Hi Guys.

Nice photos. I am trying to find a Bendix washer my Aunty had in the early 1970 - 1980 ish. It was a quite tall machine, same size as Bendix home laundry centre. It had 1 control to the right of the machine, which was to set the programmes, ie, programme 1,2,3,4,5, ect, and then she would have to hold in a start button to it came to wash section and how many mins to wash. It had a number of red light, wash, rinse, spin. The soap dispenser was on the top of the machine and had a large metal loading door. It had a dreain screen at the bottom, and she would forget to empty this sometimes. The progress indication would rotate, and was behind a glass screen.
She had this machine for many years. I think she had to have it bolted down.

Regards

Paul

 

[servisslimline]

aquarius1984

aquarius1984: would you like me to make a thread on my bendix that matches the dryer you have, so you can see what you are going to get in the future? GO BENDIX!!!

 

[servisslimline]

ps

matchboxpaul: can you remember the episode of ever decreasing circles so that i can find it on youtube

 

[newwave1]

Ahh bendix washers. Fond memories. My grandma had a 1000rpm in white model with the two dials which is very reminisent of the bosch WFF2000 i have in my shed. Programme selector and progress mechanical dial! I've attached a piccie below. It was a wonderful machine. She'd always have it waiting for me after school and on weekends bless her.

Darren

 

[newwave1]

Full view! Beautiful machine!

D

 

[matchboxpaul]

How do David.

The six button,twin dial machine.....indeed the 7168. The absolute ideal find! I am gutted about the one that ws on ebay about 6 months ago - why did it have to be in london. grrrrr.

The picture with all the facias is fantastic, but unfortunately a little small.

It came from the VADS website, linked below....

Core Record
Title Kenneth Grange at the Boilerhouse
Collection Design Council Slide Collection
Manufacturer Bendix (Firm)
Exhibition Organiser Conran Foundation
Designer Grange, Kenneth
Exhibition Designer Hillman, David
Exhibition Organiser Victoria & Albert Museum
Date 1980 (ca)-1983
Description Display on washing machines designed by Kenneth Grange for Bendix, c. 1980, in the 'Kenneth Grange at the Boilerhouse' exhibition at the Conran Foundation's Boilerhouse Project, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1983.
Location Creation Site London
Subject industrial design, appliances, exhibitions, washing machines

The site has a number of appliance piccies - for those who havent discovered it, type in the likes of 'washing' 'bendix' 'hotpoint' etc and find some wonderful stuff.

Cheers
paul
p.s I make no apologies for posting the piccy again.

http://www.vads.ac.uk/index.php

 

[matchboxpaul]

HI Paul

Cant help you with your aunts Bendix, I am afraid.
I have had a quick gander through the pictures i have of older bendix machines and the bolt downs and none jump out at me as matching your description.

They seemed to do so many different versions - maybe someone else has a piccy of it.

fingers crossed
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Philip.

Would love to see a piccy of your machine so be great for you to set up a thread about it.

I havent, to the best of my knowledge, seen a 7128 before so I am really intrigued to know what one is.

I am afraid I cant remembre the specific episode of Ever Decreasing Circles. I dont think they had episode titles - the programme was just on, around 7pm, BBC1, maybe on a Monday (clutching at straws with the last snippets of info).

I will have a quick look myself tonight - miracles do happen! I stumbled across a snippet of a Hinge and Brackett episode, where they have some fun with a washing machine. I was about 5 years old and was shouted downstairs and lifted over the baby gate at the bottom, by my mum, and plonked in front of the telly.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

here is the Hinge and Brackett snippet...scroll through to 4minutes 33seconds.

enjoy
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Totally agree Darren.

They are smart looking machines.

Have posted a piccy of the 7148 Autowasher Electronic below would be the first version of the machine, pictures of which you posted Darren (yours was a 71258).

cheers
paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

and finally, the replacement for the 7148.....the 7168, from circa 1986.

Cant really see any difference to be honest. Any ideas?
This is the final piccy I have of the four digit 71xx's.

To see any others would be great.
regards
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

told a porky.....found this.

Its part of a full facia piccy of the 7148/7168, which shows the programmer and timedisc.

Paul

 

[westingman123]

I never see a Bendix but I think of the wonderful Jean Kerr.
I suppose they were more of an east coast brand, as I have no
recollection of them in my early midwest memories, but "ain't"
they pretty!

 

[paulinroyton]

Hi Paul, (Matchboxpaul), Think my Aunty had it on a wooden floor at first, then they moved and washer was on a concretre floor. Would love to see a photo of this machine again, it was fab.

Regards

Paul

 

[paulinroyton]

Bendix

I remember my Mum having a Bendix 7147. It was a fab machine. I use to play with the spin switch, flicking it from 400 / 800, lol. If I can remember programme 2, a hot wash, would be done in just over 45 mins. Had a massive big drum, sloping door, and stainless steel door to.

What a pity these machines are not made anymore.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Paul

The much missed 7147.

All silver facia 7147A machine, or the follow on 7147B with black and brown facia bands?

My home Economics room had a 7147A and I bagsied the table right at the back of the room - for three years of Home Economics, I was less than a metre away from it!

Fantastic machine and VERY quiet and smooth.

Paul
p.s 7147B below

 

[matchboxpaul]

Ever Decreasing Circles

First episode you catch glimpses of their Bendix machine - think its a one dial jobby (monitor is a bit rubbish to be able to make it out for sure).

Scroll through to around 2.00mins - he even loads football kit into it, but the camera never pans down! grrrrr.

Anyways enjoy the fleeting glimpses.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

From clicking on Davids link to the Instruction manuals, I stumbled across this version of the square door Bendix, but in rarer single dial form.....the 7129 Autowasher

 

[aquarius1984]

tut tut Paul, did you not notice anythng else in the EDC clip?

 

[aquarius1984]

1.06 Hotpoint Liberator dryer - back of it minus vent hose

3.30 - he was using Persil Automatic

clearer at 3.50

 

[nickuk]

OK, confession time. I have all Ever Decreasing Circles on VHS. There is an episode later on whereby Martin overloads the machine with curtains and it jumps about. (Fake unfunny `Man can't cope' type scene) You see the machine really clearly, but I don't know how to put VHS to Youtube and don't really have the time.

Anyway, the machine is the 3 button, 500 spin Bendix. We had the four button 800 spin version of it. Dreadful machine, and certainly no relation to the `round button' predecessors made by Philco despite looking so similar. I suggested my parents bought one due to my high opinions of the round button Bendix machines and was sorely disappointed. Think these were actually Merloni (not Indesit, Servis) machines. Ours was an absolute pig and neither ingested detergent, washed, rinsed or span well. Oh and it took the softener down on about the first rinse too. I have heard better things about the single speed model, the one Martin had.

Well done Rob - had always wondered what dryer that was, wonder if Peter Eagon still has the matching Liberator washer and what he'd take for it LOL

 

[aquarius1984]

No probs Nick,

Funny you should mention about the Bendix being made by Merloni (Servis) as the picture above of the 7124 shows it has a different drum to the other Bendix machines.

Its been bugging me for days about that one but it does look like the Servis drum although it has a hint of Candy Domino too.

Not a true Bendix me thinks.

ANyways back of a Hotpoint dryer....

Typical cant find a pic of the back of one of ours, wonder if Paul has one????

 

[paulinroyton]

Thanks Paul

Hi Paul.

The photo of Bendix 7147b looks great. I can remember my mums 7147. The machine was so quiet, even on spin. It also took under 1 hour to complete a load, unlike machines today.

Paul

 

[superelectronic]

Spotted - more mid 80s Bendix action on TV

Last night at 1am I was drawn into watching an episode of Dempsey and Makepeace on ITV3. The plots are totally implausible but it's good for a look at the mid 80s on location (reminder of my early childhood) and seems to have been shot in and around inner South London where I currently reside. Anyway, in this episode from 1985 featuring Suzi Quatro as the villain (wearing a jump suit and sculptured spiky hair requiring at least one can of hair lacquer - one of my sisters had something similar) one scene has Dempsey in the laundry room of a block of mansion flats...and in that laundry room there were several of the Bendix machines as shown in this thread! He was using the 6 button version with progress dial by the looks of it.

Talk about coincidence!

In later episodes he has a Hoover Electron in another flat.

Just wanted to share that one...haven't got time at the moment to track it down as link, if one even exists.

Alex

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Rob.

Missed the liberator/17 series, as was just skipping through to kitchen scenes. Wellspotted - i noticed the Persil though. A bit of free advertsining on the beeb - frowned upon.
x-p

Hi Nick.
You have confirmed my faint recollections. Alwasy nice to know that you (meaning me) aren't a nutter, making things up.
I only remember him kind of telling it off and the camera angles aimed to give the impression that when Richard Briers was talking, that you were the washing machine looking back at him and vice versa (yu know what i mean).

I havent the foggiest idea of how to convert VHS to computer speak - no doubt will need some expensive software package. I will spend some time scrolling through the episdes on youtube to find it. fingers crossed.

Paul
p.s is it peoples judgement then that, if the machine has the oblongish bank of buttons, then its a Merloni machine and if it has round buttons then its pure Bendix.
That learning curve is getting steeper - be great to know which machines were 'pure' bendix/philco.