Phil . . .
The car in your illustration is a '60s Zil, which was the TOL Russion car, hand built for only the very top of the Party brass. As such, I'm sure those who were chauffeured had no laundry equipment of their own but rather had staff! Most likely said staff had imported laundry equipment, although I'm guessing on that one.
Zil has an interesting history, in that the first ones from the '40s (then called Zis rather than Zil) were built in the Soviet Union from equipment that came from Packard, and were virtual copies of prewar Senior Series Packards. Eventually they evolved on their own. I've seen the model illustrated and while it may look a bit like a '62 Caddy the scale is very odd: the hood is about the height of a Suburban hood so it looks rather like the '62 Caddy body was stretched over a Suburban chassis. I hate to think what a similar copy of an American automatic washer from the '60s would look like, but it sure wouldn't fit in any normal laundry!
It is worth remembering that while Soviet consumer goods lagged behind those from the West, there is a history of good engineering in Russia when there has been adequate budget and time, particularly in military aircraft. Too bad they couldn't have done some good automatics back in the day as it might have been very interesting.
