Today's P.O.D.- 11/18/13 Kelvinator ?

[washdaddy]

For those in the know about this machine-

The ad says, "no hot water system required", yet it "saves hot sudsy water for
re-use" which would make me believe it had some type of suds-saver feature at least which many do cherish.

Now how can you get a machine to save hot water if it isn't required to begin with?

A heater in a TL machine? I've never seen one of those before. No wonder you would set it and disappear....by that time.... of course you could go on a picnic at the beach and come back...it would take that long for the water to heat up!!!

 

[DADoES]

 
This is not a U.S. ad.  The price is stated as "218 gns" for Model W89 or "199 gns" for Model W69.

Not unusual that vintage toploaders have water heaters on world markets where 220v / 240v current is standard.

 

[vacbear58]

Well spotted there DADoES

I was wondering about the heater thing too.

I think this may be an Australian advertisement rather than UK as I have no knowledge of Kelvinator washing machines being sold here at that time (fridges were I believe) and the price noted is about double what a UK automatic machine would have been here at that time.

Guineas were still being used in Australia then although I think this would have been an expensive machine for its time. The other clue would be the reference it semi automatic machines which appear to have been more popular in Australia then they ever were here.

Al

 

[arbilab]

Shoot, I thought 'gns' was gallons.

 

[simpsomatic]

HOT WATER

This is an Australian Kelvinator. Yes quite pricey for the time. Regarding the hot water, most Australian homes for this era had limited hot water supply. It generally was a 50 gallon tank in the attic space heated by electricity at night at an off-peak rate. Depending on your daily demand it was quite possible to use up all the hot water and then be out until the next morning. A load of wash on Monday, a shower or two or even a bath could use all the hot water. In the case of this washer it has a solid tub. The ad refers to triple pumps. The heating element is in the outer tub. The machine fills in the outer tub, water is heated. Pump number one transfers the heated water from the outer tub to the washbowl. Pump number two is for the recirculating water for the elaborate filter system, a mesh ring much the same as the GE Filter Flo. Pump number three is used to drain the outer tub during overflow rinsing and draining during spin dry. It is also used the siphon back the suds wash water if desired to as an added feature to save hot water. As for the Australian currency, before dollars and cents we had pounds, shillings and pence. A pound was equivalent to twenty shillings. A guinea (gns) was equivalent to twenty one shillings.

Nathan at Brisnat has a you tube video of a Simpson machine with a similiar set up with an actual demonstration.