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Great machines! Thanks for sharing these. The Sharpf Semiautomatic is to die for! I knew there was something like that, but had never seen it before.

Some sidenotes:

The first machine, the Vorwerk, is a relabeled AEG Turnette. It's not a twintub btw, there is no spinner. You need a separate spindryer to spin the laundry. Here's another one: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s...ne-vorwerk-5010-vwa-2-typ-1/681297664-87-6681

The Privileg machines were relabelled Zanussi's. Privileg was sold by the popular mail catalogue retailer Quelle (Versandhaus in German).

The not so old Siemens is similar to my somewhat cheaper model Siemens that I bought 4 years ago.

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?47664

Great machines, but a bit sensitive in the spin cycle.

The Lavalux is a lovely machine. There was also a later model that had a variant with an agitator called Agilux. I don't know exactly about Germany, but in the NL twintubs weren't very popular (my mother had one though) because fully automatic machines became affordable rather fast. When the automatics came onto the market here soon there were frontloaders that were around the same price as an expensive twintub.
 
@Louis

Danke schön for all the background information, knew if anyone would have it, that would be you.

One wonders being older machines if the Scharf and AEG would run "fine" on 60hz frequency. Not that one has a snowball's chance in Hades of ever seeing the things on this side of pond, and certainly won't be buying off ebay and shipping. But still one can dream.....

@bellalaundry

If one hits the lottery or comes into a sudden windfall it would be the only way to get those great German machines onto these shores. Go around, buy them up, hire a shipping crate and pack it full... *LOL*

If you've nosed around Germany eBay or whatever sites you'd know even for small things many German sellers don't do shipping. On larger items such as laundry appliances that is nearly universal. This applies within Germany, one can only imagine response for EU shipping....

Once bought a Kaltmangel from Germany. To my surprise seller agreed to ship. Damn silly fool did not pack the thing well and it arrived with major damage. Still useable to some extent, but needs parts that one cannot readily find.
 
Miele Wringer

Years ago now saw a Miele wringer washer on fleaPay, or maybe it was CL being offered up for sale in USA.

The thing had a tub made of wood with a wringer attached, which one thought was odd and had to be ancient. Until later found old brochures from Miele indicating they made such things late into the 1950's Can you imagine? Guess things were that bad in post war Germany.
 
"Vorwerk, is a relabeled AEG Turnette"

AEG is a puzzle to me; it seems they were always either having others make some of their laundry appliances for them, or vice-versa.

Followed the thread about Lavamat topladers and it becomes confusing since it is hard to nail down what exactly AEG produced in house, versus merely slapped their name onto something made by someone else.
 
Yes, they would run on 60Hz.

The motors would run 10% faster, though - which means there'd be some pretty strong agitation (and really fast pumping).

Thank you for the walk down memory lane - it's cool!
 
Vintage Miele washer made of wood

From 1949! Can you imagine, the war had been over for four years and Miele was producing washing machines made from wood.



Here's me thinking housewives in UK were worse off saddled with twin tubs or still using a copper and mangle.

But then again judging from this Sunil spot many housewives in Germany would have welcomed that Miele washer, wood or no:

 
Yes, Miele indeed made those wooden washing machines for a long time, but by that time they also had brought more modern machines on the market. I think those wooden washing machines were meant for farmers etc. A neighbour of my grandparents had one, she used it into the early 70's. She really liked it and kept it until her husband forced her to buy something new. He sold Bosch washing machines, my mother bought her Bosch automatic in the 1960's from him!

I suppose the Sunil video was situated in social housing in Germany. Most likely they didn't get the modern stuff very early.
 
Sharpf Semiautomatic

If you look closely at picture, to side of washer is a nice big crate of Persil 59; same as one has in stash. Wonder if there is anything left inside?

Also wonder if the Persil 59 was purchased to be used in the Sharpf washer.
 

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