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Which Magazine January 1979 |
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Post# 414213   2/10/2010 at 13:20 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414215 , Reply# 1   2/10/2010 at 13:21 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414216 , Reply# 2   2/10/2010 at 13:21 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414217 , Reply# 3   2/10/2010 at 13:22 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414218 , Reply# 4   2/10/2010 at 13:22 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414219 , Reply# 5   2/10/2010 at 13:23 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414220 , Reply# 6   2/10/2010 at 13:23 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414221 , Reply# 7   2/10/2010 at 13:24 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414222 , Reply# 8   2/10/2010 at 13:25 (5,188 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Post# 414231 , Reply# 9   2/10/2010 at 14:32 (5,188 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 414233 , Reply# 10   2/10/2010 at 14:43 (5,188 days old) by bertrum ()   |   | |
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Great machines there. Which magazine is *hit now and *hit in 1979. How can you judge on the quality of a brand new machine? |
Post# 414237 , Reply# 11   2/10/2010 at 15:13 (5,188 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 414250 , Reply# 12   2/10/2010 at 17:44 (5,188 days old) by autorinse_john (Staffordshire - UK)   |   | |
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Post# 414282 , Reply# 13   2/10/2010 at 19:30 (5,187 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 414357 , Reply# 15   2/10/2010 at 22:57 (5,187 days old) by favorit ()   |   | |
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was made by the old SILTAL company in Abbiategrasso (Milan). Guessed they sold only in our internal market only, cause they were smurfs if compared with Zanussi, Candy, Indesit and Merloni |
Post# 414359 , Reply# 16   2/10/2010 at 23:05 (5,187 days old) by favorit ()   |   | |
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Old thread where MatchboxPaul posted a shot of that very BK serie CLICK HERE TO GO TO favorit's LINK |
Post# 414388 , Reply# 17   2/11/2010 at 02:12 (5,187 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Post# 414441 , Reply# 18   2/11/2010 at 10:48 (5,187 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Those Bauknecht models were better built than the newer ones, that's for sure, but I don't think they were as some of the other German brands. Indeed interesting that they became the name Beekay in the UK. I love the Bosch washer/dryer, I was always fascinated by it. One dial was the cycle selector IIRC there were 20 programmes. The timer was behind a small window I think. The other dial is for the drying programmes. Probably only time controlled. The Bendix was sold in the Netherlands mostly by the department store V&D (fully: Vroom & Dreesmann, by friends of mine always referred to as Vulgar and Disgusting LOL). Those were reliable AND affordable machines. I still remember how the timer felt. If you turned it you felt a heavy resistance. Creda started selling washers in the Netherlands in the eighties I suppose. It was then when I saw a Creda washing machine for the first time while the smaller Creda dryers were on the market here long before that. I had never heard of the Hirundo brand, but it shouts indeed Indesit. I really love that Miele toploader washer/dryer. I have always had a weak spot for H-axis toploaders. The built in dryer makes it even better I guess. There were more German brands that had a topload washer/dryer combo sooner or later. I remember specific models from AEG and Siemens. The Miele toploader was a rare specimen, I think that it was only made for a short while. The Philips 707 is a beauty! I love those older Philips models with the timer on the left. There was indeed no separate spin on those models because the spin started with a drum full of water. When you stopped the machine in the middle of a spin and wanted to restart it would refuse that, it would only pump. If you wanted a spin you had to set the timer on the last rinse and do a full rinse before it would do a spin again. BTW, I love the label "worth thinking about"! |
Post# 414450 , Reply# 19   2/11/2010 at 11:34 (5,187 days old) by robm (Buxted)   |   | |
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Hello all I'm glad you all liked the scans. They are fiddly like Mike says but well worth it if you have a moment. I notice the article speaks well of the Hirundo. I have seen them mentioned on here before. Someone posted some brochures in Italian. Basically Indesit as Louis says. I just wonder how they differ mechanically from the slow spin versions. I always thought Creda was the fore-runner of the 1980s Hoovers. Like Mike says the doors were very similar. One big difference I remember was the glass window which was much slimmer on the Hoover machines. I remember my Nan's neighbour having the 10500 and it was a great machine with fantastic almost spaceship noises. Rob |