nokia2010
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Well, thank you for the info. Those fashion magazines are from 1964 and no big info about detergents. But did "Sunil" made detergent especially for automatich washing machines?
I do remember hearing or seeing an documentary few years ago (probably heard it at the radio, I'm not 100% sure). The narrator sayed about detergents and how expensive where automatic washing machines in the '50's and '60's *. Couldn't thnink at my life without an automatic washing machine. Back then I wondered how the old automatic washing machine looked (well, in an episode of "Tom and Jerry" you can see an American automatic washing machine, front loading, but with an horizontal agitator, like a top loader). Searched few years ago old washing machines, but didn't found back then the very old ones. A guy from a Romanian forum mentioned last month about a Romanian assambled (later made) washing machine and I've started the search.
I wondered if any one had here front loading automatic washing machines in the '60's. In the '70's I think they imported some from "Gorenje" (they mentioned them in a repiar book), but I don't know about '60's. They bought automobiles from Wester-Germany (imported for the state or by private persons)**, but I don't know about washing machines. Funny thing: in Romanian washing machine is maşină de spălat (plural: maşini de spălat). But maşină is generally used for automobiles (automobile in Romanian), and by many for buses too and sometimes even trolleybuses!
* an automatic "Bauknecht" was about 1.995 West-German Marks around 1959. I wonder what where the wages (sallaryes) in Western-Germany back then. Starting with the price of a hobby magazine I made a calcuation and it resulted in today's money it have had to cost around 3.000 Euros. Not quyte cheap for even a German.
** I made the comparation because of size. Officially they imported "Reanult" and "F.I.A.T." automobiles (for the general public). People bought electronics too, but besides television sets and big radio consoles (cabinet type), the rest could be carry in the plane or the train.
I do remember hearing or seeing an documentary few years ago (probably heard it at the radio, I'm not 100% sure). The narrator sayed about detergents and how expensive where automatic washing machines in the '50's and '60's *. Couldn't thnink at my life without an automatic washing machine. Back then I wondered how the old automatic washing machine looked (well, in an episode of "Tom and Jerry" you can see an American automatic washing machine, front loading, but with an horizontal agitator, like a top loader). Searched few years ago old washing machines, but didn't found back then the very old ones. A guy from a Romanian forum mentioned last month about a Romanian assambled (later made) washing machine and I've started the search.
I wondered if any one had here front loading automatic washing machines in the '60's. In the '70's I think they imported some from "Gorenje" (they mentioned them in a repiar book), but I don't know about '60's. They bought automobiles from Wester-Germany (imported for the state or by private persons)**, but I don't know about washing machines. Funny thing: in Romanian washing machine is maşină de spălat (plural: maşini de spălat). But maşină is generally used for automobiles (automobile in Romanian), and by many for buses too and sometimes even trolleybuses!
* an automatic "Bauknecht" was about 1.995 West-German Marks around 1959. I wonder what where the wages (sallaryes) in Western-Germany back then. Starting with the price of a hobby magazine I made a calcuation and it resulted in today's money it have had to cost around 3.000 Euros. Not quyte cheap for even a German.
** I made the comparation because of size. Officially they imported "Reanult" and "F.I.A.T." automobiles (for the general public). People bought electronics too, but besides television sets and big radio consoles (cabinet type), the rest could be carry in the plane or the train.
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