Kenmore in Europe?

[foraloysius]

While walking through town and doing a bit of windowshopping at a used appliance shop I saw a frontloader that I hadn't seen before. Much to my surprise there was a Kenmore label on this machine. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the label on the detergent drawer is definitely a Kenmore label. This one is much newer than the machine PeterH770 has. I bet this one is made in Italy too. Strange though it appears here, after all Kenmore is a Sears label and we don't have Sears overhere.

 

[newwave1]

looks just like a Euro Whirlpool!

 

[washboy2005]

LOL the door looks like the newer zanussi ones too

 

[toggleswitch]

Sears in this country offered front-loaders YEARS ago, but more as a space-saver, and probably for speical under-counter (workbench) installations. I don't know who made it for them. I do know that it never caught on, then.

 

[petek]

I was thinking maybe it belonged to some family that was transferred over there for a few years but then it wouldn't make much sense to take it with them if it's 120v. Now you have to go in and ask!

 

[toggleswitch]

With value-added tax structure in some countries in Europe, it might make sense to take it over there. My mother's family came to visit from Greece and bought a German washing machine from here to ship back. Crossing the Atlantic TWICE (the machine that is) it was STILL cost-effective for them.

IIRC internatinal visitors living here do well in the cash economy in this country. They effectively don't pay income taxes, because those taxes (in this country) are not built into the price of goods as they are in parts of Europe.

 

[veg-o-matic]

OT...

Took me a while, but I finally figured out it's your fingers that are reflected in the glass!

Nice sweater, too!

veg

 

[foraloysius]

LOL! It's not a sweater, it's the glove on my other hand.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Whoops!

Nice glove!

veg

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Non saprei veramente dire...

I've beed standing looking to this pic for a while, but honestly I wouldn't know what brand it might be...

Very probably, it's a Zanussi machine... it would has been produced in Italy too, but I couldn't say what brant it might be...Rex, Ignis... Indesit?!?!?! I would say it's a middle '90 years mechine...isn't it?

Here is't a very common washer...nice.

Otherwise, it's an American wahser...LOL!

The righter knob it's the timer, the second on left it's the thermostate... is it the third one for the spin-speed selection?

Bye
Diomede

 

[lavamat_jon]

It's a late-90s Whirlpool-made machine. Whirlpool still sell an integrated version here in the UK, which you can see at the link below. The door is similar to that found on Bauknecht machines in Germany.

Jon

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/514_238309.html

 

[toggleswitch]

No Kenmore brand nor Sears in Europe?

Clutch the pearls.

Still, I could get my EC citizenship in Greece in about five minutes and live happily ever after. Maybe next year.

Here is a pretty store of theirs in Brooklyn, NY

 

[cleanteamofny]

Toggle,

You really get around!
2 months ago you was in Hoetown, oops Harlem and now you in Brooklyn.
You done'em all and saving none for us.......

GREADY!

LOL

 

[toggleswitch]

oh sugar.
Me sowwy.
I save some for you.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Ohh thank you, and I got to see Sears today when I went to the gym for the first time in three years on Tilden Ave.

Now I wonder if I can sit on the Kenmore during the spin cycle, how many calories will I burn?

 

[toggleswitch]

Toggle, You really get around!

HMMM and this is news to you because...............?