My Personal Hoover Challenge.....
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newwave1
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I found this piccie in my photo collection i think this is from the selectamatic era....
Darren
Darren
newwave1
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Hmmmm paul is this what you were after?
Darren
Darren
matchboxpaul
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Hi Darren - thanks for posting the piccies.
The first one would be the A3108 - I have never seen a full picture of this machine before - so major thanks on this one.
The second machine is tha A3052 automatic de luxe which, as it states, was an exclusive model sold through house of fraser only and based upon the 3236h matchbox.
I have seen this machine before, but only through searching through the forum archive and discovering one of your old posts. I can tell you I was ecstatic when I discovered the picture as, prior to then I had not seen this machine before and, well, I do love my matchboxes.
Anyone got a picture of the A3040 (same machine, but with blue and white facia) which was a currys exclusive. If so it would be
a)fantastic
&
b)the first time I will have seen the machine since I was about three years old. A mate of mine at play school (pre junior school!) lived in a pub and an A3040 was a pub-kitchen machine. The private quarters had a stacked bendix 7147 washer & 7446 dryer combo.
Fingers crossed for an A3040.
Cheers
Paul
(p.s hope you like my latest piece of 'appliance art' - the A2018. I know the door is set too high and it has been changed on my hard copy)
The first one would be the A3108 - I have never seen a full picture of this machine before - so major thanks on this one.
The second machine is tha A3052 automatic de luxe which, as it states, was an exclusive model sold through house of fraser only and based upon the 3236h matchbox.
I have seen this machine before, but only through searching through the forum archive and discovering one of your old posts. I can tell you I was ecstatic when I discovered the picture as, prior to then I had not seen this machine before and, well, I do love my matchboxes.
Anyone got a picture of the A3040 (same machine, but with blue and white facia) which was a currys exclusive. If so it would be
a)fantastic
&
b)the first time I will have seen the machine since I was about three years old. A mate of mine at play school (pre junior school!) lived in a pub and an A3040 was a pub-kitchen machine. The private quarters had a stacked bendix 7147 washer & 7446 dryer combo.
Fingers crossed for an A3040.
Cheers
Paul
(p.s hope you like my latest piece of 'appliance art' - the A2018. I know the door is set too high and it has been changed on my hard copy)
mattywashboy
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does anybody notice that on the australian models (the Zodiac), there is no soap drawer. I had one of these breifly and it was impossible to use softner, you had to chuck the soap in at the start and to put softner in was just a load of messing around waiting for doors to unlock etc etc.
matchboxpaul
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first thing my aunt would do was dump a pile of Surf straight into the drum of her A2018, pile the clothes in and then turn on. weird to think that machines with no powder drawer were being produced well into the late 70's.
matchboxpaul
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Bit of an update
Got my ebay purchases - pretty much comprehensive Hoover service manuals - over the weekend.
Have spent this afternoon checking all the models against my spreadsheet and everything tallies - apart from the mystery machine which started this thread!
I searched long and hard and not a trace of a widebody 'de luxe machine' like my drawing could be found (Alex - would it be possible to provide any further info re the machine you read about at your end ?).
Unless you come up trumps Alex (no pressure), I am going to have to resign myself to the fact that my mind (at 28!) is playing cruel tricks and that the machine that I remember was probably the 3221H and didn't have a powder drawer (I am sure it did though).
Looks like it is forever going to remain a mystery.
Cheers
paul
Got my ebay purchases - pretty much comprehensive Hoover service manuals - over the weekend.
Have spent this afternoon checking all the models against my spreadsheet and everything tallies - apart from the mystery machine which started this thread!
I searched long and hard and not a trace of a widebody 'de luxe machine' like my drawing could be found (Alex - would it be possible to provide any further info re the machine you read about at your end ?).
Unless you come up trumps Alex (no pressure), I am going to have to resign myself to the fact that my mind (at 28!) is playing cruel tricks and that the machine that I remember was probably the 3221H and didn't have a powder drawer (I am sure it did though).
Looks like it is forever going to remain a mystery.
Cheers
paul
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