Love those machines
Some of my favourites of Hoovers, still had the better (IMO) programming of the older machines (in comparison to the energy control series) and personally I find them some of the best looking.
We used one just like that in a holiday cottage in Somerset back in 1996, Mum found a stray sock she'd forgotten to put in and stopped it to open the door, problem was it was on Delicates to the water was halfway up the door (she "didn't notice" apparently lol) you can imagine the time it took to get all that mopped up!
Matt