Hotpoint UK circa 1963 brochure & other pics

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoint Spiralator

Oh My Paul. you can rely on Hotpoint for detail, and those diagrams give so much detail with simplicity!!!...So they wernt too bothered about identifying other "Inferior Wash Systems! ...That Black Agi looks FAB if it ever was produced..at least we found the turquoise model...

 

[liberator1509]

Fantastic!

Hi Paul

Thanks so much for posting this - really a great find, and it brings back memories of the brochure we had from 1968 when my parents bought their 1502 - it is (alas) since lost. News to me as well that the 1500 was only 850rpm, though I wonder if this was an early or pre-production catalogue? 1963 seems a year too early for the 1500. Apart from updated styling, and the new Supermatic, the catalogue is almost identical to the 1968 version - I remember pouring over the cutaways for hours!!

Interesting to observe just how well engineered the 1500 was, with double bracing on the chassis, the enormous 4-pole motor and cast-iron counter balance...a far cry from the 9605 of 35 years later, with everything engineered down to price...

Brilliant find - thank you!

D

PS - loving the beehives and the little punches at the competition! (Duck and cover for the Keymatic-fan rebuff)

 

[ozzie908]

For those that may know...!

Did the agitator in the twin tub become the spiraclean when the tub became round instead of square?

Also does anyone remember a similar twin tub to the supermatic but instead of a filter tray it had a brush in a plastic tube protruding from the back right corner of the tub??? if you do what was it?

Austin

 

[hotpoint95622]

hotpoint 95622

Thanks Paul for posting this fantastic post.

Lee

 

[keymatic]

Hi Paul, thank you for scanning the brochure, unfortunately i have been sooo lazy, since moving to Reading and haven't obtained a new printer/scanner yet, otherwise i would have scanned the same brochure i obtained a few weeks ago. I think it is the best brochure Hotpoint produced, so informative.

The only thing I really can't understand with the new supermatic in the brochure is on the early models of the 1420, they reverted back to the filter clean nozzle & valve box on the side of the wash tub, this is where you were mean't to empty the wash tub from and not from the nozzle, however on the later 1400's, this was the preferred method of emptying via the nozzle. I have the instruction booklets for both 1400 & 1420, and both recommend this way. The empty via the box came about on the first Supermatic's as the filter clean nozzle was not made of plastic but a kind of reinforced rubber, and would not have held a hose being pushed on to it.

Thanks again for the scans, they are great.
Keith

 

[keymatic]

Hi Austin,

In reply to your message regarding a similar twin tub with a brush filter, it was the English Electric Liberator Twin of the late 60's. This had as you mention a push in tube which had a box on the end of it which held a brush inside. This machine was very similar in styling to the Hotpoint 1450.

Regards
Keith

 

[ozzie908]

Keith

Thank you for your reply I was not aware of English Electrics version so what about the Spiraclean agitator was that changed when Hotpoint changed the tub shape?

Austin

 

[chestermikeuk]

"the little punches at the competition!"

Hi David, yes...I wonder if they could have gotten away with it today?? well of all the nuerve - have never heard of Servis as frothing...unless you turn the wash pump on...LOl

 

[chestermikeuk]

Brush Filter

Hi Austin, the model as Keith says was the English Electric twinny, and bright red at that - heres Kevins example, but missing the brush filter....

 

[ozzie908]

Well done !

Thats the one I remember it now ! I converted one of those into a filter tray as the brush had worn out it meant removing a spout of a broken hotty and putting it under the console it took a while but I did it and also changed the agitator it was still going in 83 when it was sold on by its owner.

Austin

 

[chestermikeuk]

Types of Agitator

Did change over time, the leaflet infers that Empress, Countess & twinnys would be all the same, but the Empress with the Hex Tub and more squarer fins it had the more currents (IMHO), saying that the mini Princess has the same agi as the countess and with the smaller tub doesnt half wash with force..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Awaiting

The Return of the Hotpoint 1501 which is at Marks workshop being overhauled, little hole in the outer vitreous tub and general service...

 

[supermaticjames]

Amazing brochure Paul!

Delight to look at indeed. Some new thing's to learn about too and those cutaway's are outstanding. Shame no 1420's are known to exist, would be interesting to see what difference the "Powder Clutch" made in terms of relief on the motor and noise etc.

The blue "Filter Pan" is lovely as is the black "Spiraclean". The blue "Spiraclean" is nice too though!

Paul you have an email too.

James.

 

[paulc]

Thanks

for posting that brochure Paul. I to assumed the 1500 spun at 1050rpm.

 

[matchboxpaul]

No worries Ken - glad that the brochure has proved an interesting read.

Always aim to please.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Mike.

Totally agree with you about the brochure. Laden with information and character, have to say that it is one of my faves.

Certainly seems that they went politely for the jugular of the other manufacturers, but without offering them any free advertising by naming them. Though the word 'zones' does get dropped in there.

But as I say, done ever so politely.
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi David

You are probably right about 1964, though am sure that this was a production brochure.

Introduction dates for the early machines are difficult to come by because these are the machines for which service manuals are a tad elusive.
Even the later ones, with their tendency to be updates and cover many of the older models, fail to mention the 1500, 1501 and 1502.
Sufficiently different to not warrant inclusion with the likes of the 1504, 1507 and 1518?

As a result I have the date 1963 in my spreadsheet for the 1500 and 1964/65 for the 1501, though it probably should read 1964 for the 1500 and 1965 for the 1501.

When Mike gets his 1501 back from Mark, it will be interseting to try and fathom its spin spped - 850rpm or 1050rpm? - and get the date code off it too!

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Austin.

Cant ask his permission, as I dont think that Kevin is a member on here, but over the last few years I have accumulated some other pictures of his EE 4151 Liberator Twin Tub.

Certainly looks different for its red agitator - I never knew it had a brush to catch the fluff though, as always assumed that it just had a red filter tray.
More new stuff learnt!

Anyway - piccies below....

 

[aquarius8000]

Hotpoint automatic is a manualin my collection. 1969 my gran owned before her supermatic.

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Keith.

My computer cannot stand my scanner - takes hours to scan a handful of pages, as my geriatric computer builds the pages line by bloomin line. Ohhhh the agony.

As such, I tend to photograph my brochures and tend to get better results than scanning them. Not being a dab hand with the scanner, when I have indulged I always manage to get awful colour contrast, as well as seeing the grain of the paper and also seeing traces of whats on the other side of the page.

So I simply set my camera to detail setting and try to make sure that I have a constant, equal supply of normal daylight. The results are what you see with the eye which, as far as I am concerned, is a lot more pleasing.
Artificial light is a no no, as it casts an awful orange glow on the page.

A lot more quicker than scanning - for me at any rate.

I have some exploded diagrams of the 1400 and 1420 in my files - will try and photograph them to see what set up they had for emptying.
Will try and post them soon.

Paul