supermaticjames
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Hotpoint and Creda were two separate companies until Hotpoint bought Creda in the early 90s.
Hotpoint New Generation Exclusive 1535 and Creda Reversair 37404
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matchboxpaul
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Having spent the last few weekends moving house, I am playing catch up with all the handful of excellent machines that people have managed to acquire.
Congrats to James on both of your finds. I've said it before to you, but wil say it again - remember your frustration, a mere couple of years ago, at not being able to find anything vintage in your neck of the woods? & look at where you are now!
Its great all the machines that you have managed to acquire and that you are in the enviable position of being able to plug and play with every single one of them - a situation that most of us don't find ourselves in.
All power to you.
The 37404 - one of those lived at number 16, operation alongside the very machine that Craid mentioned, in the form of a square door Creda 10500 Electronic de luxe. They are really solid dryers and hope that you manage to get it operating satisfactorily.
The 1535 was the basic Hotpoint/English Electric exclusive model, sold through Comet and Woolworths! Yep, Woolworths sold them apparrently too.
Dont be too troubled by its white door as, to my eyes, it looks perfectly fine and as paulc mentioned works well with the white side strips.
Any luck with testing it yet?
Paul
Congrats to James on both of your finds. I've said it before to you, but wil say it again - remember your frustration, a mere couple of years ago, at not being able to find anything vintage in your neck of the woods? & look at where you are now!
Its great all the machines that you have managed to acquire and that you are in the enviable position of being able to plug and play with every single one of them - a situation that most of us don't find ourselves in.
All power to you.
The 37404 - one of those lived at number 16, operation alongside the very machine that Craid mentioned, in the form of a square door Creda 10500 Electronic de luxe. They are really solid dryers and hope that you manage to get it operating satisfactorily.
The 1535 was the basic Hotpoint/English Electric exclusive model, sold through Comet and Woolworths! Yep, Woolworths sold them apparrently too.
Dont be too troubled by its white door as, to my eyes, it looks perfectly fine and as paulc mentioned works well with the white side strips.
Any luck with testing it yet?
Paul
matchboxpaul
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I moved out of Derby on Tuesday just gone but, before I left, I had to dispose of two woebegone wooden crates that my landlady had in her garage.
On taking them to pieces i discovered an old copy of, I think, the Sunday Express from 1985 when it was still a broadsheet paper.
I thought I'll just check through it, just in case, and on the penultimate page I found an advert that I thought might interest you.
Enjoy!
On taking them to pieces i discovered an old copy of, I think, the Sunday Express from 1985 when it was still a broadsheet paper.
I thought I'll just check through it, just in case, and on the penultimate page I found an advert that I thought might interest you.
Enjoy!
supermaticjames
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Hi Paul,
Good luck with the move, I remember it like yesterday it was only 3 years ago, I didn't really know where to look online for a start but I think Gumtree helped, I found the Hoover and the Supermatic on that. The local free-ads paper has helped too and the local electrical shop has been getting in much better stuff this past year or so compared to when I started out when all they had on offer in the scrap was a measly WM52. The shed is getting a massive doing up too in a few weeks, I feel like starting with a blank canvas.
The Creda is lovely, the motor sounds unique to it which is what I like and although rough around the edges there is still loads of life in it yet. The reversing mechanism needs seeing to but because it doesn't always reverse but its not so much of a problem really.
The Hotpoint/English Electric is a lovely little runner which hasn't seen a lot of use in its past life, nothing wrong with it at all must have been the victim of an upgrade. I boiled it out yesterday and all was perfect. I was iffy about this one at the start since it was basic but it has grown on me now. I wonder if anybody has an EE drawer for it because there is no difference between the two variations of the machine bar the drawer. The white door doesn't bother me now so all is well.
Thank you for sharing that advert with us, I wouldn't mind the matching dryer or the compact even.
James.
Good luck with the move, I remember it like yesterday it was only 3 years ago, I didn't really know where to look online for a start but I think Gumtree helped, I found the Hoover and the Supermatic on that. The local free-ads paper has helped too and the local electrical shop has been getting in much better stuff this past year or so compared to when I started out when all they had on offer in the scrap was a measly WM52. The shed is getting a massive doing up too in a few weeks, I feel like starting with a blank canvas.
The Creda is lovely, the motor sounds unique to it which is what I like and although rough around the edges there is still loads of life in it yet. The reversing mechanism needs seeing to but because it doesn't always reverse but its not so much of a problem really.
The Hotpoint/English Electric is a lovely little runner which hasn't seen a lot of use in its past life, nothing wrong with it at all must have been the victim of an upgrade. I boiled it out yesterday and all was perfect. I was iffy about this one at the start since it was basic but it has grown on me now. I wonder if anybody has an EE drawer for it because there is no difference between the two variations of the machine bar the drawer. The white door doesn't bother me now so all is well.
Thank you for sharing that advert with us, I wouldn't mind the matching dryer or the compact even.
James.
aegokocarat
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My mother had that creda dryer! she bought it second hand of my auntie Irene. When it was working it was briliant (according to mum), but it had a faulty safety switch and everytime the dryer was on, the catch would become soft and the door would open, she used to open the back door and face the dryer outside to vent it. She remembers being in my nans house having a cuppa and seeing some of our washing blow up into the garden because the door had opened, she got rid of it in 1998 months before I was born because it wasnt too safe and my nan had given her a creda reverseair condenser dryer which I grew up with.
Tom
Tom
supermaticjames
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Just a little update. I think the 1535 may have came from Derry, there used to be a Woolworths there for over 36 years.
