My Photo Album RobM from London on this site

[robm]

I have kindly been given a photo collection slot on this site.

Go to Photo Collection on the front page and I'm at the bottom of the list.

A far as I can see I am the first British guy on the list (forgive me if I'm wrong). Being British nearly all of my pics are of Frontloaders. I have tried to show how makes have evolved. Some of my pics are from old magazines. I have also tried to give info on each picture with an approxiate date of manufacture. Please let me know if I have anything wrong.

I hope, if you have time you enjoy these, they are for your enjoyment. I will keep adding to them.

Everyone else (particularly for my own personal enjoyment, you Brits) keep sending your photos in.

Many thanks

Rob

PS I have not and will not add any photos that others have sent me, unless they wanted me to do so.

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/ROBM

 

[newwave1]

thanks rob!
that was fantastic! Some of my favourite models in there! Wish they were all readily avaliable!

D

 

[foraloysius]

Thank you Rob for sharing your photo collection. It's great to learn a bit more about the British brands, most of those machines weren't sold overhere.

Louis

 

[agiflow]

Those older Hoovers are very nice looking machines and look pretty well built also. Thanks for the pics.

 

[lavamat_jon]

Great photos. 2 washers in they that I've had - the horrible WM64 excuse for a washer we had between 1998 and 2003, and the Hoover A3110 right at the end, 1982-1996. I'm sure if mum wanted to keep it it might still be running today!

Jon

 

[chestermikeuk]

Photos

Hi Rob

Some nice looking machines there, love those purple Hotpoints

What is the "Oldest" washer you have ever used??

Wringer or Twinny??

Cheers, Mike

p.s. Heres the link to my album

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/CHESTERMIKEUK/

 

[dascot]

I recognise several machines there - that various members of the family have had. We had an Electra branded version of the Creda debonair supertron, only difference I think was it had a dial for the delay timer. Also, the older AEGs - my gran replaced her Philips TL machine (CC1000 I think) with a Lavamat 981. And the Philips Series 90 machines, I liked them.

 

[stratus]

wicked pics

i think i forgot to blink! both those photo albums are wicked, expecially loved yours rob, i'm such a fan of 1980-1994 uk front loaders! hehe

Brandon

 

[arrrooohhh]

Thanks for that!

I loved the pictures.

 

[robm]

Thanks and msg to Mike

Thanks for everyone's compliments. I hope to add more and more over time. Anything over 36 will be new.

Mike, great pics, is that you posing with the detergents? It's nice to put a face to a name, maybe I should include a pic of me.

I'm surprised that your collection isn't on here. I used the contact us tab to ask if mine could be included. Mind you, you may not want it there.

Actually the 2 earliest machines I have used are in your collection. My nan had the Hoover 1963 separate washer and spinner. She also had an old mangle in the garden. My mother's first machine was that Servis twin tub. I think my nan may still have the spin dryer but the twin tub is long gone. The earliest automatic, I think was an old Indesit with the controls on the top and a lift up powder tray.

Rob

 

[chestermikeuk]

Spinners!!!

Hi Rob

Those "Hoover Twosome`s" where just the biz in the 60`s everyone had then near us, including my nan...but whoever used their "Bridging" strips to form a twinny??? I have asked loads of people and nobody ever did...LOL

The man in the pic with spinners n powder is Jon (Jetcone) on the club here from Boston, he had a visit last year, so we plugged a few machines in...

Heres a pic of me and my "Aunty Pat" on a family visit, she was using the twinnie she used to have...

Herr Webmaster is in the process of doing me a link, will be up shortly!!!

Cheers, Mike

 

[sadose]

Hoover Energy control machines

Wooo! Loving those machines especially, I adopted an electron 800 de luxe for a short time before scrapping it due to it being beyond repair. The ones at the bottom of that picture don't seem to be called Electron models. No mention of spin speed either on them. Ideas on spin speed anybody?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Electrons

Cheaper sisters of the Electrons..

The A3344 de-lux had an 800 & 600 spin

The A3332 was a 500 spin machine

Very reliable and generally lasted until the owner wanted a faster spin or latest model.

 

[cbosch]

Great pictures

Loved the pictures. My Gran had a 1980's hoover. Unsure of the exact age had no dispenser drawer and only one dial with an A/B switch that altered whether or not the machine span at the end of the cycle if on min iron wash programmes. 7 wash options you had to push the dial in in order to turn it.

 

[carlstock]

Thank You!

Thank you very, very much, Rob!

I am still looking through them as I speak.

Wonderful.

Regards,

Carl

 

[kirk280980]

Thanks for the pics Rob, I remember quite a few of those machines from when I was younger and it's nice to see them again.

The Indesit 099 was my mother's first automatic, eventually replaced by a 2099 and then later an 822; having liked the first one, she stuck with the same brand for the next two machines. Back then they were fairly good machines for the money, and it's only when Indesits became more plasticky that she was unimpressed and drifted towards other makes instead.

My aunt had an Indesit 092, and then a Hoover A3344. The latter had a hard life and eventually fell to pieces from all the bashing about it took, although I imagine in anyone else's home this machine could still be running today!

 

[robm]

Thanks to all, remember Mike has some great pics too

Thanks for everyone's comments. Mike also has an excellent photo collection which is on the Photo Collection list.

I really wish I had a time machine sometimes and could go back and look at all those machines for real. I'm always on the look out for bits and pieces.

Mike - I have just spoken to my Nan and she said they had the strip that kept the Hoover twinnys together. Unfortunately, it's now long gone.

Thanks for your pic, it's always nice to put a face to a name. You look a friendly fella. Here is a pic of me. I think I look resonably sane.

Anyone else what to show us what is behind the name?

Rob

 

[lavamat_jon]

Rob - thanks again for the great pics. Many great childhood memories!

I have a myspace profile... plenty of pictures there lol

Jon

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[ricky5050]

Nice collections

Hi Rob the photos remind me of many a trip to currys or Neeb as a child, oh to have a time machine. The Hoover washer from 1973/4 is my mams first auto , i can remember helping her repair it , and that you could open the door when it was full of water in a rinse hold position ( I flooded the kitchen many times and got wrong!)

Hi Mike you collection is even bigger i would love a root round some of those machines. Does the sloping front Keymatic work and what about the colston dishwasher is it any good at cleaning?

I am so bored having visited all my local tips , stopping at skips and nearly crashing my car to follow a scrap mans wagon on the hunt for something old to play with now the dark nights are coming in. Where are all the early Hoover Twin tubs??

Attached below is my photo Rob, in front of one or two of the Hoovers in my office room ( or should that be my computer in my Hoover room ?)

Cheers

Richard