sesteve
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Hotpoint supermatic
Here’s a brochure I meant to post and forgot
Here’s a brochure I meant to post and forgot
British Twintub Washing Machines 1959 - 1990
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sesteve
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Not sure if I posted this either - another view of the Frigidaire
Ooooh
Frigidaire Jetamatic how wonderful is that ! Anyone got one ?
Frigidaire Jetamatic how wonderful is that ! Anyone got one ?
supertwin59
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HOTPOINT EMPRESS
I didn't know that it was in production well into the 1960s!!!!!!
I didn't know that it was in production well into the 1960s!!!!!!
Hi Walter,
I think the Empress went on till about 1974
Regards
I think the Empress went on till about 1974
Regards
sesteve
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Hi Keith
The brochure covered all that range - I only photographed the twin tub bits for the thread.
I think the Frigidaire brochure did and was actually for fridges but had this on the back. It’s a bit flower power looking in its design lol
S
The brochure covered all that range - I only photographed the twin tub bits for the thread.
I think the Frigidaire brochure did and was actually for fridges but had this on the back. It’s a bit flower power looking in its design lol
S
Hi Steve,
Hotpoint did some good marketing material at that time
I sold one of those Frigidaire leaflets a while ago as it didn’t have much on washers..you might have been the lucky buyer lol
Cheers
Keith
Ps. Getting there slowly with the 1504 - bowl & clamp support next on the list.
Hotpoint did some good marketing material at that time
I sold one of those Frigidaire leaflets a while ago as it didn’t have much on washers..you might have been the lucky buyer
lol Cheers
Keith
Ps. Getting there slowly with the 1504 - bowl & clamp support next on the list.
The frigidaire twin tub
totally bored out of my mind this morning i turned on the Tv 9AM [bbc2]They are showing reruns of Bless This house from the early 70s .I was enthralled to see Mrs Abbot [Dianna Coupland doing the washing in a Frigiaire mastertwin [the earlier model ]
totally bored out of my mind this morning i turned on the Tv 9AM [bbc2]They are showing reruns of Bless This house from the early 70s .I was enthralled to see Mrs Abbot [Dianna Coupland doing the washing in a Frigiaire mastertwin [the earlier model ]
the Frigidaire brochure
nice to see those machines again .Haven't seen a jetamatic in 40 years nice machine .we once got the American version in for repair [imported by a doctor ]I went to a large rambling house on the outskirts of Middlesbrough to collect it .Once in the house we were taken to the scullery where the jetamatic lived with its matching dryer both in bright yellow enamel.The wqasher had a big transformer to drop the voltage down to 110 [the jetamatic had no heater]The fault was that while the machine would wash it wouldn't spin Hmm clutch plates i thought [thinking i would have to order them from the states] i was pleasantly surprised to find they were the same as the ones fitted to the uk version .fitted a new set and away it went .Must have cost an arm and a leg to import those machines to the UK .The Frigidaire spin dryers were great and very popular i think back in the day loads of people bought on to go with their wringer washer [usually chucking the wringer]There was an earlier version of the spinner in cream with a chrome handle and a grey band round the lid along with a rubber spout launched around 1958/9 exactly the same inside. I once called to a house in hartlepool to repair one of the older spin dryers .The lady was so happy with her working spin dryer she gave me a fridge [A huge cream Frigidaire ]that had stopped working .her husband had bought a new Fridge freezer [they were just catching on over here in the early 70s]I called back later with my brother to collect the beast and took it home [still living at home back then]Once home i plugged it in just to see what was up .A quick click then nothing .relay i thought .brought one home from work the next day and fitted it and switched on again there was that click again but this time i was rewarded with that comforting purr that modern fridges dont make .Mum was delighted [she had never had a fridge till then .Mums gone now but the fridge is in the kitchen still purrrrrrrring away like mad.Sorry for rambling on guys
nice to see those machines again .Haven't seen a jetamatic in 40 years nice machine .we once got the American version in for repair [imported by a doctor ]I went to a large rambling house on the outskirts of Middlesbrough to collect it .Once in the house we were taken to the scullery where the jetamatic lived with its matching dryer both in bright yellow enamel.The wqasher had a big transformer to drop the voltage down to 110 [the jetamatic had no heater]The fault was that while the machine would wash it wouldn't spin Hmm clutch plates i thought [thinking i would have to order them from the states] i was pleasantly surprised to find they were the same as the ones fitted to the uk version .fitted a new set and away it went .Must have cost an arm and a leg to import those machines to the UK .The Frigidaire spin dryers were great and very popular i think back in the day loads of people bought on to go with their wringer washer [usually chucking the wringer]There was an earlier version of the spinner in cream with a chrome handle and a grey band round the lid along with a rubber spout launched around 1958/9 exactly the same inside. I once called to a house in hartlepool to repair one of the older spin dryers .The lady was so happy with her working spin dryer she gave me a fridge [A huge cream Frigidaire ]that had stopped working .her husband had bought a new Fridge freezer [they were just catching on over here in the early 70s]I called back later with my brother to collect the beast and took it home [still living at home back then]Once home i plugged it in just to see what was up .A quick click then nothing .relay i thought .brought one home from work the next day and fitted it and switched on again there was that click again but this time i was rewarded with that comforting purr that modern fridges dont make .Mum was delighted [she had never had a fridge till then .Mums gone now but the fridge is in the kitchen still purrrrrrrring away like mad.Sorry for rambling on guys
British Twintub Washing Machines 1957 - 1990
Oh Steve, lovely Hotpoint brochures and dark blue Hygena kitchen as well BUT whats with all those trades descriptions ? "Frothing" pushing it a bit there ha ha..
Walter yes hard to imagine with twinnies and autos about just how long the Empress and other wringers carried on being made, Servis still produced the compact up to 1976...
Oh Steve, lovely Hotpoint brochures and dark blue Hygena kitchen as well BUT whats with all those trades descriptions ? "Frothing" pushing it a bit there ha ha..
Walter yes hard to imagine with twinnies and autos about just how long the Empress and other wringers carried on being made, Servis still produced the compact up to 1976...
British Twintub Washing Machines 1957 - 1990
Morning Anthoney, no need to apologise for rambling, its great information to hear about machines from people like yourself who worked on them. I used love seeing those Frigidaire thumpers in the local launderettes, amazing wash action.
So did the UK Jetamatic have a heater in it at all ? I think it was a solid tub with overflow rinse,? did you work on many of our models ?
ps. Can you confirm if the above frigidaire twinny was indeed the Philips version with agitator ( Reply 218 )
Morning Anthoney, no need to apologise for rambling, its great information to hear about machines from people like yourself who worked on them. I used love seeing those Frigidaire thumpers in the local launderettes, amazing wash action.
So did the UK Jetamatic have a heater in it at all ? I think it was a solid tub with overflow rinse,? did you work on many of our models ?
ps. Can you confirm if the above frigidaire twinny was indeed the Philips version with agitator ( Reply 218 )
rolls_rapide
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"Bless This House"
I saw part of an episode last week, possibly on ForcesTV. There was what I took to be an Indesit L5 in Diana Coupland's kitchen, to the left of the back door.
I saw part of an episode last week, possibly on ForcesTV. There was what I took to be an Indesit L5 in Diana Coupland's kitchen, to the left of the back door.
Bless this house
Has been on Forces TV for quite a while
Always watched it to see what machine they had it was a Frigidaire Twin tub I never saw her use though. We had an L5 in 1977 so I recognised that when it arrived in their kitchen, from what I can recall there were not many programs where you saw the washing machine at all.
Austin
Has been on Forces TV for quite a while
Always watched it to see what machine they had it was a Frigidaire Twin tub I never saw her use though. We had an L5 in 1977 so I recognised that when it arrived in their kitchen, from what I can recall there were not many programs where you saw the washing machine at all.
Austin
rolls_rapide
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I remember that in the 'Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads', the episode where they go on a bike ride, there was a Rolls Rapide twin-tub in Terry's sister's kitchen (Sheila Fearn).
And 'The Liver Birds' featured an Indesit automatic.
And 'The Liver Birds' featured an Indesit automatic.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads...
I am sure I once saw an episode with Thelma - Brigit Forsyth in a kitchen with a Frigidaire Jetamatic..
Cheers
I am sure I once saw an episode with Thelma - Brigit Forsyth in a kitchen with a Frigidaire Jetamatic..
Cheers
Frigidaire Jetamatic
supertwin59
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1973/4 Hotpoint Empress.
I want an unused BNIB Empress for Xmas.
About as likely as being a single winner of a roll over euro lottery!!!!!!!
I want an unused BNIB Empress for Xmas.
About as likely as being a single winner of a roll over euro lottery!!!!!!!
keymatic3203
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Walter
what were we always told, `I want doesn't get'. lol
what were we always told, `I want doesn't get'. lol
Hi Chestermikeuk
Our uk Jetamatic did have a heater [the biggest one i have ever seen on a washing machine ] The american version didn't [not a good idea when you only have 110 volts to play with ]The later Frigidaire TT was indeed a Phillips clone but i am not sure about the earlier model of which there were two .They looked identical from the outside the only noticeable difference was one would have a blue plate behind the knobs .the other had a black one .The machine with the blue Plate [the one i have seen in every episode of Bless this house this week ]had a large induction motor one end directly driving the wash impeller the other end of the motor shaft driving the recirculate pump while the one with the black plate had a second spin motor driving the same impeller and a pump by means of a pulley and a v belt [also seen on an English electric machine]While the small motor was quite capable of driving the spin dryer it was too small and under powered to drive the wash impeller under full load .Both machines used the same spin bearing assembly as the Frigidaire spin dryer .Incidentally the early Twintub had a worktop specially shaped to fit the sort of elliptical shape of the machine .So to sum up the earlier machine it appeared to have a rolls wash tub set up and a Frigidaire spin dryer in one cabinet All accessed through the bottom [wish i could get hold of one then you could see what i mean] I once had one of these machines upside down in the workshop doing a repair while the apprentice next to me was busy changing a compressor on a fridge .When he decided to do a test on the fridge and plugged it in [you guessed it ] he put the wrong plug in [TT plug ] 43 years later i still have the scars on mu right hand to remind me of that day
Our uk Jetamatic did have a heater [the biggest one i have ever seen on a washing machine ] The american version didn't [not a good idea when you only have 110 volts to play with ]The later Frigidaire TT was indeed a Phillips clone but i am not sure about the earlier model of which there were two .They looked identical from the outside the only noticeable difference was one would have a blue plate behind the knobs .the other had a black one .The machine with the blue Plate [the one i have seen in every episode of Bless this house this week ]had a large induction motor one end directly driving the wash impeller the other end of the motor shaft driving the recirculate pump while the one with the black plate had a second spin motor driving the same impeller and a pump by means of a pulley and a v belt [also seen on an English electric machine]While the small motor was quite capable of driving the spin dryer it was too small and under powered to drive the wash impeller under full load .Both machines used the same spin bearing assembly as the Frigidaire spin dryer .Incidentally the early Twintub had a worktop specially shaped to fit the sort of elliptical shape of the machine .So to sum up the earlier machine it appeared to have a rolls wash tub set up and a Frigidaire spin dryer in one cabinet All accessed through the bottom [wish i could get hold of one then you could see what i mean] I once had one of these machines upside down in the workshop doing a repair while the apprentice next to me was busy changing a compressor on a fridge .When he decided to do a test on the fridge and plugged it in [you guessed it ] he put the wrong plug in [TT plug ] 43 years later i still have the scars on mu right hand to remind me of that day
