Thanks for taking tge time to scan and post this report - we are doing well for UK reference works today, and some machines that woudl be lost to posterity. Some quick points after my first read through:
£112 - GEC. WHAT £112 GEC???? The only reference to a GEC washer I ever saw previously was a twinnie in 1960. So, could it be a variation of the Hotpoint? or the EE? Or something else entirely?
Curious that EE stil had not got that hot water filling business sorted out, it had been like that since the first model in 1960.
That Stokvis looks like it has an interesting control panel. I have an Ideal Home article from 1968 (I have previously posted it on here) which shows a Philips full size H axis washer - I wonder was that a successor to this one?
This must have almost been the last gasp of the Parnall Spinwasher. It such a shame that this model range did not continue. It is curious that the semi-auto version tested the previous year had a substantially cheaper list price (from memory it was about £85) which put it very much on a par with the top end twinnies like HMDL, Supertwin & Supermatic. I presume that the mechanicals would have been much the same for both machines and I would not have thought the electronics and associated equipment to make it fully automatic would have made such a difference (it does not seem like much now but it is more than 40% difference if I have my sums right). It appears that the Parnall models were the only British auto (or semi auto) washer to have a suds saving facility although the operation was very different to that of the US machines.
Al I wonder if its related to the Morphy Richards automatic?? I didnt know they did them until I saw a price list on a MR sales sheet - I assume they are derivitives of the EE regime machines...
I wonder if Servis have enough spares in stock for to be able to build another MK42 ?? they do state that they intend on stocking spares indefinitely...LOL
Keith