Zoppas Stovella Dishwasher?????

[a440]

This indeed looks Hobart - Kitchenaid design.
I remember seeing a very old Stovella (Early 60's) on the Internet and it had a cast iron wash arm just like the Hobart's from the same period. Could it have been an old Consumer Reports issue?

 

[brisnat81]

Michael's mum had the Simpson/Bosch shown in the pics, her's has never been used, but has deteriated from age. It was the first plastic tubbed machine I'd ever seen in Australia. I've not been interested enough in it to try and source parts to try and bring it back to life.

Nobody has mentioned the local Dishlex in the list of machines available in the late 70's. I've always wondered what their country of origin is. I've got an earlier one that is more waste king on the inside, but I've never discovered where the late 70's until the mid 90's design was sourced from.

 

[ronhic]

Dishlex

machines were originally labeled as 'Dishlex SMEG'....

At some point they became part of Vulcan and then when Vulcan disappeared, part of Chef and then bundled together with Hoover/Westinghouse/Simpson etc to eventually become part of Electrolux.

http://www.smeg.com.au/about-smeg-australia/

 

[aussie-plugs]

FWIW ...

I'm sure these were sold in AU with a Dishlex brand back in the late 60s/early 70s.

Lavastoviglia is Italian for "dishwasher". The "stoviglia" part suggests "service" or "place setting". The "Stovella" brand may have been a sound-pun on that word in Italian, much as "Dishlex" conveys an association between "dishes" and "electricity" in English

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Stovella wasn't a Brand but a model from Zoppas.
And It was since the beginning when it wqw still a company on it's own.
Later when Zoppas got acquired by Zanussi they still made stovella model dishwasher.
It was a model name, pretty much like Favorit for AEG dishwashers and Lavatherm for dryers.
Stoviglie in Italian means all what concerns dishware. It may be dishes, glassew, mugs and pots...it's "stoviglie" lava-stoviglie=dish washer

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Stovella in italian anyways gives you the idea of a old lady washing dishes but turned in machine, like Cinderella for chimney ash for English speakers
That's the association as a bilingual living in Italy I attribute to the name "Stovella".