IGNIS!!! Mio dolce ricordo

[vivalalavatrice]

(I know 1974 is a Imperial year but my the topics is IGNIS,sorry)

I remeber my aunt old washer! The most exciting washer I ever seen! It was a 1974 IGNIS TL H-AXIS! I've been fascinating since I saw by her...

When my aunt took it away, I ask her to let me have at least the engine, in order to save the "heart" of what had been somthing of very special for me... and that would have become only a sweet dream ;-)

Now Ignis have become a Whirlpool Brand, and since it happened I couldn't find again anywhere any Ignis brochure/catalogue, the last I have collected is of the 1991!

If anyone of you could help me to find at least the way to have the new Ignis brochure/catalogue, I would be very happy to thanks her/him, but better it would be the best gift for me to have at least only a picture of that old washer I saw the last in the 1989...

 

[vivalalavatrice]

No answer...

Like so I have to say that none knows about what I'm asking for... Well I doesn't matter... but I'm hopful)

 

[foraloysius]

Ignis was never a big brand overhere in the Netherlands and there were hardly brochures available. I have no Ignis brochure in my collection. At the moment I don't even know if Ignis is still sold in the Netherlands, I haven't seen an Ignis appliance in a store for quite a while.

My suggestion is to contact the Ignis company and ask for a brochure, wouldn't that be the easiest thing to do?

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Nothing to do...

What a sadness...
Louis, I did like you said. Ignis would to be asked for to Whirlpool here, but no answer... ;-((

I looked for it anywhere on-line... not found!

Is that machine only a remeber of my past? I can't imagine is really like so... The 90's new model is IGNIS AWF 638 either unfoundable!

Well... if it were like so I renounce.

Here you are a link of the only part of that washer you can find: the inner tub lid handle... I remeber that the inner tub lid was curved and it slided on the right pulling that handle...

Good Bye
Diomede

http://www.geriel.it/web/catalog/articles.asp?sett=2&famiglia=88&sottofamiglia=12&marchio=IGNIS

 

[foraloysius]

Diomede,

Was that washer wider than the modern European frontloaders? I remember a toploader that had the drum in the machine like the Staber. And I think it had a control panel at the back that looked a little like the American toploaders. Is that the machine you mean?

Louis

 

[vivalalavatrice]

YES YES YES!!!!!

Louis,YOU GOT IT!
I dont' really know how can I thank you, indeed!
Is exactly that machine you're thinking at!
60cm wide, Satber type drum, rear control panel, some chromated edge...

MY DREAMS MACHINE!!!!! )))))))) Dou you know it? Have you ever seen it? Have you ever used it!

Sorry for the cheekness of my questions but you can't imagine how deeply I am looking for a machine like that... Once I found one in the trash but I was walking so how could I pick it up at home?

It had a brown/amber plastic case lid without switch, under which you found the dispensers and the curved sliding outer tub lid on which was mounted the switch (but I don't know how). There were not any isulation between the outer tub and the case, in fact you could see the springs suspension if you watched under the top from the top opening. No springs there were for the inner tub lids (as now happens), a very articulated shutting system held the two lids of the inner tub together...that was a very big inner tub opening!!!

Some other models were different in the exterior shaping but the drum apparatus was the same, the same fascinating sliding curved lid...Lastly my aunt had to use a peg to keep it closed because the very hard vibrations made it sliding till to open! I laughed such a lot looking at a washer keept closed with a peg...but it was hard to do differently!

If is that the machine I have just described you mean, let me know how can I get any information about it, some pics, a brochure, something else about it!

THANK YO VERY MUCH!!!
Good Bye
Diomede

 

[foraloysius]

I have only seen such a machine once and have never used one. I'm not sure it's exactly the same model as you are looking for. The one I saw was on the roadside near a recycling company. It dumped there to be recycled. It must have been in the late eighties/early nineties that I saw this machine. I remember it was indeed a 60cm wide machine and I also remember the sliding inner lid. IIRC the control panel was blue or something, the rest of the machine was white. And I think this was a machine with only pushbuttons, no dials. Can it be it had only 6 cycles?

I don't have any further information, no pictures and no brochures either. It was just the one time I saw this machine and remember it because it was late at night that I saw it and was able to have a closer look at it. I even opened the machine and so I saw that there was a sliding lid.

Louis

 

[vivalalavatrice]

That was her...

Yes Louis, when you say:

- blu control panel/white the rest --> it had blu control panel and white the rest!

- late eighties/early nineties --> was a seventies model designed to last for nearly 20 years: my aunt bought it in the 1972 when she got married, and disposed it in the 1992 exactly twenty years later, exaclty the period you are refering at!

- pushbuttons/no dial --> A) early models had such little dial knobs (timer and thermostate) that if you saw it by night it had to be very difficult to see them, perhaps it lost them either(it was a problem of those model anyway B) later models instead had the knobs on the top of the rear control panel, so you saw only the display. Yes, it could have even only 6 cycle, because it was not a very sophisticated machines

It has been produced until 2001 and I can say it because I saw a very similar model to the reatiler when we went there to purchase our new Whirlpool EuroTL. It was always 60cm wide (I think the last 60cm wide EuroTL with Hoover SpazioTop), but completely white (no brown plastic lid more), plastic plane outer tub lid (no more sliding otuer tub lid), only the exterior aspect was the same in the measures as the old model. A label on the frotn panel was saying:

"Più grande, Più bella, Più richiesta"
"Bigger, Nicer, more wanted"

It meant that people who had it, had appreaciated it either! And wanted it again...

 

[toggleswitch]

bigger, better more requested/wanted.
PERFECT!

 

[foraloysius]

Diomede,

I remember the cycles were chosen by the pushbuttons, but Í can't remember if they were on top. I also can't remember if there was a timer, but I don't think so. I only saw this machine once and it was late at night under a street lantern. And it was over 15 years ago. I'm surprised that these machines were made until 2001, never saw one although I did quite some searching on the internet. Are you watching eBay for it regurarly?

BTW, Ardo still makes a 60cm wide toploader.

http://www.ardo.it/dettProd.aspx?idProd=48

 

[vivalalavatrice]

GREAT!

Thank you so much for the link! ) Although I know that machine I didn't absolutely know that it were made by Ardo. I saw it few times to those little store's reatailers (this is not a brand sold in the big shop), but I didn't take care to the brand...

Of course that's not like the lovely old IGNIS, but anyway is a cool machine, if I remeber well there would be also an old model of a machine like that (or it's just that?) with the control panel hide UNDER the lid, but no sliding outertub lid and no chromo rear control panel at all...

Yes, I'm looking for the old Ignis on ebay reaguraly but none found since now... :-(

Have a look to this one, it's a PDF catalogue of the newest Hoover washers (they were Zerowatt): SpazioTop H9AS is a model like the ones we're talking about, but while the others birth already as a TL washer, the philoshopy of this machine is to maintain the same features as possible as the FL ones, changing only the loading system, and here you are a key of the solution where you're in trouble with the depth.

I'm hopeful anyway...
Good Bye
Diomede

http://www.hoover.it/pdf/2006/TOP.pdf

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Nearly got it...

Today I've been to UniEuro (one of the largest appliances retailer in Italy), and bored of the many times I asked to Whrilpool if they could send me a IGNIS catalogue without any answer, I decided to become a bit more cheecky: I ASKED THE CATALOGHE TO THE SALESCLERCK!

I dont' remember to have been doing like that any more since I started to ask them by e-mail directly to the appliances producers, or dowlodading *.pdf.

Do you want to know the answer???
"Mi spiace, ma non posso darglielo..." = "Sorry, but I can't give it to you..."

GRRR!!! I knew that salesclerks when they have only one brochure left they don't give it to you to don't stay without untiil a new one orded to the representmen... but that's the news: "Da qualche tempo, i cataloghi sono solo in consultazione punto vendita, non si posso più dare a i clienti..." = "Since few time, the catalogues are for retailers' consultants only, can't give them to customers more..."

PPAHH! I was still collapsing, heraing those words... no catalogue for customers more?!?!?" That's a very BAD SAD news for me... :-(((

She said then "se vuole le faccio una fotocopia?" = "Would you like me to make a photocopy for you?"

THE ANSWER CANNOT BE EITHER THAN...YES!!!!!!

At the end that's what I got, whether I did'nt get the really IGNIS TL, at least I have two photocopies of the only three models left of the IGNIS TL WASHERS production...
For tomorrow I'll scan the two sheets and I'll show you...

I think it can be considered a very little step ahead...

Good Night
Diomede