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Absolutely wounderful

James

A great commitment to first find and collect this machine and then to find the parts, restore and show it here fully working.

That replacement door gasket looks very similar to the English electric liberator boot, any chance of a part number to see if they have another, it may well make a better seal with the door than what I've tried so far.

I like the touch of the backing sheet for your display, I always imagined if I ever put on an exhibition I would have a backdrop of black serge or such like.

Well done

Mathew
 
Fantastic

Wow what a find, such a sort after machine that we all thought that no one would find, all that effort has paid off keep up the hard work.

Fab machine, saved and now cared for...

Lee
 
Wow!

That is so cool! You know, the electronics aren't primitive, not really - how many Hotpoint electronics done today will be around in 44 months never mind years.

That would be none. Still, though - I'd replace the filter capacitor and any other electrolytics in her. Those are all well past their useful life and when they go, they can take other things with them.

Totally impressed.
 
I'd choose

the Hoover automatic de luxe lol. As I already have the keymatic lol.

Back then the £20 price difference was quite a large sum, several weeks earnings at the time, of course talking from our point of view today, how could we choose, we'd have 2 of each, one left in the box and one to enjoy.

Also notice that the hire purchase agreement is over up to 50 weeks, whereas in the 60's you would be paying an appliance off over 3 years. So shows how prices of automatics were already falling in relation to peoples earnings.
 
Hi chestermikeuk

back then i was only 16 and still living at home .My mum wouldn't have looked twice at any of those machines she loved her hoover twin tub [A wash dog]
 
its interesting

to note that the Hotpoint top loader will only take 1LB wash load more than the front loaders
 
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