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By the way, speaking of mixers, I'd love to own this one. This is listing as pick-up only and I'm not willing to drive to pick it up. Perhaps if we have someone here from NYC they could pick this up. You don't see this very often and in this condition. And there's always my birthday to think about.

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Pete, that Kenwood Chef is one bigass machine! Is it really as massive as it looks in the picture?
I have the commercial for that Westinghouse coffeepot. Has a little animated blob-guy saying how easy it is to clean, being spoutless.

Mike--how's about a closeup of that Sunbeam with the leaves? I think it deserves equal time! That three-tier jar on your counter--I have the same one in my bathroom, though a different pattern; pink & purple harlequin diamonds.

What's "Tingle"?

Need some vintage hair-care stuff for your bathroom? I got some extras.

veg
 
Westinghouse Perc

Hi Pete, very nice find, I'm pretty sure I have a 1959 tv commercial for that Westinghouse coffee pot, I'll look for it this week and post it if I find it.
 
Pete, that Kenwood is marvellous! Does the blender have a handle? Somehow the blender looks newer to me than the mixer, at least the white parts, but I could be wrong.

Kenwood still makes those mixers. Recently they came out with some really stylish modern ones, the KM001 and the KM005 with a 1000W and 1200W motors. Real workhorses!

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Size

Hi Veg,

The kenwood is neither small or large, its inbetween. The bowl on this first series is smaller than the later ones, and all the mixing type attachments are incompatible with the later versions.

Mine is rated for 5-90 hertz at 50-250V AC DC So it seems to be able to plug in anywhere. The 700D that I have is only rated to 240V 50Hz AC DC

These first Kenwoods were entirely hand made in the Kenwood Factory in Wokking (UK) All of the gears were hand cast, and the motors were assembled by hand from components all made in the factory.

It wasnt until the 701 models that they started using more generic Interchangeable parts.

When I got mine, it had a blown capacitor which was located above the motor. Thus the motor was full of oil. It cost me a pretty penny to get it up and running again. I only use it now for light things, I'd never try it on a Fruitcake or the likes.

Hugs

Nathan

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Blender Jug

Hi Louis,

The Blender jug is newer than the rest of mixer. The originals were all in one Blue tinged Glass, no handle, glass base with a chrome top.

The chrome top has a bakelite cap in the middle which removes to add stuff while its running.

The early jug also has a base that locks onto to the mixer which engages the clutch, and then the jug just sits inside it. This is rather than the base which lock onto the mixer.

When the jug is on the back, the front power outlets are supposed to be disabled.

There was and still is a full range of accessories available.

Back Power Outlet
Blender
High Speed Shreader
Juice Seperator

Top Front Power outlet
Citrus Juicer

Front Power Outlet
Low Speed Shreader
Cream seperator
Coffee Mill
Mincer
Can Opener
Bean slicer/Pea Huller
Wheat grinder

Mixing Power outlet
Potato Peeler
Seive
K Beater
Whisk
Dough Hook
Masher

I've probably missed a few but that should cover most of it.

Regards

Nathan
 
Hi all -

These early Kenwoods often pop up on eBay UK, so it always makes me wonder just how many are still out there being used all these years later. One of the things I like about the Chef/Major is that it's a tried and true design, and they haven't messed around with it too much over the years. Every so often it gets a bit of a facelift and some minor updates, but just enough to keep it modern, without straying too far from the original idea.

Something so many appliance manufacturers could learn from! REAL quality products evolve and improve slowly over time, gaining themselves a good reputation as they go.

Nathan -

Some of the attachments for the Chef/Major have now been deleted from the line, namely the cream maker, coffee grinder, can opener and bean slicer. These can still be easily found on eBay UK however, often unused and still in original packaging.

In their place, we now have the following:

Pasta attachment (roller type)
Tagliatelle accessory for the above
Pasta maker (extrusion type, plastic)
Pasta maker (extrustion type, metal)
Ice cream maker
Food processor (only fits latest model)

The "Multi Mill" mini chopper/grinder attacment is still available too, as is the selection of Kenlyte and SS bowls, the splashguard and dust cover. All of the accessories are rather spendy however, usually costing as much as a standalone version would. Collect the full set, and the combined total cost is about 3 times that of the actual mixer itself!

Cheers,

Kirk
 
Viking mixer

Kenwood also builds mixers for Viking-I own such a machine-has the 1000W motor-it mixes and kneads dough like no-ones business-outclasses the KA machines.Also Kenwood makes a mixer for Hamilton Beach-Commercial division.Its like the household models but has a few diffrences-Has large "Start and Stop" buttons on the side of the base along with the speed selector-and also an interlock switch to prevent the motor from running unless the mixing head is lowered over the bowel.Its a new OSHA safety requirement for commercial mixers-the motor cannot be started unless the beater blades have been lowered into the bowel.I would love to find some vintage Kenwood machines-like their KA counterparts-both last a VERY long time.I have a few newer KW machines under Rival,DeLonhi,and of course-Kenwood.
 
OH NO

I just realized, I didn't get a dough hook with this machine. I got the whisk and K beater (which I though was the dough hook) I hope I can still find a dough hook if the new ones don't fit. Now I can't try it out making bread,darn.
The blender jar doesn't look original to the machine because the lid and base are white, but it doesn't have a handle either.
If anyone has or finds an original doughook for this A700D please let me know or just grab it if it's cheap and I can send you the cost plus shipping..thanks
 
Tingle

Hey Veg, Tingle is an Aftershave for men. The box is dated 1951. The box cover has a nice little cheesecake feel to it. Here's a picture of the box and the actual bottle, which has never been opened. Great lines on the bottle, if you know what I mean! I'd be interested in seeing what you have as far as vintage hair care products. However, I don't have a whole lot of display counter space in my bathrooms.

Check back for pics of your favorite toaster this eveining.
 
Sunbeam Toaster Model AT-A

OK Veg, here ya go. The Sunbeam Model AT-A finally gets its day in the sun. It has a glass insert on both sides with the same design. The turquoise with gold veins leaves are painted on the front of the glass. The rest of the leaves are painted on the back of the glass. So, in person, it has a three-diminsional depth to it.
 
Another angle

The plastic platform that it sits on appears to be bakelite. I was looking through some old Sunbeam pamphlet that came with some small appliance and this was shown in the pamphlet. I seem to recall that it was dated 1965, but I'm just going by memory here.

I have quite a few old sunbeam toasters and they are very nice. But they are very plentiful. You can't walk through a flea market without tripping over Sunbeam toasters. But this one apparently had a very short model run. Not many of these to be found out there.
 
Not woodgrain

No, that's pure chrome. The reflection in the chrome is my wood grain cabinets. It is heavy and well built. I really do love old sunbeam appliances. They were so well designed and built and practically never die.
 
WOW!! The cabinet reflecting off the toaster made a cool "woodgrain" effect-had me fooled-Bet if that toaster should break-it could be easily fixed.I can smell the toast now!!My mom had some Sunbeam machines--a toaster(it lowered the bread inside SLOWLY-then when done Raised it SLOWLY) was pretty cool and it did a good job.There was a Sunbeam store and servicecenter in the Wash DC area-she got it from there-she also had her old Sunbeam mixer fixed there.And she got a Sunbeam"Courier" breifcase like vacuum there-did a nice job.Used it quite a lot. she also had a Sunbeam electric skillet.Made good pancakes on Sun mornings!!
 

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