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Re; American gild Westinghouse 3 door fridge

never see any here anymore either. Most were branded Admiral, Gibson, Kelvinator, and Montgomery Ward, and long gone to the crushers.
 
Hoover & Miele

I suppose this should strictly go over on vacuumland but I thought it might be of interest too. The Hoover polisher would date from about the first half of the 1960s, most often they were sold with a tank for shampoo and the like. The models from the 1950s (polishers only) had a headlight.

The Miele is a rarity. Firstly this combo of polisher and vacuum is very unusual in the UK, I believe they are more popular in mainland Europe. That's not to say they were not sold here and Hoover even had a model in the mid 1960s, but they are not common. That it is a Miele is even rarer - although very common place now (and they have been for about the last 15 years) its very unusual to find a Miele cleaner of any kind from before 1980 and even up to 1990 they are not common.

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Laundry Lab

Thanks Hass for posting the ads above.

I had one of those Candy machines around 1990/91 (it was not new) and as I recall it washed OK although the spin speed was only 600rpm or maybe 400 - it was pretty low anyway. That's a rare machine although I can think of only one member likely to get it.
 
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Revo

Louis

Maybe not so wonderful - I had to go back and look at it more closely.

Its actually a bit of a cop out when they talk about the warming compartment when most cookers of the time would have had a drawer, usually heated, under the oven as well as a compartment of some kind for the grill - with the oven on this was more than ample to warm plates even with the grill being on. With the Revo there appears to be nothing under the oven at all, they have just enclosed the space.

You are right about the rectangular plate, and they were not very effective. If using the plate you were supposed to insert a deflector to sent the heat back up but it was not that good. Of course if you were using the grill that plate would get hot too.

It would only heat up the kitchen when the oven or plates were on, a sign of inefficiency more than anything else, even with the small gap it would be interesting to see the state of the cupboards beside it. And the handles look like they have been replaced.

Returning to the GEC ("I am so happy with my GEC") it is missing the door on the grill compartment but I noticed something else - in the second picture you can see a cover marked "Fuses" - I have never before or since seen such a thing on a British cooker - I could only think there might have been one if there was a 15amp socket (i.e. unfused plug) on the cooker itself

Al
 
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Canadian 40amp range/cooker work in UK?

<span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">Seeking help, a friend moving back to England wants to take her Canadian built range, no electronics all mechanical controls. It is rated as needing a 40 amp circuit and currently has 4 wire connection, 2 hot 120 volt wires equalling 240 volts, 1 neutral and 1 separate ground. Unlike the USA which still has some 3 wire connections,Canada has required plug-in 4 wire connecting cables and sockets,and conversion of older direct hard-wired ranges if ever disconnected, for decades. With a UK suitable connecting cable should this work in UK?</span>
 
That Philips radio looks a bit odd without any push buttons, but perhaps the dials are double? The turntable however is a Philips classic! It's an AG1014 and it's indeed from the 50's. It looks newer because it has a newer element on it. The original one was much wider and a bit more yellow. It was hard to find a picture of it with the original element, but here it is.

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Canadian Range

I am no expert but it could be tricky.

It is not unusual in this country nowadays to have a 40amp breaker in the distribution board it is by no means universal and would almost certainly require a new line brought from the board to the range.

I think a lot will depend on how things are wired internally - anything wired between one hot and neutral (hence 120V) will almost certainly have to be changed and that may not be possible. Unless she is bringing a container of other possessions over it is going to be horrifically expensive to ship it. And, of course, if any parts go wrong it will be almost impossible to replace. And then she will have to have someone connect it up, 3 or 4 wire plugs for ranges are unknown here and she may have problems getting a reputable electrician connect it.

Is there any particular reason why she wants to bring it? We have a huge selection of both free standing and built in units with all sorts of combinations of cooktops and ovens which are unlikely to be more expensive than shipping a range over. Sorry to be so negative about it all

Al
 
Philips radiogram

Good point Louis, maybe that is why I did not associate it so much with the 1950s, indeed you would have expected pushbuttons to select the wave bands - there seem to be four (Long Wave, Medium Wave, Short Wave and FM) and of course "Gram" for record player and even perhaps Tape. It is such an unusual style, I wonder if it was something that was custom made for the Philips components
 

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