Thanks Mike
for this great celebratory thread, hoover hit the jackpot of matching the right product with the market requirements at the right time. True it didn't do everything, but it took the washday in from the back yard and dolly tub, compact enough to store and use in the average kitchen, and combined the wringer into one unit, so no need to clamp a wringer to the sink or go back outside to a separate wringer.
The other part to celebrate is how this basic washing principle was then developed to larger capacity single tubs, twin tubs and then the automatic. I would suggest that over the next 30 years, Hoovers triumph to stay as market leaders was to develop ranges of machines at a prices that matched the markets buying ability and fitted into the lives and kitchen of the users, also machines that were cost effective to manufacture, making a good profit that could be put into product development further marketing.
I had no experience of this machine until the days of collecting machines, but spoke to one lady I was doing a repair for, I noticed two cut off bolts under the washer and asked did you have a bendix, so got talking, yes she did, but before that had one of these Hoover washers, she just said it was a little wonder back then and when her mother saw it she was just transfixed as she'd never seen a washing machine before.
As one slogan ran
"the secrets in the tub"
Mathew
