Hoover AutoJet and SupaJet

[beehiveboy]

Hey all you wonderful guys, I’m a loooong time lurker and lover of this site, here’s my first time dipping my toe into posting! So.......especially to all you UK collectors, my main interest is vintage dishwashers, and of course in the UK they are pretty rare! For Christmas when I was 15 (I’m 45 now!) my older brother bought me a mid 70s Miele, our family’s first dishwasher. It was awesome! So........ I’d dearly love to own a Hoover AutoJet or SupaJet, I scour Evay but so far without success. Any advice from all you experienced guys would be much appreciated.
Thanks already, Paul

 

[vacbear58]

Autojets & Miele

Welcome to Automatic Washer Paul, hope you like it here.

Is this the style of Autojet & Superjet you are interested in? Or a later model



Do you recall the model number of your Miele dishwasher? I have examples of G500 & G550 which would be early I mid 1970s I think

Al

 

[beehiveboy]

Hey Al, yes, those are exactly the dishwashers I’m interested in!!!!! I’m pretty sure my Miele was a G550, circa 1975 (same year as me lol!)
It was a really good performer, cleaned everything that went into it perfectly.

 

[vacbear58]

Hoover & Miele

My friend ChesterMikeUK will probably have better photos but here are photos of my one of my G550s, I have another still G550 but slightly earlier.

 

[vacbear58]

I am just a bit further north of Northampton but lock down permitting you are welcome to pop up some weekend and have a look at them

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hoover Crystaljet & Autojet

Morning Paul and a warm welcome to AW, am sure youll find lots about the Hoover Dishwashers here, I managed to pick up an Autojet years ago, its awaiting new seals after all these years but will be up and spinning around next year after lockdown...

 

[beehiveboy]

Great pictures, great machines, I’d certainly love to see them sometime. That’s the exact Miele I had, I loved it and it performed perfectly. I’m glad I’ve taken the plunge after years of lurking!

 

[appnut]

Paul, glad you took the plunge too.

 

[beehiveboy]

Thank you Appnut

 

[alanlondon]

Hi Paul

My parents bought a second hand Hoover Superjet machine in 1977 (I'd be 12 at the time), it was their first flurry into the dishwashing machine era. It didn't have a water softener and was prone to scale coming loose and blocking the spray arms. As it got older when it was on its wash and really hot, it would drip water from the door on the RHS. It was replaced with a new Philips 2000S machine in the early 80s which looked super cool in my eyes and much more advanced.

Here's the Philips 2000 brochure and a letter my mother received in 1985 from Philips!

Hope you enjoy.

Cheers, Alan

 

[beehiveboy]

Alan, thank you so much for sharing your memories and the fantastic brochure. That push button model looks amazing! Great racking on them too with the slanted upper basket, looks to have great capacity.

 

[vacbear58]

Philips 2000

And this Alan is where it starts to get spooky - my first dishwasher was a Philips 2000S - thank you for posting the brochure - I have never seen any promotional literature on these models in all the time I have been collecting

Al

 

[beehiveboy]

I’ve actually got a Phillips brochure of similar vintage covering laundry and dishwashers, I’ll scan it in when I get a mo.

 

[alanlondon]

Thanks Paul, if it has the Slimstar in it this was one of my favourite machines. Here's the two middle pages of the brochure Al posted to complete the Superjet thread for you.

Hi Al, I loved that Philips dishwasher, but it very regularly broke as the wires from the timer down to the bottom were literally put at 90 degrees every time you opened the door and they constantly broke in the process shorting and sparking (hence the eventual letter to all owners about the problem).

Cheers, Alan

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Paul.

Welcome to the club!

Autojets and Superjets - its quite ironic that the preserved examples are from the older ranges. I say ranges, cause the first two ranges were visually identical, apart from the titles slapped on the front.

Thankfully examples of both the earliest types are safe, in the hands of Mike and Al though, if my memory serves me correctly, its only a couple of years ago that the SuperJet surfaced.

I remember many years ago, walking with my dad around the village where I lived. On the road leading back into the village, sat outside a house, was a 4805 Auto-Jet, sadly awaiting collection by the council.
I had never seen one before - never knew they existed, but immediately struck me as a smart machine. I didnt open the door, so I never saw the rotating rack arrangement these machines have.

So pleased that years later, examples have been preserved.

The adverts below show the 4805 Auto-Jet and 4809 Super-Jet.
The previous models - 4804 and 4808 respectively - were identical, but can easily be differentiated from the machines in the adverts, as they said 'HOOVER' on the fascias, rather than the names ....

 

[matchboxpaul]

I wonder if any of the follow on range survives - the 4824 and 4834? Hopefully somewhere and one day an example of each will be saved.

Regards
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Alan.

Many thanks for posting the Philips brochure - a very smart looking series of machines.

Only discovered a year or two ago, via one single photograph, that the range was warmed over and got the black fascia treatment.
I think the photo machine is a 2000SX ...

 

[matchboxpaul]

... and they had the blue treatment originally.

Do you know if the all button model was introduced with this blue range, or was it a later addition?

Paul

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hoover Auto Jet Dishwashers

heres a link to when I met up with Al to collect his new toys, the Hoover Spper Jet dishwasher and Hotpoint 1504 toploader, few more pics of the Super jet etc..

More Vintage Finds: Hotpoint 1504 & Hoover Superjet

Met up with Al last weekend to pick up another few classic finds for everyone to share @ The Emporium. A rainy day in Cumbria didnt dampen our enthusiasm as we stepped into a vintage timewarp from the early 70`s. This was a newbuild house early 70`s high above the town was situated in a close...

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