As some of you know or worked out, I picked up the new unused Hotpoint 1504 that was on ebay a few weeks ago. The machine I grew up with and never thought I'd own one. Had to raid the house renovation budget but I can live without doing up the place for a bit longer!
Thought I'd do a thread on here to show the old girl and comment on some of the design changes between this and the newer models. I'm going to do this the old way so I can put comments on each photo.
Complete with tap adaptors. You'll notice that the supply side of the hoses were not fitted with the screwed connections that we have now. My mum's machine when it was finally plumbed in just had the hoses pushed onto copper pipe secured with a jubilee clip.
Without the plastic. My Mum got her machine just after they got married in October 1969 so it would have been one of the first of these models. Her's had minutes on the timeline rather than the Max, Med, Min and the timeline lit up. My service manual says that the lamp and lampholder were deleted in 1971 - I may resurrect this feature
Instruction book, guarantee card, aftersales leaflet and tap connector guide. The instruction book is quite detailed but they dropped the little pictures of the tub showing the stage the wash was at
no fitted plugs in those days. My Mum's machine had the old wiring colours as these hadn't been standardised at that time. My aunties later top loader had a round pin 15 amp plug fitted and had to have the lead extended so it could plug into the only 15 amp socket which was next to the fireplace in the living room
I was surprised to see Ariel in there as well as Persil. I knew Hotpoint had ties with Lever so I'm guessing the Ariel was because of the new powders button on the machine to make use of the biological action
The Persil box is damp damaged although the powder still seems to be free flowing inside. Not that much smell to them though. The Comfort is just like how it used to be.
