We have colour on automatics! Avocado green and 'Mod Yellow'

[mayfan69]

Hi guys,

Well, finally finished a project sometime in the making: I now have colour in my Wilkins Servis automatics.

WS introduced colour in 1976 on their fully automatics: Avocado Green and what they called 'Mod Yellow'. The twin tubs came in other colours as well.

It was going to take sometime to get the actual machines in those colours so I decided to get the cabinets sprayed as close as possible to the original colours. The only thing I couldn't do was have any shading done: it was going to be too expensive

Finally finished putting them back together today...I think they look pretty damn good!!

Enjoy the pics.

Cheers
Leon

 

[midcentnurse]

That is amazing!! I love it!

 

[tolivac]

Really nice--they are like Maytags from the "drum" money shots!Have agitators like Maytags that I used to know.

 

[askolover]

I was

thinking the same thing that they look like Maytags inside.

 

[mayfan69]

Maytags

Yes: they are Maytags under the skin...but Australian made. But, the stainless steel bowl was unique to Wilkins Servis and Australia.

 

[d-jones]

Congratulations on a job well done. The machines look great! Just out of curiosity, would these agitators have the baffle plate underneath like their early black plastic American counterparts?

 

[mayfan69]

Baffle plate

Thanks David, much appreciated. Yes, these agitators still have the baffle plate. Wilkins Servis used this style agitator throughout the entire production run up to about 1978.

Cheers
Leon.

 

[toploader55]

Beautiful Machines

Love the SS Tubs and all those buttons.

 

Great Collection Leon.

 

[washdaddy]

Both of those machines look great! Like the way they have stainless tubs with those agitators. Maybe you could post a video or two of them in action.

 

[appnut]

Leon, very nice.  What years were these two models actually produced/sold?  Both of them? 

 

[mayfan69]

Years made

Hi Bob,

The Avocado 501 is a 1975 model and the Mod Yellow 506 would be the final model produced in 1978.

Cheers
Leon

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Nicely done!

They're absolutely beautiful.
WK78

 

[appnut]

Thank you Leon.  The 501 is what Maytag SHOULD have been offering on the market at the time.  Stainless Steel tub, extra rinse option, and I bet some of the other characteristics of the timer dial here in the US. 

 

[bvf]

beautiful

I love your machines…the colors make you want to do wash……you have special moments that most will never enjoy…you are lucky……post more of the little details i wish more people would not feel like they are overdoing or bragging, i want more [pictures and any other washers that are foreign to us in america….here is one of my projects just picked up a new heater element…1953

 

[brisnat81]

Hi Leon,

That is so worth the time and money you've put into them. The colours really pop together. I can imagine them in a showroom with the Purple twinnie in front.

As always your work is amazing.

Regards

Nathan

 

[askolover]

I wonder

would those stainless tubs fit in our US Maytags? 

 

[mayfan69]

Stainless steel bowl swap

Yes, they are a direct swap for a Maytag.....check out my link below for the conversion I did a while ago:

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?38367

 

[arrrooohhh]

They look Smashing Leon!

Also, would I be correct in guessing that there are some new machines on the way?

 

[mayfan69]

New machines

Hi Ash,

Thanks, and yes......A solid tub top loader and a vintage dishwasher.....should be here in a couple of weeks.

Cheers
Leon

 

[jetcone]

Leon

stunning job there! Those are two stellar machines. I just love the colours and always loved those backsplashes- so stylish!!! Must get down under to play !!

The Avocado one looks like a TOL model with all those buttons, what do they do?? I can't quite make out the "Wash And Spin" buttons.

Love the marketing as "Fashiontone Colours"

 

Nylon hinges on the lids!! Somebody knew their stuff at WS !!

 

Does the Kelvinator beside them have the centric action dasher??

 

My cousin and mates are twisting my arm to get my butt back to Oz.