Why UK machines usually different from US

[solsburian]

When we can afford to get the kitchen done we'll probably get a Miele WD.

To be honest I'm not a fan ether of the Candy "Hoover" machines but its quite handy with its slim depth and the dryer side is not too bad ether. However on its first wash, when on the final spin, it was so unbalanced that it knocked out one of the plugs covering the holes for the transit bolts! I just hope it can last a couple of years!

Unfortunately my Grandma who had the Liberator chucked it out when she got a Bungalow. She also had a Hotpoint dryer stacked on top of it (it was the next generation one as it had a clear door and didn't have the pasted buttons). She only ever used it as a store for the soap powder!

 

[favorit]

OMG !!!!!!!

Here she is !!!!

Thanks Louis for posting that Constructa dishwasher with the window She's the very one we were talkin' about time ago

AquaCycle, what about that slimline Zan-o-Lux dishwasher ??
Is she nice at washing pots and pans even on the fast cycle ?

 

[foraloysius]

You're welcome Favorit, I just recently found a few pictures of it. Here is a picture of the inside.

 

[mrboilwash]

OMG now I`m getting excited, too !

Notice that dishwasher has 4 little seperate sprayarms for the bottom rack !
Have seen one of them in the trash when I was still a child but I didn`t know until now it was a Constructa.
Did they also come without a window ? I don`t seem to remember it had one...
This one and an old Bauknecht are the only German DWs I have ever seen with a plastic interior.

 

[foraloysius]

Actually there was a model without a window, at least Siemens sold the same machine without a window. It was a Siemens GS. According to the brochure I have (I must reinstall my scanner sometime) there was a model GS 12 (without water softener) and a model GS 13 (with water softener).

In the late seventies (early eighties?) Bosch and Siemens had a BOL dishwasher with a plastic interior (in the Dutch brochure the material was called Hostaleen PP). The Siemens model was the WG3800. I don't know what the equivalent Bosch model was but I know there was one, I once had a date with somebody who had a BOL Bosch dishwasher with plastic interior.

 

[chestermikeuk]

I once had a date with somebody who had a BOL Bosch dishwash

Louis you made me laugh after a heavy day with that line!! That could be straight out of a Victoria Wood Acorn Antiques sketch...LOL

Talking of British washing machines - my avatar pic is the first true all British Washing Machine - The Servis Model A produced 1929...about to undergo a spa & motor tuneup...only 50 of them ever produced and its thanks to the Spa of Neil (aka Fanny) that it was found in a local spares shop around the corner from the Servis HQ in Darlaston, West Midlands...

 

[aquacycle]

Favorit...

The Lux is absolutely brilliant! The longest cycle is about 55 minutes and washes everything without the need to rinse things in the sink before hand.

 

[solsburian]

Here are pics of our new Hoover WD and our old Bendix Compact. BTW After just over a week of owning the Hoover, it appears to have developed a fault!

 

[foraloysius]

Acorn Antiques

We should have a thread about that. I had never heard of it before. I saw a short clip, very amusing. It somehow reminded me of Last of the summer wine.

 

[vivalalavatrice]

Oh Louis!!!

That UNIMATIC!!!

 

[aquacycle]

solsburian..

..whats up with the Hoover?

 

[foraloysius]

Diomede

If you want to see such a Unimatic in real you should visit the V-Zug museum sometime in Zug, Switzerland. It's not very big, but there are some nice machines. I have been there some years ago and was allowed to make some pictures. The link goes to my photos.

BTW, it would be better to discuss the problems with that Hoover in a separate thread in the Deluxe Forum.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/560649698JLmCDp

 

[solsburian]

@aquacycle

It has a KG Mode that is supposed to weigh the laundry and adjust the time and spin, while it will weigh the laundry, after the incident with the out of balance spin, it will no longer indicate if KG mode has been enabled or not and it seems to be confused about the number of rinses its supposed to do. Furthermore, when I checked the filter, a chunk of concrete was wedged in the bottom of the cover and there were smaller traces of concrete around the handle of the pump cover. Since we’ve had it for just over a week, someone from Currys is coming out to check it.