Wash Electric Dry Electric UK brochure from the 80s

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more Hotpoint

 

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and more...

 

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top loader in the last one - my favourite machine but too new!!

 

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and last 2 pages of Specs

 

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Last one for tonight. enjoy Stephen

 

[miele4life]

Wow! I love the Hotpoint brochure with all the models on show, I love 2 see more where that came from lol

 

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I have a bigger Hotpoint brochure that accompanies that list Alan so will see about getting that up at some point soon.

Paul - is that clip of the Servis from my all time favourite washing powder advert for Ariel with the Bridal hire shop - Mud on't hem and Beaujolais all down't front.... Classic!

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Phil.

Yep - Hotpoint 17 and 18 series wraparound machines were being built through to 1986. Myself and Rob have managed to acquire the very last of these machines, in the form of the 18873 Microtronic L.E, which was an exclusive machine for Comet. Picture attached below.

Re the Electra's - ironically it appears that the Creda's available were of the old style, whilst the Electra machines were rebranded Creda 17000-series machines of the new style.
With this being an outlet for exclusive models, you would have thought that it would have been the other way around and that Creda would have demanded that its new series of machines were to be sold, whilst the electra branded exclusives were based on the old style. Perhaps this shows the bargaining power of the old Electricity Board Shops.
The Creda's and Electra's in the above brochures are pure Creda, being of their own design and a good few years before the takeover by Hotpoint.

The English Electric machines that you have worked on were either Currys or Comet exclusives - I cant remember for sure which shop commissioned them though.

The toploading Servis Mk311 was a weird machine and the photo contained in the brochure above, to the best of my knowledge, is the ONLy photograph ever found of this rare and rather impractical model.
Goodness knows what Servis was thinking when they commissioned it, especially when you realise that they were built in Canada, to a Kenmore design, and were imported to the UK!
A very weird situation.

Hope tha waffle helps.
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Stephen.

Youve been perusing Hass' Laundry Lab on Youtube then? Yep - the Servis screen grab was from the Ariel Bridal Shop advert - a bit of a classic for sure.

Thanks again for posting your brochures and for taking the time to scan the Hotpoint brochure.
This was the second brochure that covered the Hotpoint Next Generation machines, as the first brochure (which I have never seen) will have had the 9560 Microrofile 1300 De Luxe in it. This model was replaced by the 9561 Microprofile 1400 De Luxe in 1987, which appears in your brochure.

A '....bigger Hotpoint brochure....'! Realy cannot wait and thanks for spoiling us with your brochure collection.

Hughest Regards
Paul
p.s link to the Ariel Bridal Hire shop advert below...

 

[matchboxpaul]

Also its brilliant to see the full range of Creda Debonair washers and dryers - models 11700, 11800, 12000, 37414 and 37415 and the Compact dryer - not something you see every day and a classic much missed design from a once great UK brand.

Cheers
Paul

 

[electradeluxe]

i've just spotted the Hotpoint that my mum and dad bought new in 1986/7 after the door fell of our old Bendix machine,if memory serves she gave it away to my uncles sister in law,

we had the Hotpoint electronic 800 plus 9510 from 1986/7 to 1995,replaced with a Hoover New Wave 1100 which i loved, i can remember all the machines both my grans had too from when i was little up to present day

Neil

 

[thelaundrylab]

Brilliant!!!

Thanks for posting & sharing some of your brochures guys! Always brilliant to see some old classics

Regards, Hass.

http://www.youtube.com/hasszanussi