yes, I was thinking the same
the door latch looks "Kitchen Aid-ish" to me, but the brand Kitchen Aid has never been sold here apart from their famous food mixer. All dishwashers were called Hobart and mainly sold as commercial machines. Yet I tend to think the "Lincoln" brand in France was supposed to give the machine some "transatlantic" and "pro home automation" American taste.
No self-cleaning filters? No food grinder? Alas, flushing food waste down the drain is prohibited in most European countries: I would love to install a waste disposal but if they check the sewers again (and I tell you, they DO, I've been watching them more than once) I might be liable to the cleaning-up costs plus some (up to) 1200,- € penalty. (Which is ridiculous to me as anyone is flushing bad food waste down the toilet, I don't know a single person who has not ever done this). Authorities claim "the waste water plants are not constructed in a way to handle that extra organic waste" (bla, if you ask me).
Odd to me is the porcelain coated interior of that machine. The only strange and even more odd DW interiors were plastic instead of stainless steel. (late 60s, nowadays they are all steel).
Yet the outer design (steel, chrome and black glass) that is so tempting and yes Gabriele, our kitchen ranges of today= the do have this sleek look.
Once I've watched a Kitchen Aid DW here in Germany (an imported model) but I was shocked by the sheer weight of the lower spray arm, it was cast aluminium. Accordingly the pressure of the pump must have been tremendous, it was able to smash the more fragile sorts of glasses. This made me rethink KA machines as "good" by all means, I might find them "good for tough stuff" though.
Of course, times have changed since and I would not trust that old Lincoln machine either.
But doesn't it look nice? Hello Mama Jetson ;-)
