matchboxpaul
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D6196 sees us through to 1985 - will post those later in the week.
Paul
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Hoover UK Washers & Dryers - 1st Keymatic to Final Electron
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matchboxpaul
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p.s here is the preserved model A3254 Electron 800 - picked up as scrap, for a tenner, a replacement chrome door trim just awaits fitting...
ozzie908
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Crease guard button
Is for when using the delicate cycles at the last rinse the machine stops and remains full of water thus suspending the clothes to prevent creasing !
When you wish to remove the laundry from the washer you press the crease guard button and it advances the timer to drain/slow spin.
Austin
Is for when using the delicate cycles at the last rinse the machine stops and remains full of water thus suspending the clothes to prevent creasing !
When you wish to remove the laundry from the washer you press the crease guard button and it advances the timer to drain/slow spin.
Austin
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The last few models have jogged my memory a bit. I do remember my mum having the Hoover Electronic 800 with the matchbox style rocker switch. The fascia was in brown if I remember. I remember that the dial sometimes stuck slightly on the rinse part of F (woolens) so it would fill and empty at the same time. Wasn't a great machine, very noisy and prone to spinning out of balance. I remember the washer needing a new pump, my dad replaced it, and with a drum full of wet washing, my mum turned the dial to G (final spin), but she turned it one click past the G, so you can guess..... The machine went straight into spin. The washer must have jumped a foot in the air a few times, and the door eventually flew open. The door catch had been smashed. My mum lost her rag a bit, wheeled out the trusty 60's Hoovermatic from the shed and used that for a week until she purchased a second hand Colston automatic washer-dryer.....another horrid machine. After that, she decided to buy a brand new washer for the first time since her "bottom drawer" Colston Concorde twin tub in 1975. One of the early Whirlpool washers with the push in dial. I seem to remember there was an exact same machine on the market at the time but badged Philips-Whirlpool. Can't remember the model.
my mum had the electron 800 a3264!! panel colour was like british racing green w ith gold trim on the door!! purchased from rumbelows!! powder drawer spring rusted away!! machine lasted 11 years with only a motor,door rubber and soap drawer to drum rubber needing repair/replacement! died of old age replaced by tricity bendix caw1000. the gold trim was on the door glue wore off so trim would tap away when machine spun!! mum was,nt happy when i tugged the trim off.
mattywashboy
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">My grandmother in the UK had a second hand <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A3354 Electron 800 for about two years IIRC. This was her first Automatic she had bought after going through a few Hoover wringers and then a Servis Supertwin which she absolutely loved, sadly banished to the coal shed after its spinner motor died. I wonder if it is still there, i hope it is!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The A3354 she loved because of its Automatic quality, she could just start it and leave it and go to work down't pub (which was called The Peggy Tub in Stocksbridge near Sheffield, coincidence much?) and come back and it was finished. As time went on she used the Delay Start dial, i remember she used to turn it to 12 before she went to work in the evenings, come home, go to bed around midnight and by the time she got up at 6am it was on what she used to call its 'middle spin' (the machine span twice in the cottons bit, once in the between the four rinses and the final 800spin).</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">She used programs C and J mainly. C was 95* for all her sheets towels and nighties and such which could stand that temp. J was Minimum Iron 50* for all her skirts, blouses and bras and such. She occasionally used the White Nylon program for her net curtains (which got heavily abused due to her chain smoking 30 Berkley Red a day!) I remember she made sure they went in folded neatly as she reckoned they had more chance coming out folded.......riiiiight. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">She never used the soap dispenser button release, not sure wether she knew what it did to be honest, she always just grabbed underneath it and pulled. Crease Guard button was never used either, she just got me to 'get up and shift wesher on will ya love'. This phrase became more prominent when its timer motor conked out and had to be manually shifted on through its cycle all the time, bless her for putting up with it although she only did her washing when i was around on the weekend because her arthritis was so bad it was easier to get me to take care of shifting it on instead of her having to get up and down all the time.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Its amazing when you see these things how much you remember as you start to think, like a few memories in the back of the mind come out stretch their little memory legs haha, great. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Reminds me of being a kid again, i love it!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I'll be back there in the UK in November this year, I think she said shes got an Indesit now, wonder what I am going to make of that!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Here is the great woman when she came for recent visit to us in Australia, bless her she taught me everything i know about how to wash properly, using hot temps and good detergents and the benefits of a high speed spin dry!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Matt</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The A3354 she loved because of its Automatic quality, she could just start it and leave it and go to work down't pub (which was called The Peggy Tub in Stocksbridge near Sheffield, coincidence much?) and come back and it was finished. As time went on she used the Delay Start dial, i remember she used to turn it to 12 before she went to work in the evenings, come home, go to bed around midnight and by the time she got up at 6am it was on what she used to call its 'middle spin' (the machine span twice in the cottons bit, once in the between the four rinses and the final 800spin).</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">She used programs C and J mainly. C was 95* for all her sheets towels and nighties and such which could stand that temp. J was Minimum Iron 50* for all her skirts, blouses and bras and such. She occasionally used the White Nylon program for her net curtains (which got heavily abused due to her chain smoking 30 Berkley Red a day!) I remember she made sure they went in folded neatly as she reckoned they had more chance coming out folded.......riiiiight. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">She never used the soap dispenser button release, not sure wether she knew what it did to be honest, she always just grabbed underneath it and pulled. Crease Guard button was never used either, she just got me to 'get up and shift wesher on will ya love'. This phrase became more prominent when its timer motor conked out and had to be manually shifted on through its cycle all the time, bless her for putting up with it although she only did her washing when i was around on the weekend because her arthritis was so bad it was easier to get me to take care of shifting it on instead of her having to get up and down all the time.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Its amazing when you see these things how much you remember as you start to think, like a few memories in the back of the mind come out stretch their little memory legs haha, great. </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Reminds me of being a kid again, i love it!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I'll be back there in the UK in November this year, I think she said shes got an Indesit now, wonder what I am going to make of that!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Here is the great woman when she came for recent visit to us in Australia, bless her she taught me everything i know about how to wash properly, using hot temps and good detergents and the benefits of a high speed spin dry!</span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Matt</span></span>
mattywashboy
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hey quick question guys
just looking through this thread again i noticed the Hoover Selectamatic, never seen one of these before, can anyone explain how the Selectamatic system worked? I'm guessing its something to do with the timer and you select a letter and press start and that dial does not move its the timeline in the console which indicates the sequence. Am i right?
just looking through this thread again i noticed the Hoover Selectamatic, never seen one of these before, can anyone explain how the Selectamatic system worked? I'm guessing its something to do with the timer and you select a letter and press start and that dial does not move its the timeline in the console which indicates the sequence. Am i right?
paulc
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Matchboxpaul
Thanks for posting such wonderful pics. I must say I love the half panel machines but then I have always been a sucker for BOL machines!
Thanks for posting such wonderful pics. I must say I love the half panel machines but then I have always been a sucker for BOL machines!
matchboxpaul
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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?....
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
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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
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
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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....
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
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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...
Gary has done a couple of videos of Mathew's machine and they are uploaded on youtube - link below...
matchboxpaul
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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...
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
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You will see my thinking with the misnumbered A3332...
....when the next model up was the A3344 Energy Control de luxe...
....when the next model up was the A3344 Energy Control de luxe...
matchboxpaul
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and the next model the A3346 Electron 800...
matchboxpaul
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A3348 Electron 800 de luxe...
matchboxpaul
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A3350 Electron 1100 de luxe...
aquarius8000
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Evening paul. are you going to cover the logics?
matchboxpaul
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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...
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
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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
In time, I will do a Logic and Ecologic thread.
Paul
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Thank you paul
matchboxpaul
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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....
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
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D6216 Electron Dryer de luxe was TOTR and congratulations to Mark on his new acquisition!
matchboxpaul
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to match the Computer Control 1100..
model D6228 was introduced in the 'In White' scheme...
model D6228 was introduced in the 'In White' scheme...
matchboxpaul
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Will do the exclusives soon!
Thanks for viewing.
Paul
Thanks for viewing.
Paul
matchboxpaul
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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 ...
The ubiquitous A3350 Electron 1100 de luxe ...
matchboxpaul
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and finally restored the weekend just gone, after about two years of dormancy, is our A3308 Computer Control 1100...
matchboxpaul
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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)...
This dryer has since been passed on and is in the safe custodianship of Mathew (keymatic3203)...
keymatic3203
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Back to earlier in the decade,
The keymatic A3112, in full Brushed stainless steel effect.
This isn't an exclusive, just one that over the years the lacquer has been warn off, but after initial disapointment at it not being mint, I think it would look quite contempory in a run of gloss white units and a stainless steel oven etc.
I personally would like to remove the british bulldog, as it is quite warn and fade, I think the machine would look better without it, what do you think?
Mathew
The keymatic A3112, in full Brushed stainless steel effect.
This isn't an exclusive, just one that over the years the lacquer has been warn off, but after initial disapointment at it not being mint, I think it would look quite contempory in a run of gloss white units and a stainless steel oven etc.
I personally would like to remove the british bulldog, as it is quite warn and fade, I think the machine would look better without it, what do you think?
Mathew
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