kic aka lvz

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"Another oddity mentioned above is Fagor, simply becaus

Obvious. Fagor is a Spanish brand, you can find it only in Spain and France, for sure not @ Comet or @ Currys

link to stories & miracles of FagorBrandtGroup

http://www.fagorbrandt.com/en/

 

[chestermikeuk]

"Fagor is a Spanish brand, you can find it only in Spai

Actually you where more than likely to find it at Comet & Independants because a lot of own brand machines from the 70`s to 90`s where made by Fagor etc...hence in the Haynes manuals ...

Those Phillips washers from the 80`s where one of the best around, especially with the Permag motors & Polypropelyne Drums all with a 10 yr guarantee, they where actually one of the main selling brands after Hotpoint, Hoover, Servis, Zanussi then Phillips.....the independants loved them, Electricity board shops had them badged as their own as well, the dryers where also a great success...AND yes that spin drain is to be seen to be believed......will get a vid done this week to show....talk about a whirlpool vortex!!!

Heres my Electra badged Phillips, Model AWF682, 10lb load, 800rpm variable spin, also have the matching dryer but needs a deep clean have lived in a 60 a day ciggy house!!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoint Defy

Welcome to the club kic (Louis)and what an interesting machine you bring here...I saw the Defy version at a friends house in Melville a few yrs ago, cream fascia, definately wasnt anything to do with the Hotpoint brand over here,

Interesting about the Frigidaire model, which was made by General Motors both here and in France, so who made what for who has been a bit of a mystery...the blue fascia looks similar to the early Fischer & Paykel branding from NZ, I wonder as the early toploaders where based on the Hotpoint UK machine, perhaps there was a franchise / licencing agreement??

What machine do you have & use??

Rob, was your mums machine definately a Frigidaire?? could it have been a New Pol, Caravell or Soverign?? which Comet sold a lot of as own brand....Cheers, Mike

 

[foraloysius]

Nice machine Mike!! Looking forward to a video!

Fagor is sold in the Netherlands too:

http://www.fagor.com/nl/_bin/hol/index.php

 

[aquarius1984]

Philips

As far as I know my Grandad still has the Philips D163 dryer they had when I was a kid.
I always remember it in their previous house only a few cabinets away from the Philco in the kitchen.

One day I will ask for it if he dosnt still use it.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Actually those square toplader with a glass lid were made he

Is it this!?

Multiprogram serie was not with spin speed selector (the particula featured was the BIO timed withh the dedicated knob) which was a features of following models of a line just called PMSystem. The control panel was inox/brown but really never seen with glass lid. The BOL model wash the Italian famous K12, but I heard of a K14 or a K15 just like the K12 but with some features more like the spin speed selector.

http://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/ARCHIVE/VINTAGE/2009/20993x10.htm

 

[kic]

saturn74

Your pic is the almost spot on!~Only needs a rocker switch (left right) the drum I will describe best I can: looking into drum the back had a big circle almost like a tea cup saucer and around it shapes similar to a big leaf... I think 4 or 6 all the way around the "circle". I hope at least one person gets this!?!

 

[newwave1]

Oh how i love those philips machines.

I was lucky enough to use them on several occasions. My dads business partner & his wife inherited a matching set as the one in my picutre which sadly ment they matching zanussis FL811 & I forget the model of the dryer went into storage before being sold :-(

I always remember the philips model woyuldn't allow you to turn the drum anti-clockwise. It locked because of the type of motor it used.

Darren

 

[matchboxpaul]

Absolutely darren.

I too love Philips machines.

The right hand drive, three dial machine posted earlier in the thread is the 1980's Philips model of my dreams.

As a nipper, i always appreciated just how smart they looked. a clean, relatively simple good looking design.

Dont see many about though unfortunately.

Having seen Mikes 'electrilips' workig in full fury I can attest that it is a wonderful machine.
The spin makes for fantastic viewing, as it spins full of water gradually increasing in speed as it drains.
At start of spin, the water swirls all around the drum and over the door, with the permamag motor whine increasing in pitch as speed gathers.
I want one!

Loving the blue facia of the Hotpoint. Not very au fait with this type of machine.
Was Frigidaire the basic design that was cloned, or was the Frigidaire another copy of the same machine?

Cheers
Paul

 

[newwave1]

Ahh yes the delectable spin-drain! The Schulthess commercial machines do this, Which is at my local launderette myself and lavamat_jon went to the 2nd time we met!!

Heres a pic

Darren

 

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Sangiorgio THESI

Here is an image Diomede posted some time ago. Looks very close to the 80s Defy (coin trap, dials, buttons, dispenser)

@ Diomede -IGNIS square TL- yes, actually I was thinking of that very machine!

@ Mike - sorry, I meant one can't find the Fagor badge in UK, not Fagor-made machines. Oddly I saw here in IT a discarded Privileg dishwasher. Ok it's a Zanussi, but the Privileg/Quelle badge is German stuff only

 

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Bauknecht aged like PM system Philips

@ Louis and Mike. This is an early 80s BK. It has nothing to do with Philips washers, yet Philips dishwashers of the age were Bauknecht made (Neunkirchen plant). In the 90s washers still were made in different plants.

When did they started to be the same thing with 2 different badges ?

T.I.A.

(thanks to Matchboxpaul 4 the image)