UK 1967 House & Garden appliance report - with a NEW old machine!

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Sinkamatic

I have seen a similar thing, in the early 80s I lived in a flat in Fulham, the landlady next door had one she said she bought it at the ideal home exhibition, hers had the single pulsator at the back but had a rack on runners that allowed you to pull it up to load it, this is the first time I have seen anything like it.

These machines to me are all great and interesting I like em all, so have them delivered!

Nice to know Paul you are both settling in and finding time to enjoy yourselves with more leisurely pursuits

Thanks for posting this
Gary

 

[vivalalavatrice]

STOKVIS

seems to be a TLHA... or not ???

 

[sesteve]

Sinkamatic

Haha Gary. Your post reminded me of Kitty being concussed at the ideal homes exhibition by an electric potato peeler!! Made me snigger

Great magazine Paul. I love all this old stuff - they just do t make em like the used to

 

[aquacycle]

Kitty being concussed at the ideal homes exhibition

Not to mention, Steve, her mother gave birth to twins in an un-heated wash house and got straight up and finished the manglin'!

Paul, what a find!! These are brilliant, thank you very much for sharing!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Appliances in The UK of '67!

That's pretty cool stuff, there on The Other Side Of The Pond...!

Thanks for sharing...

-- Dave

 

[rolls_rapide]

ACME Automatic

I was looking at 'CandyBimatic's videos, and the Zoppas 563 is surprisingly similar...

same oval filter access opening, although the Zoppas has it hidden by a full cover panel.

MatchboxPaul's blow-up of the ACME in Reply #4, reveals a detergent lid on the top rear left, and a button on the top of the machine, near the front edge. Door release perhaps?

 

[matchboxpaul]

Blimey!

Its frightening how time flies - I can't believe that it was way back in 2013 that I found the magazine and started this thread.

Looks like, after getting for 6.5 years later, the origin of the ACME Automatic has been identified.

Agree with you Rolls_rapide, it certainly does have a number of design cues that the Zoppas 563 has.
I had never noticed the door release button on the top, until you mentioned it.
Apply a deeper fascia to the front of the cabinet and the gap looks like it would be the right depth between fascia bottom and the top of the bodyshell crease around the door.

Although the Zoppas 563 has a full width door across the front of the machine, open that door and the access space to the pump is a match too.

I think you have solved this mystery.

It's a shame one has never surfaced - pretty sure they will all be either buried in the ground, or have been recycled in the 1970s/80s - as, going by the video of the Zoppas, they would have been a really smart looking machine.

Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Are these a slight variation on the style of dials?
Another smart offering from Zoppas - the 580 ...

 

[matchboxpaul]

A bit bigger ...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Here is the UK sold Zoppas -the DL23T, only available through Currys as an own brand product ...

 

[rolls_rapide]

I wonder if Zoppas supplied unfinished machines to ACME, in order that ACME could put their own fascia on the machine? Didn't Bosch once do something similar with dishwashers for Hotpoint UK?

Bearing in mind the likes of English Electric farted about with moving control panels from front, to back, then front again, between different models of washer. I suppose the ACME could have been a one-off hybrid design before complete Zanussi-fication set in.

The Zoppas 563 has a left-hand rear dispenser, door release button, but the three control knobs are on the back edge of machine.

The Zoppas 570 moves the dispenser to the rear right-hand side, door catch is a handle on the door, control panel is on the upper front edge of the machine.

The Zoppas 580 has front-mounted dials.

Regarding the Currys advert and the Zoppas DL23T, that particular design seems to have all the design cues of Zanussi/REX. Reply #30 in the following thread appears a good match for it.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23704

I noticed that the ACME Automatic seems to have two dials, and what appears to be a rocker switch on its front fascia.

An advert for the Zoppas 562 apparently shows two rear-mounted dials and possibly a switch, rather than the three dials of the Zoppas 563. But the filter access port seems not to be shown in the Zoppas 562 advert.