CREDA

[vacbear58]

Great machines?

My Mum had a Reversomat as shown in reply 73, bought at the end of 1977. As a dryer it was OK and it was still going strong in 1997 BUT that front venting was a complete pain in the butt. The conical cover was screwed on from the inside and so spoiled the whole look of the (rather attractive to me) machine, and the hose has to be clipped on and off everytime it was used otherwise there would have been a great coil of plastic vent hose all over the kitchen floor.

Al

 

[optima]

After all these years the Creda,Hotpoint & Indesit compact dryers still have the same design & the same front venting which is a pain never did like the idea of having to screw the cover on the door & vent from the front. Indesit company also took the wheels off it daft idea making them dificult to move around. Most people would push there compact dryers to the back door & stick the hose out. White Knight have the best compacts & they have wheels on & a vent hose at the back where it should be.

 

[bertrum]

Hi,
On post 518497, by matchboxpaul,
Is that a fox sitting on the chair next to the lady who is sorting laundry next to her Creda appliances?.
Also could it be Bazil brush who I believe made his first appearance about this time, in the early 70's?.
I think if Bazil brush was here now he would want me to quote him, "HA HA HA, Boom,Boom!".

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda - The Unsung Hero of UK Laundry....

Great thread about one of the Great British Iconic Laundry Brands...alas no more!! Creda introduced their Creda Debonair Spin Dryer in the late 50`s and the laundry brand was born, many a home had the cream and red model, and what a boom to housewifes having just a mangle, I was talking to my great Aunt Bess recently and recounted a story of my gran visiting here sister after aunty had her new baby son, my gran offered to do the washing & help but with only a Hotpoint Empress & mangle and no spinner and a very wet day outside it was better to decline the offer for that day as the washing would have been all over the house!!! A spinner was bought soon after...LOl

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Debonair - Popular

2,800rpm, gravity drain

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Debonair - Popular

Beautiful Copper Drum

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Debonair - Popular

Spinning & Draining!!

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi guys.

Thanks for the contributions - great to hear peoples memories of Creda machines - good and bad.

Have to agree that the vent hose arrangement with creda was definately a tad archaic and something that they were change with the next series of offerings, which arrived in the stores during 1980

 

[matchboxpaul]

The core standard model was the smart model 10700 One Thousand electronic.

Couldnt be any more visually different - from a silver facia to dark black and from a square white door with thin chrome trim, to a round door with chunky chrome trim.

Certainly a new look for a new era of Creda...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Now, this whole series of machines are quite illusive.

The ever useful reference pages of Which Magazines, surrendered details of a small batch of exclusive models created from 1981 through to 1985/86.

However, alongside the standard 10700 wasl the One Thousand RS electronic - I think this is the model 10800...

 

[matchboxpaul]

The exclusives detailed in Which Magazine were the following:

model 11000 (1000rpm) 'Allander' for House of Fraser
model 11300 (1000rpm) 'Debonair' for CIH Independents
model 11400 (1000rpm) 'Crusader' for Rumbelows
model 11500 (1000rpm) 'electra' for the Electricity Board Shops
model 11600 (1000rpm) 'Crusader' for Rumbelows (this, I assumed replaced model 11400)

 

[matchboxpaul]

Only have two pics of the exclusives...

Here is model 11400 Creda 'Crusader' electronic 1000....

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the model 11500 'electra' electronic de luxe, of which Mike has a lovely example (will let you post the picks of your machine Mike!)...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Models 10700 and 10800 were upgraded to become models 11700 and 11800, circa 1983/84, and apparrently gained the names 'debonair electronic' and 'debonair super elctronic'.

No pictures of either of them unfortunately.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Nor a picture of the 1984 model ????? concorde electronic exclusive for Comet.

I think the above was probably the final model based upon the 10700.

 

[matchboxpaul]

1981

Not forgetting though, the pinnacle of the black facia machines in the form of the Model 12000 Microelectronic De Luxe.

Only ever saw one of these - a lovely looking machine

 

[lavamat_jon]

Hi Paul - great scans! Have never seen that MicroElectronic model before, looks very hi-tech - as you know I have a soft spot for all-pushbutton control panels!  What does the dial on the right say? I can't quite make it out on my screen.

 

Cheers, take care,

 

Jon

 

[supermaticjames]

Microelectronic

Such a nice machine... Speechless.

 

[aegokocarat]

is my creda energy saver dryer relevent to this thread? if so i will get a pic of it asap

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Jon and James.

Have only the vaguest recollections of the Creda MicroElectronic and it was one of the first machines I ever mentioned, when I joined Discuss O Mat! Question was basically did anyone else remember it.

Then Mathew (keymatic3203) produced a book with a picture in it of the 12000 and finally there it was!
The machine I saw was plumbed in and working, outside the town centre branch of (I think) Currys in Accrington.

The dial is 'power off' at the left and 'power on' at the right.

Below is a link to one of Hass' adverts, containing the model 12000 and a front venting Creda Debonair...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Tom.

Feel free to post piccies of your machine - its a creda thread, so anything Creda-ish goes.

Paul

 

[optima]

Loads of exciting Creda/Hotpoint instruction book reading material Starting with the Creda 11800 debonair 1000.

hotpointservice.co.uk/hs/pages/manual/manualsearch.do

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Debonair

Just look at all those interesting models and tell me UK laundry wasnt ahead of its time...those models would fit into a shop floor line up with ease today!!!

Heres the Electra 11500 made by Creda

 

[chestermikeuk]

Controls

Lovely orange accents..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Debonair - Popular

Timer - this makes a lovely loud click tick when moving around!!

 

Dont you just love 1,2 5 & 7 - These relate to the HLCC (Home laundry Care Council) fabric wash codes, most washing machines in the UK from the 70's had these simple numbers to programme your wash - much simpler back then  - but I do like the overrides of today!!

 

1 = Whites 95d

2 = Lights  60d

5 = Darks 40d

7 = Woollens 40d

[this post was last edited: 5/24/2011-04:23]

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Electra

Drum, just look at those baffles and spider arch supports, really solid

 

[chestermikeuk]

Creda Electra

Dispenser, smooth sides no nooks or crannies and jets that blast everything down the shute - as one expects!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Electra Creda 11500

Rear view, solid and does the job, the transit brace fitted right across the back of the machine under the back plate!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Electra Creda 11500

Ready for a wash!!

 

[mattywashboy]

My neighbors as I was growing up in the UK next door had a Creda Concord 1100 with the dark facia, two dials, three or four switches and a tiny on/off button, can't find a photo of any on the internet but it looked awesome. It was replaced later with a Creda Supaspeed 1200. Very cool. If anyone has any photos of the Concord models that would be a great memory jolt :-D

Matt