PHOTOS!!

[gizmo]

Colston

I think Colston was a UK brand name, it was not used here.

There was a benchtop dishwasher sold here called a Colston-Pye or Pye-Colston, the only Colston product sold here that I am aware of.

Chris.

 

[rolls_rapide]

Colston

Was once a separate company, making dishwashers; later merged with Rolls (of the "Rapide", "Concorde", "Starmatic" twin-tubs). Became Rolls-Colston; bought up by Ariston; Ariston is owned by Indesit.

 

[rolls_rapide]

Colston

Rolls-Colston
Rolls came into being in the late 1950s after entrepreneur John Bloom bought the brand name of Rolls Razor to market a range of inexpensive twin-tub washing machines. Colston were formed around the same time by Sir Charles Colston, formerly the UK director of Hoover, to market a compact dishwasher of his design. The companies amalgamated in 1962, but had gone bankrupt by 1964. Manufacture continued with machines built by the engineering company Tallent (who built the company's dishwashers), who re-branded them as such briefly, but by 1965 the machines were marketed as Colstons before the appliance division of Tallent was taken over by the Italian firm Ariston in 1979.

(from 74simon's website).

Here is a picture, also from 74simon. I tried to link, but got a "forbidden on this server" error.