vacbear58
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Not mine but belonging to a friend
Adam
If you check out the thread linked below you will see a good selection of Semi-autos from the UK. There are also links to videos on there.
I understand that the older Bendix models (the cream ones) are all semi-autos. Both of the Parnalls shown in Reply 14 are semi automatic - Parnall also manufactured the Thor Automagic here although it was still branded as Thor. The Parnalls did not have the dishwasher option that the Automagic had. In their 1960 washing machine test Which tested both the Automagic and a Parnall (the one on the left) and reported that although looking very different they were mechanically almost identical.
I dont know how close the two Parnall models are mechanically, the version with the console on the back was the later model - there was also an automatic version of this too. Both Parnalls has a form of suds saving too, the only British manufactured machine to my knowledge to do so.
Off on a tangent I have seen advertisments for cookers (ranges) branded as Parnall in Australia although I have never seen the same in th UK. I do not know if they sold washers in Australia.
Al
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82087
Adam
If you check out the thread linked below you will see a good selection of Semi-autos from the UK. There are also links to videos on there.
I understand that the older Bendix models (the cream ones) are all semi-autos. Both of the Parnalls shown in Reply 14 are semi automatic - Parnall also manufactured the Thor Automagic here although it was still branded as Thor. The Parnalls did not have the dishwasher option that the Automagic had. In their 1960 washing machine test Which tested both the Automagic and a Parnall (the one on the left) and reported that although looking very different they were mechanically almost identical.
I dont know how close the two Parnall models are mechanically, the version with the console on the back was the later model - there was also an automatic version of this too. Both Parnalls has a form of suds saving too, the only British manufactured machine to my knowledge to do so.
Off on a tangent I have seen advertisments for cookers (ranges) branded as Parnall in Australia although I have never seen the same in th UK. I do not know if they sold washers in Australia.
Al
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82087