We Say Goodbye to Our Queen, Elizabeth Regina !!

[mickeyd]

All Hail and Good Cheer, Royal Washman Michael!

Came back a week or so ago and looked all over for you--and HERE you are.
So good to see you all again. Loved your festive uniforms; you all looked as good as Her Maj's pall bearers in theirs. And I loved the many shots of the Original Hoover Electric Washing Machine.

So many of those "first" machines from the late 40's have that iconic style: white block, black lines, minimal gadgetry, so old and comforting. Read somewhere this Summer, that this machine was a real revolution in washer tech because it was so fast, so economical, such a small-footprint in dimension, and what a brilliant agitator design. And that people were crazy about it.

Got such a kick out of your thinking Her Maj snook a lamplit Hoovering. Made me imagine her having a First Electic hidden away in her remotest chambre to sneak a midnight bloomers wash! LOL.

Again, so happy to see you! Seems like Canton, Ohio was a hundred years ago.

PS: The Hoover Autojet DW is a dream! Wonder if that's where Whirlpool got the idea for the KM spinning basket DW.

 

[mickeyd]

Senior moment

For the life of me....Could NOT remember.......Roto somthing, not swirl, not flex, but whaaaat...... ???

R O T O R A C K

 

[vacbear58]

Mikey

I have been looking for a photo of the then Princess Elizabeth's wedding gifts which included special editions Hoover 160 (upright) and the not even launched Hoover 402 (canister) so she actually could have done a sneaky bit of headlight Hoovering

You are 100% correct about the Hoover washer - it did have its limitations but it was compact and affordable. This video never gets old



Hoover had a somewhat mixed experience with dishwashers. The machine Mike posted earlier was actually made by Zanussi in Italy. Hoover resold refrigerators and freezers bu Zanussi too. This is the actual machine shown in Mike's pictures so you can see it in action



In around 1973 Hoover launched dishwashers of their own manufacture, made in Wales. It was a commercial failure and production was cancelled - the UK dishwasher market was just too small and there were plenty of Italian machines on the market, most rebranded by British companies. The two existing UK manufactured dishwashers Colston and Swanmaid both had their origins back in the 1950s. The other major model, Kenwood launched in 1965 but by 1974 had been replaced with another Italian model. That had the distinction of being a front loader with a bottom propeller rather than the more familiar spray arms.

Actually I struggle to think of any other UK manufactured dishwashers of any era, I am not sure if the Hoover machines from the early 1990s were made here or not.

Ironically Charles Colston had been Hoover (UK) Managing Director since it's outset until the family kicked him out n the mid 50s (one of many changes in Hoover at that time) and the dishwasher his company sold for so many years has many of the hallmarks of that first Hoover washer - compact, easy to install, affordable (comparatively) although it too had some limitations. I have always wondered if it was a planned Hoover product which he got out "under the radar". But that is just speculation.

Great to have you back Mikey, we will have to see if we can dig up some more wringer machines for you

 

[vacbear58]

We had one of those

You might like to check out Mike's YouTube channel too, WeHadOneOfThose - its on the link

https://www.youtube.com/c/WeHadOneOfThose/videos

 

[mickeyd]

Thanks so much, Al. Wonderful !

The DW video is superb: seems like Mike got it to go faster than the first operator, unless it was an optical illusion.
Fun how the Hoover has both racks roto-ing while the Kenmore has only one.

Then I went to Mike's Youtube channel and watched the English Electric and the Philips Toptwin. Love the way the pumps are pumping all the time, a lot like our Easy Spindriers, and how facile and mobile the filter to drain modes work. The EE filter is identical the one Kenmore Visimatics used for a few years.

But Oh My Gosh, the agitation on the Philips, how fierce and frightening. Would love to see the items added with the agitator running to watch what would surely be, an incomparable takedown. And that spinner, how like a jet turbine, seems faster than a Hoover. Spray rinsing in that would be simply diabolical.

Thanks again, Al, for the vids and Mike's channel. What a sweet Sunday night treat.

Here's a vid of the KM version of the EE filter. Enjoy.