CREDA

[optima]

Many Thanks Paul for uploading these brochures. A excellent read. The model after the Super deluxe Electronic was the Ti Creda Debonair Super Electronic 11800. Exactly the same with rhythm spin but now with 1000 spin & a round door.

 

[gansky1]

Thanks for posting, Paul, these are very interesting. Do these dryers vent from the front grille on the door? I see a notation about an optional exhaust hose, if venting from the door does it snap onto the front? I do like the option of drop-down or side-swing door, would save many bumped heads when stacked on a washer!

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Tom.

Not too au fait with the mid 90s Creda offerings, but I have a feeling that the machine you own will be mid 90s. Is it something like the machine below?

If so, then yep - its a Hotpoint 95 in drag essentially.

Owned by the same company, Creda machines were restyled Hotpoint machines - hence why you are plowing your way through brushes! lol
Good thing about the brushes is that that is pretty much all that goes awry with them.
They are generally long lived and rugged machines which, though they can be fragile on the outside, are built quite solidly and robustly on the inside.

In the later years of the Creda brand, it was generally the case that the previous generation of Hotpoint machines carried on in production, but being branded Creda.

You are right in that there is no removable filter on the machine - you have to remove the plastic central core from the sump, which serves the same purpose as the removable filter - but a lot ore hassle to clean.

I know what you mean about the heating noise - they perculate, is a way you could describe it.

Paul

 

[optima]

Such a shame that the brainless Indesit Company have dropped the Creda name. All we have left in our store is 2 T313VW compact Dryers & 1 Hotpoint Creda Collecton Electric Cooker. What next i think i Know Cannon Cookers.

 

[keymatic]

Hi Paul,
Nice to see the old brochure again, I have the same one !! When i was at senior school we had two Home Economics rooms and the to two teachers had vast amounts of of appliance literature, probably by filling in the forms and receiving an abundance of pamphlets, brochures etc from companies..probably dating back to the late 60's. I managed to get a few bits, this one being one, along with a Servis Compact brochure.
I would upload some onto here, but there is soo much literature now, i don't have it catalogued anymore..although i mainly focus on 50's & 60's.
Happy uploading !!
Keith

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Lee.

Know what you mean about the dials.

Though i like them a lot, when I see a picture of a square door Creda you see many traits from more familiar machines.

Hotpoint 18 series style dials, but a great deal more chunky, and an oh so Hoover bodyshell with square door (though the flush door style bodyshell was adopted about 4 years before Hoover did).

A really smart looking machine.

Paul
p.s How is the bodshell respray going? any news?

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Craig.

The status of the Creda name on laundry equipement confuses me. You see it on the one model of full size dryer and the usual compact and little or nothing else.
I cant remember seeing a Creda washing machine in any stores for about the last 10 years - were they exclusives only?

You are only the 2nd person I know of to have owned one of these machines! They must have sold more than 2, but god only knows who else bought them.

With the later black facis machines being seemingly just as rare - maybe they werent as long lasting as the other models around at the time?

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

HI Gan.

Yep, the dryers were all front venting.

Along with the vent hose, you received an adaptor akin to a flat side bowl with the base cut off. The wide end of the adaptor covered the grille on the door and the vent hose plugged in the other end.

The TD400 dryer on the left has the adaptor, whilst the dryer on the right is without.

You mention the swing door conversion kit! Until I read that little snippet, I never knew that they did such a thing! Having mentioned it to other people, they knew neither and none of us has ever seen a converted machine. A very rare feature.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Keith.

I remember you too had a copy of this brochure, saving copies of the pages you posted many moons ago.

Thank god my Home Ec room didnt have an appliance literature library! I am sure I would have been a wee bit distracted lol.

Servis Compact brochure!!!! Is that the Compact front loader machines or the wringer machines? Either way, if you still have it or its to hand, be great to see it!

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Were these Creda's firsts?

The Creda Laundrair washing machine and dryer.

The dryer looks to be yet another clone of the Parnall autodry...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Was this Creda's first foray into washing machines?

 

[matchboxpaul]

Rebranded again from Parnall, being a Parnall Spinwasher...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Here is the TD59 Parnall Autodry from which the Creda was derived...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the Parnall TD67 Auto-dry compact dryer, available in 1969...

 

[matchboxpaul]

which went on to provide the basis of the first version Creda TD275, from circa 1973...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Trying to fathom Creda out!

Were the Laundrair pair, Creda's first washer and dryer?

When the Laundrair washer was discontinued, did Creda fall out of the washing machine market until the introduction of the first square door machine? I dont know of any Creda washing machine between these two models.

Who owned Creda back in the 60s and what was the relationship with Parnall, to see them gradually take over the Parnall range of dryers and eventually replace the Parnall name with their own?

I am really in the mood for learning

Paul

 

[optima]

Paul, Here in Cumbria Creda Washers & Dryers were our top sellers especially when the brand was owned by GDA. The Jackson by Creda J1000 1000 spin washer basically a Hotpoint WM52 First Edition but about £60 cheaper was a very big seller along with the Supaspeed,Simplicity,Advance,Excel range & the early COLOURS range of dark blue & olive green. Cookers also sold very well the Creda Capri,Menu,Concept,Hallmark & Expressions range. Yes they was a vast range of Creda appliances back then until Merloni took over then they started reducing the range just to basically concentrate on Indesit.

 

[vacbear58]

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Paul

As far as I know, there was not a direct link between Creda and Parnall in the early 1960s, but it would not be a surprise that Creda "badged" Parnall dryers. I was just looking over some old Creda brochures earlier tonight and at the time of the Laundaire pair Creda seems to have been a brand of Simplex. Well spotted that these were Parnall machines.

Later on they were branded as part of the TI (Tube Investments) group. Parnall were part of the Radiation group along with Jackson cookers. Late on in the 1960s the Radiation group was bought over by TI, the Parnall name was dropped and, as you correctly note above, their small drier was re-branded as Creda, which had a fit with the long running Debonair and Autopump spin driers.

Jackson cookers continued until the mid 1970s (and there was even some overlap between models) when the Jackson name was dropped although some models continued under the Creda name - noteably the "Topline". Jackson re-appeared in the mid-1980 as (I think) TOL Creda built-ins, although against the onslaught of German ovens at that time, they did not last long.

I got the Creda built in brochure that was being sold by the same person you got the washers brochure from, dated 11/77 they were still part of TI at that time.

Al

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Paul. My machine has two big dials, one labeled Economy Temp which goes from no heat to 200F. The other is labeled Wash Program. The cycles go A-G. The little label inside the door says: Model 17064E and under that: CHA242. The number under that is 21173555. There are 4 buttons labeled from the right: ON, SLOW SPIN, SUPER WASH (higher water level), WASH RINSE HOLD. There is also a nice rectangular red Power On light between the dials. I love the flexibility of choosing the temperature independently of the wash cycle. I am sort of fearful of the durability of the machine. It saw use before I got it and it served me well after my first Miele died so she is very semi-retired, a status which I feel she has earned.

 

[MrX]

Yikes, that front-venting system was pretty primitive even by 1970s standards. I'm amazed they didn't duct it out someway!

The washing machines look like Hoover machines of the same era in terms of their styling.