Can anyone identify this 'mystery' washer dryer?

[candyd10_14x]

Hi all, hope you are all ok and having a good Christmas Holiday and looking forward to the New Year.

Was just looking through some old home videos of my parents in their flat in Wales (Abergele & Pensarn) and I noticed a very unusual looking washing machine that I've never seen before in the UK.

See pictures attached:

It's definitely not a Hotpoint or Hoover, the only thing I can think of, it looks very similar to the Italian make 'Zerowatt' or one of the Sangiorgio machines, but even there I cannot see resemblance. Either that or there could be a possibility of it being a 'Sculthess' (German make).

The year in the video is 1995 if this helps, as well as this I do not believe this machine has an OOB sensor as I heard a few videos of it spinning quite unbalanced in the background.

Cheers, I know all you washer-brainiacs will get it right (hopefully haha).

Brandon.

 

[paulc]

Brandon, those machines were sold under the Kelvinator name and were made by Candy.

 

[paulc]

I think they were made in the Candy factory in Bromborough on Merseyside

 

[haxisfan]

I'll second Paulc on that...

I can recognise the cabinet, control panel (different colours), kick strip + filter and the glass bowl (not the door frame) as being the same as the Candy Domino machines. I guess the square door was fitted on these models to make them look different... in fact at first glimpse I wouldn't have thought it was a Candy: the penny dropped only when I read Paul's comment, and I also remember reading somewhere Candy was making these washer-dryers for Kelivinator in Europe.

 

[candyd10_14x]

Candy and Kelvinator

Hi Paul, Haxisfan.

Thank you for your contributions, I can now see what you mean about the lookalike to Candy Dominos, the soap drawer especially (which was kind of why I assumed I had seen a machine like it before), as well as this I have just been reading that in 1980, Candy Group acquired Kelvinator and also later bought Zerowatt into their group.

I do not suppose any of you would have any pictures of this type of machine in a much clearer form? I'd like to see some more of these.

Thanks

Brandon.

P.S. would anyone know of the model numbers of these machines?

 

[paulc]

I'm afraid I know very little about these machines and have only ever seen one (broken) one in the flesh. I know they have been discussed on here before and am pretty sure pictures have been posted, by Matchbox Paul if I remember correctly

 

[candyd10_14x]

That's ok Paul, I did have a little nosy around the forums, and found some similar articles (brochures) with Kelvinator machines in the UK and a few that were basically re-badged Candy machines.

I'll have another look at the movie and see if I can notice anything else about the machine.

And to show the resemblance, here is a picture of a Candy Domino D10.14X, I can see where you guys are coming from now.