yes its a brilliant dryer.
Thanks for posting these photos keith, my grandmother had the washer in cream colour in 1959, it couldn't have been out long at that time.
She held off from buying a wringer machine, then a twin tub thinking something better would come along. then one day she was haveing coffe with a friend and asked what the noise was, oh it's my new liberator, well thats what she had been waiting for, she would have been 49 at that time, until then it was hand washing and an acme mangle on the sink until then. Though being fairly well to do the bedding went to a laundry, as it did even once she had the machine until perhaps the mid 70's. Grandpa brought wrapped sliced bread to south wales as a salemen.
The machine was plumbed in under the worktop next to the sink, and for the first wash aparently they all sat round as if watching a television, (nothing strange about that lol) then two more friend bought one as well.
The machine lasted until 1986, when it was replaced with a hotpoint 9530, yes I should have chained myself to it so it couldn't have been taken away, grandma said it was like waving goodbye to an old friend when it went off as part exchange.
All was not lost, I did get the instruction book which was in good condition and have read it many times.
here is the picture on the first page, il try and scan it over the weekend.
Mike and John were kind enough to sacrifice there backs to rescue the 2nd model from a basement in manchester last year, it was me who bought it of ebay, it had been offered on this site but correspondance got nowhere. I have initially got it working but there is lots to be done, that will be another thread one day.
Mathew
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