Hotpoint UK circa 1963 brochure & other pics

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Hi all.

I recently managed to acquire a copy of what I think is the 1963 brochure for Hotpoint's offerings.

It really is a superb brochure, full of information, diagrams and wonderful photographs of their machines.

Have also come into possession of some wonderful photographs of Hotpoints offerings, made to the UK's public via the pages of the KAYS Catalogue Company.

Happy viewing...

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Hotpoints 1st automatic, in the form of the Model 1500 'AUTOMATIC' - the machine that started off 30 odd years of Hotpoint toploader production...

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Learnt something new, when reading all the info on this machine.
I never knew that the 1500 spun at 850rpm - always assumed that they spun at 1050rpm, like all the other subsequent models did.

Had always wondered what the difference was between the 1500 and its visually identical replacement, in the form of the 1501.
Maybe it was the 1501 that ushered in the 1050rpm spin?

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Again something learnt - the 1420 appears to have been equipped with the Empress/Countess agitator and NOT the spiralator!

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The spinner and wringerless Countess.

Note how the lady has her hand strategically placed over the capped off hole, where the wringer would normally be slotted (I assume it was capped off)...

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Clearly specifies the 1420 as having the same agitator as the Countess and Empress.

Seems that the first spiralator-ed was model 1450 and not the 1420 - unless it was replaced part way through the production run?

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Frothing, indeed.

Speaking for all of the Yanks that treasure Hotpoints:

 

When an Englishman scans and posts vintage brochures, especially ones as beautiful as these, the gates of New Jerusalem swing wide open to honor and to welcome as Leontine a soul as yours. 79 virgins are also waiting for you in an alternate reality.

 

Much obliged.
 
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)
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 

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