Single Tub
Well I can see someone is going to be kept in this weekend doing 100 lines LOLOL -
"The first Managing Director of Hoover Limited was Sir CHARLES Colston"
Mike has given you a good run down of the first model Hoover washer, the one shown by "Kenmore58" is the second version - largely similar but with larger capacity and a pump to empty the wash tub. I wonder how it managed to make its way to the USA - the earlier model was sold in Canada (as model 308) - Paul (TurquoiseDude) has one. Presumably that made its way to Canada as a Commonwealth export like the Hoover Junior Model 375 was also sold in Canada.
I always wondered if the origin of this machine was the Monitor design. I have heard the same story about Sir CHARLES (snigger) although it was pre-WW2 as there where plans drawn up for the expansion of the Perivale facility in the late 1930s and indeed if you look at the 307 its looks more like a 1930s design than 1940s.
At the time it was revolutionary and was just what the market was crying out for.
Hoover must really have raked in the profits with this machine and its Hoovermatic successors as the design is so much simpler (and therefore cheaper) than washers with central agitator.
I sometimes muse to myself over whether Sir Charles was planning a similar move into the dishwasher market when he was booted out in 1956 and he took the design of the dishwasher with him that his own company marketed for 20 years.
Al
Well I can see someone is going to be kept in this weekend doing 100 lines LOLOL -
"The first Managing Director of Hoover Limited was Sir CHARLES Colston"
Mike has given you a good run down of the first model Hoover washer, the one shown by "Kenmore58" is the second version - largely similar but with larger capacity and a pump to empty the wash tub. I wonder how it managed to make its way to the USA - the earlier model was sold in Canada (as model 308) - Paul (TurquoiseDude) has one. Presumably that made its way to Canada as a Commonwealth export like the Hoover Junior Model 375 was also sold in Canada.
I always wondered if the origin of this machine was the Monitor design. I have heard the same story about Sir CHARLES (snigger) although it was pre-WW2 as there where plans drawn up for the expansion of the Perivale facility in the late 1930s and indeed if you look at the 307 its looks more like a 1930s design than 1940s.
At the time it was revolutionary and was just what the market was crying out for.
Hoover must really have raked in the profits with this machine and its Hoovermatic successors as the design is so much simpler (and therefore cheaper) than washers with central agitator.
I sometimes muse to myself over whether Sir Charles was planning a similar move into the dishwasher market when he was booted out in 1956 and he took the design of the dishwasher with him that his own company marketed for 20 years.
Al
