Operation Matchbox Rescue! - Hoover 3236H

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Myself and the owner carried the Hoover down the stairs and I escorted it out of the building, stopping in a corridor to get a final shot of the machine in its home for probably at least the last 25 years.

The toploader was brought down stairs by gary and the building owner.

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How do David.

Thanks for the kind words.
I will post some piccies of your namesake machine later in this thread.

To say it has issues is a bit of an understatement, but hopefully they shouldnt be unsurmountable.

Piccies of the 1509/05 soon.
Paul
 
With all the backbreaking work over, both machines were sack trucked outside.

I had let Beverley know the time that we were going to be at the school and it was wonderful that she was able to drop by.

It was really nice to be able to thank her in person, for all the help she had offered.

Here she is with Gary and the two machines they both helped to save, stood by the schools main entrance.

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After chinwagging outside the school for a bit and thankyou's were said to people, the meachines were loaded into our cars and driven away from their precarious existence into a hopefully more secure future.

Here is the matchbox in the back of my car...

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20 minutes or so later arriving and being unloaded at Garys garage for initial investigations to begin.

Taking a break now - more pics possibly tonight. If not tonight, then over the next few days.

Hope this first installment has proved interesting and again, thanks to all involved.

Regards
Paul

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Nice One :)

Hi Paul/Everyone

Paul thanks for the thanks :) - looking at the work involved although I may have started things in the overall plan it looks like I did the easy part lol!!.

Its really good to know theres another preserved Matchbox in the ranks and I can imagine how much it means to you to have the same model of machine that holds all the memories of your early childhood :).

We await more pics .....

Seamus
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

Seamus - you posting the pictures started the ball rolling, which culminated in the machines being saved. Without that first stage, they would still be on the top floor of an old school building.

Work done on the machine right upto this evening has really divorced the machine from its previous existence. Cant wait to show you what has happened between the weekend and now!

Will take the story through to its arrival at its other owners home in Cardiff tonight.
 
Lid removal revealed a lot of dust inside and pitting on top of the outer tub, that thankfully appears to be surface only.

Strange thing is the bottom of the outer tub looks pristine.

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Opening the door revealed the lovely and immaculate blue with white speckles enamel drum.

No dings or dents in here - fantastic condition.

I have a feeling that my mothers machine had a darker blue to black drum, but maybe my memory is playing tricks....

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arty shot....

decided to move my car from the front of garys garage and reverse it into a parking space.

looked in my left hand rear view mirror and this is what i saw....

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detailing of the old original door seal, embossed with the name of HOOVER.

This picture also shows the blue of the drum really well...

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