Swedish Kitchen Advert - 1973

Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

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For those not familiar with Sweden....

In the '67 Radion advert it starts off asking "how do you wash these dresses"

Wash!! You throw them out is the response.

That metal hatch is the standard Swedish apartment building trash chute door. You sometimes even found them in fancier houses too.

'67 was a big year for Sweden - they changed sides of the road then.

(also, Radion is Swedish for "the radio"... now ask me what tape is in Swedish)
 
Google translate gave me the word for tape. lol

The twintub in the scene with mother and child is an intriguing. I thought it was an Elektrohelios, but it looks different than the one (without spinner) in the Tekniska museet. I guess there were quite a few brands that sold those.

https://digitaltmuseum.se/021028545204/tvattmaskin

And then there is that built under the counter frontloader....
 


Louis

I wonder if it is a twin tub - there is no doubt the two are a matched set, but the change in depth between the two parts and what appears to be two pull handles and also the change to the profile between the washer and the spinner at the rear makes me wonder if the spinner is an entirely separate unit.

As mentioned previously, the Husqvarna machine at the start appears to be an AEG clone. As to the second front loader, I have no idea whatsoever

Al
 
Al,

It's actually a bit of both. Just like we saw in a previous video that washer and spinner are connected to eachother. You can see a metal strip between the washing machine and the spinner. I guess it's best of both worlds. To me that makes it a twintub, but you can just as well say they are two separate machines.

Husqvarna has put the name on AEG machines for a very long time. If you visit the Husqvarna museum, you'd think you are in an AEG museum.

The second frontloader looks a bit like a Rondomatic TOL machine, but it's too different to be just that. For instance the door swings the other way.
 
Metal strip

Louis

Wow, you do look at these videos with a sharp eye LOLOL But now you mention it, I can see it too. Rather like a much more advanced Hoover Twosome - I see the point you are making.

I would love one of those AEG machines, or even a Husqvarna - I am not too fussy!

I have not heard of Rondomatic at all
 
Al,

Well, don't ask me how often I watched that video already. lol Besides that I had seen such a strip before in the commercial of the Asea Skandia commercial in Reply #33 at 2:15. That one may have a common toe kick plate too.

I added a Dutch ad for a Rondomatic. It's an all push button model, the second frontloader in the commercial may be too.

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No, quite a few differences. I just can't stand that I don't know what it is. lol

Rondo was a German brand, later gobbled up by AEG so their later machines were relabelled.... So there was a time that you could have the same machine as AEG, Zanker, Husqvarna or Vorwerk. And who knows what else.

The Doris was their first frontloader IIRC.

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Glamoren

Carpet & Upholstery Shampoo

Seems to be a rather similar system to Bex Bissell which we were familiar with here. I am curious about that Electrolux cleaner, although models varied from country to country.

I could not help wondering if this product had any relationship to the US Glamorene product



 
Hoover Shampoo Polisher

They were a step well beyond the mechanical driven shampoo "machines" such as that in the video, as I I recall there were only sponges in those whereas you had the rather effective scrubbing action of the Hoover. The drawback for these was you just had to wait for the carpet to dry and then thoroughly vacuum them. By coincidence I have been shampooing carpets today using a much later Vax machine (not the orange Vax shop vac style cleaner) which allows to shampoo and rinse the carpets with the dirty water being sucked up so it does not take so long for the carpets to dry.

We also had a mechanically driven shampoo "machine" here in the 1970s but really it could not have been much more effective than the manual one
 
As a tidbit for non-Swedes, curtains are generally just decorative panels and are changed out seasonally in many Swedish homes (hence the changing curtains in "trivsel med textil" video.

I love the "washing the car is mens work" bit...

My mom had a Bissel carpet shampooer in the 70's (not sure why, since we never had wall to wall carpet ever).
 
#130

Even though I'm part Swede, I can't understand the language. bummer. Wish I could

Adorable black poodle was just like the one we had growing up. I hope they weren't claiming the vacuum would get out dog hair because the poodle (along with one other breed) don't shed.

The Electrolux originated in Stockholm.
 
Love that Electrolux Film

So much to see there, early fridge freezers and upright freezers. Who knew that there would be a tie up between Electrolux and Miele? Are those washers that appear before the Miele manufactured by Electrolux? They look like they may be semi automatic.

The little round dishwasher is semi automatic but is simple in operation and would be no bother to deal with whilst clearing up other things after a meal. In the 1965 report a Which? member said of it "If a bad man demanded my honour or my dishwasher, the latter would remain in violate". Not only was it substantially cheaper than the competition it was also "plug and play" - not requiring an expensive (at the time) installation. On the link is a previous thread ChesterMike posted when our good friend Richard (ricky5050) brought his down for us to try - its on the link

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?60577
 

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