Sadose!!! Welcome!!!
I would have welcomed you earlier, but I've been staying with Dan off this board (washboy2005) in Hartlepool sicne the weekend... seems the moment I stop checking the boards the postings flood in!! Great pictures of your Zanussi - I love those models and the equivalent AEG ones. Lover older Zanussi and AEG models too - I own an old AEG and it is absolutely great. Also have a 2004 model AEG, love that machine too although I am thinking of getting rid of it for one of the new Miele's, having second thoughts now though. The matching dryer, on the other hand, really does piss me off!!
I love old Hoovers too - I grew up with them. My nana had an A3060 Electronic 1100 from 1978 too, spent many of my childhood days sat in front of that!! There was one on Ebay a few days ago, but I tried looking for it now and it must have ended whilst I was away - otherwise I seriously would have bidded on that! (God knows where I'd put it though lol). I also grew up with a Hoover A3110 from 1980 for my first 8 years - was the same machine as Kyle described, and had exactly the same controls as the A3060 with the different spin buttons. (BTW, kyle, programme E with the half spin button pressed in was Minimum Iron - they still called this programme Minimum Iron until the Six range was introduced I think).
I have the privilege of living just round the corner from Darren, so I'm often round his having a little wash-in with his Hoovers and the Quartz - absolutely love them!!
I agree about you with the Bosch - the one my mum has downstairs in the utility room washes & spins well, but the rinsing has a lot more left to be desired - fortunately I see the new Exxcel and Classixx models now all have the Aqua Plus button for extra rinse *and* deeper rinses, so hopefully their rinsing should have improved. It's to the extent that I can use biological washing powder of any brand in my Miele or AEG washers, but with the Bosch downstairs I can only use Persil as that is the only detergent that realyl does rinse out well (way better than Ariel), and is the only detergent that doesn't aggravate my sister's eczema or my dad's dermatitis. (Found that Persil seems to clean the best for me aswell in a powder, and smells much nicer, although you definitely can't beat Ariel when it comes to liquids).
I love that Siemens! They really are smart machines - although like Bosch they don't rinse very well, they definitely are well built workhorse machines. My Bosch is used at least 10 times a week and it sounds a bit dodgy because it has been bashed about by the builders when they were doing alterations to my house, but it seems to be behaving itself now and is again washing quietly.
Anyway, I'm starting to blabber... I have some videos of my old AEG on my putfile I can post right now, but don't have any other videos/pics up there at the moment. I have a few pics up on my webshots album though -
http://community.webshots.com/user/aquarius2101 - and have linked to my putfile below!!
Take care!!
Jon