Made in Deutschland, German washer pic thread

[peteski50]

constructa

I Love that old constructa it looks awsome.
Peter

 

[fredriksam]

That very old Constructa in the picture i uploaded is from 1959 or older, and they needed to be bolted down. Or else.....

On the subject of Keymatics. Zanker had one machine from 1964 that had a similar thing. It kinda looked like a small record and you placed it in a "reader" The "reader" was placed beside the detergent dispenser. The machine had a drop down door, like that cool Aeg Regina. Unfortenly i have no pictures on this washer

 

[foraloysius]

Venus,

I'm not sure about the cycles on that pushbutton Constructa. But the amount of pushbuttons comes close to what average washers of that time would have. And probably a few buttons for options like a prewash. Normal programmes would be 100*C (boil wash!), 60*C and 40*C cottons, 60*C and 40*C permanent press, a few delicate cycles, one or two wool cycles, drain, drain and spin, perhaps a rinse cycle.

Jon,

I think Fredrik is right about the age of the old Constructa. It was a fully automatic machine. I love the Miele backsplash machines, a schoolfriend's mother had the washing machine (not the dryer). She was so proud of that machine!

Fredrik,

I'm not sure if this is Kai's machine. He has a similar one, but I don't remember where I got this picture.

I didn't know about the problems with these Miele toploaders. I knew somebody who had one like that and it worked for many years without a single repair. Are you sure it was with this series? I thought the later ones with the control panel at the back were a bit problematic. Here's a picture of that series.

 

[foraloysius]

And here is a picture of that machine with the lid open.

 

[foraloysius]

Especially for Jon a picture of another but somewhat different backsplash Miele, the 406.

 

[foraloysius]

A picture of Rudolf Miele and Peter Zinkann, the management of Miele in that era, introducing the new Miele generation with front controls.

 

[robm]

Baukneckt quality

Hi Louis

Sorry to hear you had a such a bad experience with your Bauknecht. Ours was good until my sister put an underwired bra in the machine and the wire went into the outer drum. I couldn't get the machine back together again properly and it rattled on spin after that.

Thanks to you Louis and and others for their great pics, keep them coming. I attach pic of my AEG (Zanussi really)

Calling Tom from Norway, do you have a pic of your youtube Zanker?

Rob

 

[foraloysius]

An almost forgotten brand is Cordes. It was bought up sometime by Miele for their commercial line of machines. The domestic line disappeared completely.

 

[foraloysius]

Now what is that Rob? You are cheating!! LOL! I don't think that machine was made in Germany! We'd better compensate that with a genuine AEG! LOL!

Glad your Bauknecht worked for you as for probably a lot of people. Unfortuntaly Bauknecht has the reputation of being Germany's worst brand.

 

[foraloysius]

Speaking of Bauknecht, they made some pretty double door machines too. I remember seeing them at the Bauknecht dealer.

 

[foraloysius]

Bauknecht also made real boil wash machines. IIRC they used the Constructa patent and paid Constructa for it.

 

[foraloysius]

Another page of the brochure with a detailed picture of the control panel.

 

[foraloysius]

Another keyplate Bosch

 

[foraloysius]

Double doors were pretty popular back then. Here's a Siemens from 1974.

 

[foraloysius]

Siemens also sold compact toploaders. This is one of them, I'm not sure, but it's possible this one was made by Cordes. Fredrik, do you know this? These machines didn't have a fabric softener, but a rinse hold button that would stop the machine at the moment where the softener had to be added.

 

[foraloysius]

OK, just one more...

Siemens also made a topload washer/dryer combo.

 

[foraloysius]

Oh, hang on, I have more of that series! Here's a frontload washer/dryer combo

 

[foraloysius]

And a topload washing machine (this one is not a combo)

 

[foraloysius]

And this is a topload dryer. There must be a matching washer to this one too, but I don't have a picture of it. I like the variation in models of that time. Today's machines are much more boring. Even Mieles! LOL! Enjoy the pictures!

Louis

 

[timon90]

Here it comes

My Zanker 502TS

 

[timon90]

Another

Another one

 

[robm]

Thanks for those.

Tom, I have noticed with a lot of those Zanker's and AEG's the bottom plinth came off. Is this a problem with these machines?

Rob

 

[lederstiefel1]

German brands

Hey THAT IS GOOD NEWS!
Brilliant pix and interesting news from all of you!
But missing a bit the really old ones... MIELE woodden-tub washers with wringer and stuff like that...
Cheers, Ralf

 

[robm]

I don't have a pic of a really early Miele - help anyone?

Here is a more recent pic with the interior shown.

 

[foraloysius]

Your wish is my command ;-)

Miele wooden washing machine from 1929.

 

[foraloysius]

A popular wringer washer from the fifties, the Miele 75. It was a semi automatic model, first it heated the water up to the selected temperature and then it washed for the time it was set on.

 

[foraloysius]

Miele made non-automatic frontloaders too. This one was heated by a coal fire...

 

[foraloysius]

Twintubs were always very popular in the Netherlands until the automatics came up. Here's the famous Miele Combinette.

 

[foraloysius]

Miele made some H-axis twintubs too.

 

[foraloysius]

The last model twintub Miele made.