The Creda 275 make it's way to the shed.

[aquarius8000]

Hello all. I hope all is well. Yesterday I went to collect a Creda Tumbler Dryer 275. I have put it on top of the Aquamatic 3, as the Compact 3 is going back to it's owners soon. Sadly the machine suffers a bit of fascia slippage. I have run the dryer only briefly and it seems to get mice and hot. It's mega quiet! Here are a few pics of the dryer. I will at some point take the cabinet off and de-fluff the dryer.

Here is pic one, on top of the Aquamatic.

 

[aquarius8000]

Picture 2

With the door open...

 

[aquarius8000]

It is essential...

...To clean the fluff off the mesh filter after each use.

For a change, there was no fluff on the filter!

 

[aquarius8000]

Arty shot

Perhaps?

BTW, why does the machine say 'Tumbler dryer'? It doesn't seem right to me.

 

[aquarius8000]

And finally...

The 275, Compact 3 and the Candy Aquamatic sat alongside each other.

Thanks and please comment!

Chris.

 

[supermaticjames]

Before the mid seventies most British dryers were marketed as "tumbler dryers" because the clothes are dried in a revolving "tumbler". This was shortly shortened to "tumble dryers" because it is easier to say two syllables than three.

James.

 

[paulc]

James and Chris, my aunty still calls her dryer "the tumbler"! She had the full size Creda ( don't know the model number ).

 

[aquacycle]

LOL, Paul, my Mum still calls it the "tumbler".

Nice 275, same model my grandparents in Belfast have.

 

[paulc]

Ha ha Chris, must be a north of England thing! Those Creda dryers were fantastic, I had a second hand 275 for while, I gave it to a friend when I got a bigger "tumbler"

 

[hoover1100]

The tumbler

Another here, that's what we always referred to it as!

 

[fido]

In Scotland some of my customers referred to their rotary clothes lines as the "whirligig" and they had a similar name for the tumble dryer but I can't remember what it was now. Others would call it the spin dryer but I got wise to that and made sure I took my tumble dryer spares with me to such jobs!