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Page 15 - Special features
Hotpoint UK Washers & Dryers - 1st Automatic to final New Generation
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Page 16 - Special washing problems
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Ok. That was the user guide. Here are the installation book scans...
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Ok. That was the user guide. Here are the installation book scans...
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Sorry for the double post guys. was a accident.
Anyway, Page 2 - Contents
Anyway, Page 2 - Contents
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Page 3 - A choice of installation
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Page 4 - unpacking and preparing the machine
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Page 5 - Electrical requirements.
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Page 8 - More connecting up
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Page 10(the end) - check list.
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Hi Chris.
Many many thanks for taking the time to scan and post your grandmothers 1502 manual.
Have never had the chance to see inside one of these early top loader instruction manuals before and its certainly a detailed publication.
Explains everything clearly and with excellent pictures and certainly very differnet from the style of manuals that Hotpoint later adopted and ran with, through the 70s and 80s.
Did that woman ever fathom out what to do with that outlet hose, spewing water everywhere?
Both styles are classics in their own right.
Thanks again for posting and very useful to have a copy of a manual in this thread, explaining just how these classic machines worked.
Paul
Many many thanks for taking the time to scan and post your grandmothers 1502 manual.
Have never had the chance to see inside one of these early top loader instruction manuals before and its certainly a detailed publication.
Explains everything clearly and with excellent pictures and certainly very differnet from the style of manuals that Hotpoint later adopted and ran with, through the 70s and 80s.
Did that woman ever fathom out what to do with that outlet hose, spewing water everywhere?
Both styles are classics in their own right.
Thanks again for posting and very useful to have a copy of a manual in this thread, explaining just how these classic machines worked.
Paul
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Hi Phil, Richard and Craig.
Glad that you are enjoying the thread - nearly time to move onto the next chapter and a chapter, for which you had to ask yourself before buying, 'would purple suit my kitchen?'.
Hi Chris in Germany
thanks for reading the thread. The 'load' switch was basically a full load/half load switch and controlled the water level in the machine.
The 'powder' switch was set one way or the other, depending on the type of powder you used. At the time that these machines were being introduced, biological washing powders for automatics were being introduced. If you bought one of these, then the switch would be set to 'bio', resulting in the machine giving a longer soak time in the cycle, allowing the enzymes to do their business.
Set the switch to 'others' and this would be cut short, should you be a user of non-biological powders.
Cheers
Paul
Glad that you are enjoying the thread - nearly time to move onto the next chapter and a chapter, for which you had to ask yourself before buying, 'would purple suit my kitchen?'.
Hi Chris in Germany
thanks for reading the thread. The 'load' switch was basically a full load/half load switch and controlled the water level in the machine.
The 'powder' switch was set one way or the other, depending on the type of powder you used. At the time that these machines were being introduced, biological washing powders for automatics were being introduced. If you bought one of these, then the switch would be set to 'bio', resulting in the machine giving a longer soak time in the cycle, allowing the enzymes to do their business.
Set the switch to 'others' and this would be cut short, should you be a user of non-biological powders.
Cheers
Paul
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1973 - the BIG design change is revealed!
MARCH
Having been late onto the front loader market, with a machine that was proportionally very wrong for what the modern fitted kitchen was dictating and which had the controls in the wrong place, Hotpoint engineers had been working away behind the scenes in the early 1970s on their new series of appliances.
Their new machines would be to the new compact size - even shorter than Hoover's machines, though taller than what Servis had to offer.
The cabinet would be of a strange, virtually unique design, with an all one piece wrap-around top and bodysides and removable front panel, to give full frontal access to the insides of the machine.
Round the back of the machine was a full cover back, though unfortunately made of plastic which over time would crack - definitely an area where costs were cut.
Stylewise, Hotpoint made the brave decision to go with a bold new colour scheme for their machines.
A standard bright white bodshell, with a silver fascia panel and white powder drawer front would be finished off with the addition of switches and a dial in various shades of lilac, mauve and purple.
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the series would be the door, which featured a dark purple door bowl, with a thick chrome surround.
The official name of the colour scheme was 'Amethyst' and the series was officially christened 'LIBERATOR', reusing the name of the laundry products of the English Electric company which, along with Morphy Richards, had just been merged under the name of Hotpoint.
From that point BDA large appliances and vacuum cleaners would be branded Hotpoint, with small appliances being sold under the Morphy Richards brand. English Electric was to be consigned to the history books, though not permanently!
There would, for the first time ever in Hotpoint UK's history, be a tumble dryer too!
MARCH
Having been late onto the front loader market, with a machine that was proportionally very wrong for what the modern fitted kitchen was dictating and which had the controls in the wrong place, Hotpoint engineers had been working away behind the scenes in the early 1970s on their new series of appliances.
Their new machines would be to the new compact size - even shorter than Hoover's machines, though taller than what Servis had to offer.
The cabinet would be of a strange, virtually unique design, with an all one piece wrap-around top and bodysides and removable front panel, to give full frontal access to the insides of the machine.
Round the back of the machine was a full cover back, though unfortunately made of plastic which over time would crack - definitely an area where costs were cut.
Stylewise, Hotpoint made the brave decision to go with a bold new colour scheme for their machines.
A standard bright white bodshell, with a silver fascia panel and white powder drawer front would be finished off with the addition of switches and a dial in various shades of lilac, mauve and purple.
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the series would be the door, which featured a dark purple door bowl, with a thick chrome surround.
The official name of the colour scheme was 'Amethyst' and the series was officially christened 'LIBERATOR', reusing the name of the laundry products of the English Electric company which, along with Morphy Richards, had just been merged under the name of Hotpoint.
From that point BDA large appliances and vacuum cleaners would be branded Hotpoint, with small appliances being sold under the Morphy Richards brand. English Electric was to be consigned to the history books, though not permanently!
There would, for the first time ever in Hotpoint UK's history, be a tumble dryer too!
