Hotpoint - Kimnel Park, North Wales To Close!!!

[chestermikeuk]

Another disasterous day for UK whitegoods, Hotpoint closing Kimnel Park, the home of "New Generation"....in July....this one was coming,but when it does its painful....more jobs for Poland...

A vey sad day indeed, Hoover, Servis and now this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7921557.stm

 

[dyson2drums]

Oooh thats bad!

 

[vintagehoover]

Another one bites the dust...this isn't good :S

 

[aquarius1984]

Just so glad to have a few of the best machines from there in our collection and not the tat they make now.

Important destination from my childhood finally going.

Oh well...

Hotpoints Finest moments with a bit of a rememberance to others......

 

[aquarius1984]

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[aquarius1984]

and the latest item in our collection....

 

[matchboxpaul]

Farewell to the home of the New Generations!

Saw it this evening, just before i left for the train home. what a real shame.

Congratulations to Kinmel Park on producing a fantastic range of machines which offered affordability and reliability.

Servis - Creda - Hoover and now Hotpoint!

What on earth is left?

In a tribute to Hotpoint, this year me and Rob will aim to:

remotor the 9560 Microprofile 1300 De Luxe
restore the 95360 Electronic Super Plus
and
aim to do something else - which is a secret for the time being!

P

 

[aquarius1984]

Not forgetting the purple era too which were made there before the factory was retooled and extended for the New Gens.

 

[aquarius1984]

How the tables turn too when out of the cluster of 10 houses in the street I grew up in 6 Houses chose Hotpoint:

9534 (possibly still going - would love to know and also to know if they still have the Colston Commodore it replaced in their garden shed)

95459 (replaced with a Bosch WF??? 900rpm thing)

9520 (Still Going)

9575 (Possibly still going)

9934 replaced with a WM62 (Funnily the hosue next door to us had the same washer as us at one point)

9537 (Moved away with them)

Which left our other side neighbours with a Zanussi Washcraft, Us with the Electrolux, NDB2 with a round door Bendix and the corner house with a grey panel Zanussi.

I wonder just how many houses out of 10 chose Hotpoint now?

 

[newwave1]

This is a sickening day. I visited that factory in 1997. It was amazing. Thank you hotpoint for being the first machine i sat infront of as a nipper. & delighting me with many memories throughout the years. I've had about 10 hotpoints machines in my collecting years & growing up!

Though one thing i'm glad to say no longer will indesit be able to tarnish your name with made in great britain.

LOADS of my school friends had 95series machines when i was a kid. Including me! Gah. What is the future for whitegoods. I ask ya. What are we going to do when we can no longer get spares for our classic machines?!

Thanks again hotpoint.

Darren

 

[mayfan69]

Sad Day indeed

A very sad for you guys...sorry to hear about this.

Well...Australia no longer has a whitegoods industry either: Fisher & Paykel have clsoed their plants and Electrolux closed the Simpson plant back in 2006...very sad!

Cheers
Leon

 

[arrrooohhh]

This is sad news indeed.

Hey Darren, time to start stockpiling parts now while they are readily available.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Stockpiling Those Parts!!!

Very true indeed, better get all we can before oblivion!!!