Hoover UK Washers & Dryers - 1st Keymatic to Final Electron

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Sudsreturn, Scott and Matt.

Thanks for posting your memories of the more obscure members of the elctron family.
The pictures posted of them are the only ones I have, but the one problems with Hoover Instruction manuals is that they are black and white and tend to be of very varying photographic quality, to put it mildly!

Out of focus, washed out or just plain too dark, so as to be virtually unable to see anything at all seem to have been the order of the day through the 1980s - the cover photo for the A3108 is ridiculous!

As such, memories are an important part of learning about said machines and thankyou to Scott for telling us about the A3264!
A full British Racing Green panel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with gold trim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never knew that at all and its impossible to tell from the manual photo that its anything other than ordinary.

Something like this then?....

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Matt.

I dont know of many people who used the powder push button and yet they still all got broken.
Much easier just to grab under the facia and pull - much simpler.

You will have to show your gran this thread and see if she recognises her old machine.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Forgot to mention Matt.

The Selectamatic!!!!

The A3064 used the lightshow from the A3062 Keymatic for its display, in the form of individual lights illuminating symbols, whereas the A3114 was a copy of the A3112 Keymatic and used a glowing timeline arrangement for its display.

The timeline light is on a hinged arm, which is dragged across the machine, as the programme progresses.
A pictures of the internals of Mathew's (keymatic3203) A3114 Selectamatic is below.

Behind the Selectamatic dial is essentially a permanently fitted, cylindrical keyplate, covered in cutouts.
As you turn the dial, your are mimicking turning a Keymatic keyplate in your hand and pushing it into the machine.
Once selected, in the same way you push the keyplate into a Keymatic, you push the dial inwards on the Selectamatic.
The machine then does the click click clickety click thing, as the reader identifies the notches and activates the programme.

The indicator arm is attached above the timer, towards the back of the machine....

 

[matchboxpaul]

The timeline with the glowing green line faintly showing.

Gary has done a couple of videos of Mathew's machine and they are uploaded on youtube - link below...

 

[matchboxpaul]

1985 & the 3rd Series of Electrons

Starting with the bargain basement but, as with the A3252, very quiet (induction fitted) A3332 Energy Control.

I have always thought that someone made a mistake when typing up the model number of this machine and that the mistake stuck - I am sure this machine was meant to be the A3342...

 

[matchboxpaul]

You will see my thinking with the misnumbered A3332...

....when the next model up was the A3344 Energy Control de luxe...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the next model the A3346 Electron 800...

 

[matchboxpaul]

A3348 Electron 800 de luxe...

 

[matchboxpaul]

A3350 Electron 1100 de luxe...

 

[aquarius8000]

Evening paul. are you going to cover the logics?

 

[matchboxpaul]

Top of the Range!

But why on earth it wasnt numbered A3352 is beyond me.

For some reason, Hoover numbered this one as the A3308 Computer Control 1100...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Possibly Chris, but I will have to sort the photo library out a bit before doing so.

In time, I will do a Logic and Ecologic thread.
Paul

 

[aquarius8000]

Thank you paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

The Dryers.....

Basic model D6214 Electron Dryer.

No angled facia dryers were ever produced to match the 3rd Series Electron washers so, if we were being picky, we could say that the A3332/44/46/48/50 and 08 nver had true matching dryers to go with them.

They do look smart nonetheless....

 

[matchboxpaul]

D6216 Electron Dryer de luxe was TOTR and congratulations to Mark on his new acquisition!

 

[matchboxpaul]

to match the Computer Control 1100..

model D6228 was introduced in the 'In White' scheme...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Will do the exclusives soon!

Thanks for viewing.
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

But before I sign off a couple of pics of machines myself and Rob own, from tonights series.

The ubiquitous A3350 Electron 1100 de luxe ...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and finally restored the weekend just gone, after about two years of dormancy, is our A3308 Computer Control 1100...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and here is the preserved D6214 Electron Dryer, which I purchased at the same time as the Computer Control 1100.
This dryer has since been passed on and is in the safe custodianship of Mathew (keymatic3203)...