matchboxpaul
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....and now I need your help.
Over the last year or so , my interest in washers and dryers has really taken off again, having spent many years lying dormant underground.
This interest has manifested itself in a personal challenge to myself to collate and tabulate information on all Hoover front loading washing machines and their dryer siblings which have been sold in the UK from the 3224 Keymatic through to the abandonment of the square door in the early 1990s.
Thanks to the help of Mike King (yep I have finally joined Mike), Kevin Cox and Alistair Kerr, I have managed to gleen a pretty good understanding of the Hoover ranges through the 60's, 70's and 80's. BUT there is one machine which no one, apart from me, seems to remember or has any knowledge of and it is driving me mad!
After the initial Keymatic (3224 and 3226), Hoover introduced the 27" widebody series of machines, such as the 3203/3223H keymatics and 3208/3221H automatics and it is to this series of machines that my 'problem' belongs to.
It was owned by and aunt and uncle of mine and was a widebody automatic, the design of which was the spitting image of the RED version 3236H matchbox machine which would have superceeded it.
It had grab handles on the bodysides, in case you were mad enough to try and move it and a door lever in the same style as all the other widebody machines. A slate grey powder drawer on the front, silver facia and red logo and ring round the programmer dial.
Those are the certainties - lost in the mists of time are whether it had an AorB button or a programme guide.
Now for the assumptions. I would have thought that it would have been on sale alongside the 3223H keymatic and could have been one of two things:
either a simple automatic replacement for the 3221H (which had no powder compartment at all)
OR
Hoovers first ever Automatic de Luxe. The reasoning behind this thought is that it was, styling wise, pretty much identical to the 3236H Automatic de Luxe which would have replaced it.
Any help on solving this mystery would be very much appreciated (as would any images of these early hoover automatics).
Rather embarrassingly, when initially enquiring about the machine, I did an MS Paint rendering of what it sort of looked like and, oh my god, I have attached it.
Please don't laugh too hard!
Rack your brains and fingers crossed on my part that someone out there knows what I am on about.
All the best
Paul
Over the last year or so , my interest in washers and dryers has really taken off again, having spent many years lying dormant underground.
This interest has manifested itself in a personal challenge to myself to collate and tabulate information on all Hoover front loading washing machines and their dryer siblings which have been sold in the UK from the 3224 Keymatic through to the abandonment of the square door in the early 1990s.
Thanks to the help of Mike King (yep I have finally joined Mike), Kevin Cox and Alistair Kerr, I have managed to gleen a pretty good understanding of the Hoover ranges through the 60's, 70's and 80's. BUT there is one machine which no one, apart from me, seems to remember or has any knowledge of and it is driving me mad!
After the initial Keymatic (3224 and 3226), Hoover introduced the 27" widebody series of machines, such as the 3203/3223H keymatics and 3208/3221H automatics and it is to this series of machines that my 'problem' belongs to.
It was owned by and aunt and uncle of mine and was a widebody automatic, the design of which was the spitting image of the RED version 3236H matchbox machine which would have superceeded it.
It had grab handles on the bodysides, in case you were mad enough to try and move it and a door lever in the same style as all the other widebody machines. A slate grey powder drawer on the front, silver facia and red logo and ring round the programmer dial.
Those are the certainties - lost in the mists of time are whether it had an AorB button or a programme guide.
Now for the assumptions. I would have thought that it would have been on sale alongside the 3223H keymatic and could have been one of two things:
either a simple automatic replacement for the 3221H (which had no powder compartment at all)
OR
Hoovers first ever Automatic de Luxe. The reasoning behind this thought is that it was, styling wise, pretty much identical to the 3236H Automatic de Luxe which would have replaced it.
Any help on solving this mystery would be very much appreciated (as would any images of these early hoover automatics).
Rather embarrassingly, when initially enquiring about the machine, I did an MS Paint rendering of what it sort of looked like and, oh my god, I have attached it.
Please don't laugh too hard!
Rack your brains and fingers crossed on my part that someone out there knows what I am on about.
All the best
Paul
