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MK Cooker Control Switch

Further up the thread I posted a cooker control switch, well this was by far the most popular model, from the early 1960s. It got a styling update in the 1970s but fundamentally it was the same. How this worked was that the front panel was removed leaving the switch assembly. This was mounted into a large box, buried in the wall. Then the panel is screwed back on. the front panel was quite a bit bigger than the mounting box.

There is a lot of space around the switch but it did allow for the thick cables needed for a cooker

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1970s Kitchen

The Moffat oven indicates that this is from the early 1970s, by the way the Moffat hob is not contemporary with it but must have been added later. This is a UK manufacture rather than Canadian Moffat by the way so the oven elements are on the sides of the oven rather than top and bottom. The AEG dishwasher is probably the nearest thing we had to an "electric sink" - never something that was popular here and it does stand out somewhat in the whole kitchen. Mind you the reaction I have when seeing it is "Want Want Want" but of course it is far too far away from me. I love the green floor tiles too ....

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Those Flatley Driers

Would never be allowed today, very unsafe. But as with many other things they served a purpose at the time so there you are then.

http://www.1900s.org.uk/1950s-60s-flatley.htm

These Flatley driers were simply small condensed versions of the huge cabinet driers with racks found in commercial laundries, steamies, wash houses and great houses. Worked on the same principle; heat rose from the bottom and via convection dried laundry and was carried off at the top.

Problems arouse if anything was placed too close to heating elements it could not only scorch but catch fire. If the latter happened wouldn't be long before everything inside the dryer began burning with unit following. Worse if the thing was near drapes or whatever that could burn....
 

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