Very Cool Old Photo - Complete with Hoovermatic!

[mattywashboy]

Hey guys

I was just looking through some old photos i have. I have recently acquired a negative scanning machine so i am loading up all the super old photos we have onto an external harddrive as a keepsake.

I came across this photo of my Grandmother Mona, standing in our kitchen in the UK. This is the house i grew up in and this kitchen remained the same for the first two years of my life until we renovated and got more cabinet space. Notice the Hoovermatic Twin Tub, my grandmother moved out when i was born and took this machine with her. My mum bought a brand new Hoover Twin Tub, the last model made (T???) in grey.

As time went on and we eventually renovated, my mum decided not to wrestle with the twintub anymore and purchase a brand new Hoover Logic Automatic 1100. Dad would not allow her to buy the 800 model as he wanted to get a high spin dry rpm, as he was used to clothes being as dry as they come out of a Hoovermatics 3200rpm spin dryer.

This is a great piece of history for me, i remember the twintub in use at grandmothers new house, i used to run and hide when she started the spinner as it scared me. I remember my mother standing at the new grey hoovermatic and throwing things into the fast moving water while dad carried me to the breakfast table.

I just wanted to share it with you guys.

Thanks

Matt

 

[mattywashboy]

cooker

can anyone identify that cooker? i can't remember what brand it was. We changed it later for a Creda all electric one, very simple black controls, grill incorporated into oven.

Thanks
Matt

 

[vacbear58]

Cooker

Matt

Its a Jackson Hi Line, early 60s version. It too is electric, with solid hotplates. . As far as I know the oven was bottom hinged, the storage drawer may have been heated - hard to say. Later on the controls moved to above the grill

Ahh that wall-paper and those curtains, I remember the style well, and carpet on the floor too. There is a Kenwood Mini mixer on its wall bracket over to the right, and I am guessing the jug style kettle is a Swan. The HM looks like it may be a 3310E
Al

 

[vacbear58]

Negitive Scanning Machine

Could you post some details of this please, its something I could use too
Al

 

[mattywashboy]

Hi Al

I found this machine in our department store Big W. It was a relatively cheap $88 piece of kit.

Its brand name is Zipp and it is called a Smart Digital Image Copier. Simple enough to use, it has holders for negative film (both 135 size and 110 size) and also for slides. You set up the software which is basically photo editing software and u import the image from the machine. You do this by pushing the holder with film in through the machine, it clicks into place at each still so u can capture it well.

I can't find any info or pics of it on the net. I will aim to get a pic of it soon.

Thanks
M

 

[chestermikeuk]

Great Memories

Hi Matt

Great story about your family kitchen & the "Hoovermatics", from looking at the pic its the newer style squarer shaped, did it have the automatic rinse?? do you remember it having a blue spin deck?? like this

 

[chestermikeuk]

Or this??

the trim looks like light grey in the pic??

 

[mattywashboy]

Hi Mike,
The machine had the blue spin deck, i remember that well enough. At some point also someone in our family had another Hoovermatic which ended up in our shed. It could have been grandmothers but not sure, could have been my great grandmothers.

I remember playing with it in the shed and specifically remember the control knobs had orange on them, like a pointer?

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hoover 5000 series

Hi Matt, sounds like you where a Hoover family, was it this one!!! it came in white or silver lids...

 

[mattywashboy]

yep, i remember those dials really well, thats cool

Pretty sure everyone in my family had Hoovermatics hehe apart from my other grandmother who had a Servis Supertwin, but then got a Hoover Electronic 1100 second hand after that haha. Oh wait, my great aunt had Zanussi's...hmmm. Oh well, a lot of people went the Hoover way anyway lol.