Yay Mike!
I believe Keymatics were still being sold when my parents bought their first Hoover washer in 1982 - the installation manual has a picture of teh control panels for the machines in the 1982 range, and the Keymatic was the 2nd model down, with a machine with a programme selector dial and timeline display as the top model, and our model A3110, which was the 1100 spin timer model, with the fast/half/woollens spin buttons

. There was also an 800rpm version of the A3110, but it didnt have a woollens button.
My nana also ahd a version of teh washer we had, but from the 1972. Again, it had the programme dial with cottons/synthetics/woollens spin buttons, but it was slightly smaller than our Hoover washer, and also instead of a door release pushbutton on the control panel, it had a slider to the right of the door that you pulled across to release the door. And of course, had that infamous Hoover drum (with the small hole in the back, and 3 sausage shaped lines between each paddle), which was still in use on the New Wave machines until Hoover were finally bought by Candy in the late 90s :-(. I have such fond memories of these machines, such a shame they're not around anymore :-(. My nana now has a Hotpoint WM25 from 1996/1997 and she said it is nowhere near as good as her old Hoover was at washing. In fact, she only got rid of the Hoover because she won the Hotpoint in a raffle, otherwise she'd probably still have it to this day

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I've probably said before, but my Grandma had a 1960's version of the Hotpoint TL - it's similar to the 70s version on your site, with the temperature dial, programme dial, timeline progress indicators, and buttons for hevy soil/rinse hold/short spin etc. It was a very cool machine, but it got replaced when I was about 5 or 6 so don't remember *too* much about it. A Hotpoint 1993 Aquarius 800 (9528 i think the number is) replaced the TL.
I've always loved looking through your Yahoo photo album Mike, you have quite a collection that I envy! Maybe you should host the convention next year :-D.
Take care,
Jon
