Gary's machines - an update on the Hoovers

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Here you go then Gary - an update on some of your machines a month and a bit down the line.
Sorry for the delay....

 

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A3060 Electronic 1100

A bit of background first.

First off the ebay photo of the machine at its first home in Cornwall Road, Darlington....

 

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Gary won it and me and my late father went and collected it. here is the machine in the back of my dad's car...

 

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it then resided in mine and rob's care for a few months, rubbing shoulders with some of its other Merthyr family...

 

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before heading down to Cardiff soon after, to meet its new owner who drove up to collect it....

 

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before it settled down into its new home in Cornwall - having resided in Cornwall Road in darlington, it was a bit strange that its second long term home would be in Cornwall...

 

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then came October and the news that Gary would be releasing his machines, for new owners to take them on.
With the passing of my father in March this year, this machine had taken on a degree of emotional baggage as far as I was concerned as I had collected it for Gary with my dad.

Thankyou to Gary for allowing me to take ownership of this machine.

Over the last few months Gary had done a heavy overhaul on the machine, the threads for which can be found in the forum archives....

 

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The machines were collected in October, with Al, Mathew, Mike and myself making room in our storage locations to squeeze these examples of Hoover's history into our collections.

Over 4 days, Mike drove from:

St.Helens to Cardiff
Cardiff to Saltash
Saltash to Cardiff
Cardiff to Crewe
Crewe to Derby
Derby to Crewe
&
Crewe to St. Helens

in a very BIG van dropping off and collecting machines en-route.

The four machines that I acquired were dropped off in Derby, to await a spring clean and a decision on where they would be based.

 

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Back to the A3060

Th A3060 was subjected to an external clean over and thick layer of polish a couple of weekends ago.

Here are some photos of the machine as the clean and polish progressed.

The New Magics were introduced in February 1978, with his machine dating from September of that year...

 

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lif off...

 

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details of the programmer timer...

 

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solonoids...

 

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pristine powder container...

 

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front to back view...

 

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after polishing...

powder drawer fascia...

 

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programme guide...

 

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programmer dial...

 

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and here it is!

 

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