Made in Deutschland, German washer pic thread

[robm]

Hi all

It's time to get out all your Miele's, Bosch, AEG, Bauknecht and any other german makes.

I think most will agree that Germany have produced some great and well built machines. My personal favorites are early AEG's and Miele. Here are some pics to get us started.

Happy viewing

Rob

First pic is a 1990s Bauknecht. This machine was brilliant, very well made and sturdy.

 

[robm]

This is my Bosch in London. I am selling my flat and this is going with it. Quite well built but a bit noisy. Very screechy motor. Not sure this was really built in Germany.

 

[robm]

My ever faithfull Miele. I bought this in 99 and it's great!

 

[robm]

This was my first washer when I moved from home. Very well made but hardly used any water. This dated from 1996.

 

[timon90]

Zanker Intimat

My grandma had a Intimat like this....Bringing back MANY memories... Miss that machine!

 

[foraloysius]

Hello Rob,

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the Bauknecht quality. My brother and SIL had almost the same machine, just a different spinspeed (1100rpm). It was a machine from hell. In the first year it was already repaired three times and afterwards several times too until it was 4 years old. Then it needed a very expensive repair (around 500 Euros. Bauknecht first refused to pay for it, but after confronting them with all the other repairs and the possibility of a law suit they gave in and it was repaired yet another time. The machine worked for another year and then broke down again. Fed up with the Bauknecht washing machine (and also because of several problems with the matching dryer) they decided to replace it with an AEG (and matching dryer).

Unfortunately my brother and SIL weren't the only ones with problems with Bauknecht machines. I know several other people who also had difficulties with their Bauknecht products. And all of those people swear they will never buy another Bauknecht product again. A recent consumer review also made clear that Bauknecht was the brand that was repaired more often than any other brand (which is not a top score by the way, it doesn't count when machines are replaced.

Louis

 

[foraloysius]

Since this thread ended up in the vintage forum I guess it's nice to add some pictures of older German machines. First one is a Bosch washer/dryer combo with a keyplate control. It's from the late sixties I think.

 

[foraloysius]

Another Bosch jewel, an H-axis twintub.

 

[foraloysius]

And the control panel of the twintub.

 

[foraloysius]

A really nice Constructa. A great brand before it was bought up by BSH.

 

[foraloysius]

One of the last Constructa's that did a real boil wash (1973 - 1974). IIRC Constructa was already bought up then by Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte.

 

[foraloysius]

Over to Miele. My favourite Miele set. The Miele W421S washing machine and the T460 electronic dryer.

 

[foraloysius]

In the early seventies Miele had introduced a few models with front controls. In 1975 a whole new line of washers and dryers with front controls were introduced. The new models had metal control panels.

 

[foraloysius]

Unique for that time was that the dryers matched both the frontloaders and the toploaders. Here's a picture of a Miele H-axis toploader from the same era.

 

[foraloysius]

Siemens made some nice products too. Among them a very colorful frontloader that was named "Harlekin".

 

[foraloysius]

In the seventies several brands sold a topload dryer (like Fisher & Paykel). Siemens was one of those brands.

 

[foraloysius]

One of the most sold washing machines in the Netherlands was the AEG Turnamat. An H-axis twintub. They used a lot of water, mainly because it couldn't spin between rinses. Five high water level rinses after the main wash and then you moved the laundry over to the spinner.

 

[foraloysius]

Same machine, now open.

 

[foraloysius]

Last picture for today, a nice AEG Lavamat Regina.