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Post# 490991 1/23/2011 at 15:14 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58  (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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I hope you guys enjoy this thread. This was a supplement produced for "Woman" magazine date September 1968. It was a promotion produced in conjunction with Hygenia, once the leading UK "quality" kitchen company before that great name was adultrated by MFI in the late 1970s.
Grab a coffee now, there is a lot to see Front cover 
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Post# 490992 , Reply# 1 1/23/2011 at 15:16 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 490995 , Reply# 2 1/23/2011 at 15:22 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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The first kitchen
Cooker (range): Tricity President Toaster: Hoover Washer: Hoover - This is the first incarnation of the Hoover "Automatic" range. Introduced at the same time as the flat front Keymatic, it was not quite a sophisticated as the KM although having a good range of programmes. No powder dispenser and vitreous enamel drum Fridge: Tricity Triumph These appliances were all regular size for the time 
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Post# 490996 , Reply# 3 1/23/2011 at 15:23 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 490997 , Reply# 4 1/23/2011 at 15:25 (4,844 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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The cooker in that first photo | ||
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Post# 490999 , Reply# 5 1/23/2011 at 15:27 (4,844 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 491000 , Reply# 6 1/23/2011 at 15:29 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Fridge: Electrolux
Dishwasher: Colston Jetstream Cooker: Belling Compact 4 For those of you who complain about small cookers (ranges) this one was about 19 inches wide, the Tricity President above was 21 inches. BTW the President had a double oven, combines with the grill (broiler) chamber, which is above the oven. In the Belling, the grill chamber is somewhat smaller, but there was a small storage chamber under the oven, covered by an enlarged (taller) oven door 
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Post# 491001 , Reply# 7 1/23/2011 at 15:30 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 491002 , Reply# 8 1/23/2011 at 15:36 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Washing Machine: Bendix Washer Dryer - just visible on left. It the same machine that Ricky5050 has been posting about in Imperial
Cooker: Moffat - No longer Canadian manufacture, Moffat was part of the same group as Tricity. Fridge: English Electric. Nowadays built in friges have doors to match the rest of the cabinets, but no such thing back then - this fridge is just a free standing version that has been built in. Note the cooker connection point just to the right (in the picture) of teh pendant light. In the UK cookers have their own independent circuit, and back then this was the almost universal control box. Switch on the left is a main switch for the cooker, with a switched socket (also comnmon in UK) to right. 
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Post# 491003 , Reply# 9 1/23/2011 at 15:38 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 491010 , Reply# 14 1/23/2011 at 15:46 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Although hardly visible the twin tub washer is a Hotpoint Supermatic. The design of gas cookers somewhat lagged behind that of electric - the gas oven could almost be from the 1950s. It was common for gas cookers to have an eye level grill, and this was a common (although not the only) gas solution to the split level issue - yes, take a chain saw to a standard gas cooker :)
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Post# 491011 , Reply# 15 1/23/2011 at 15:49 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 491012 , Reply# 16 1/23/2011 at 15:50 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 491016 , Reply# 18 1/23/2011 at 16:00 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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The other side.
Dishwasher by Kenwood, I am not aware of one of these being collected, so far. Single oven and grill by Creda. In addition there is an additional "foldaway" grill in the foreground by Cannon - I think this had a rotesserie as well. The hob is comprised of Creda "Quick Discs", these were solid plates (the only UK manufactured ones at the time as far as I know) supplied individually (but with a common control panel to control 2, 3 or 4 discs) and could be arranged exactly how teh customer wanted them as they are cut individually into the counter. This design was quite forward thinking in having the dishwasher at eye level, even stil hardly seen in the UK 
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Post# 491018 , Reply# 19 1/23/2011 at 16:02 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Post# 491020 , Reply# 20 1/23/2011 at 16:06 (4,844 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 491021 , Reply# 21 1/23/2011 at 16:09 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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The utility area
Well spotted Bob :) The washing machine and dryer are English Electric and, just as the first series, are based on Westinghouse designs. The dryer was also "badged" as Hoover. English Electric were the first to offer stacked units (with the first series), I dont think Hoover were offering a stacked kit at this time. Within 5 years every Uk manufacturer would offer staking kits for their washers and dryers, acknowledging and to an extent, promoting the purchase of tumble dryers in the UK. Odd that they do not feature a steam iron in teh feature, although dry irons were still quite popular. I would have put the wall phone in the kitchen myself 
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Post# 491022 , Reply# 22 1/23/2011 at 16:14 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Conclusions
I hope you enjoyed looking through this very long thread.
Whilst fitted kitchens had been around in the UK since the 1930s, they were rather the exception than the rule, and custom built at that. This is the start of start of modular units, more affordable, and showing housewives that they could achieve the fitted luxery looks that the could only see in magazines. As I say, many kitchens just came with a sink and not much else - not that there was a lot of room for much else anyway. All part of establishment of the desire for the better life rather than the "make do" attitude that had been around for so long, and to a large extent leading to the explosion of self assembly kitchens (and plenty POS at that) that began in the late 1970s and continues to this day. The thing that strickes me is that, after 42 years, not that much has changed on the kitchen scene. Yes we have microwave ovens and more, but apart from the decoration, not that much has changed - look at an Ikea catalogue (and I am not critizing Ikea) to see that. Al | ||
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Post# 491040 , Reply# 36 1/23/2011 at 16:51 (4,844 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Dishwashers
Bob,
Dishwashers had been on sale in this country since the 1950s, but I would say it was really only from the mid-1970s that they really began to to cross the aspiration horizon as more and more models became available, my parents bought their first dishwaher in 1976 largely at my prompting (nagging???) but even then they were unusual. As ever, space in the British kitchen is the problem, and the market got a major lift up with the indroduction of 45cm (18inch) width models in the 1990s. Although dishwashers are a GREAT deal more common now, they are by no means universal Al | ||
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Post# 491197 , Reply# 38 1/24/2011 at 05:09 (4,843 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Glad you enjoyed it and apologies for all the spelling mistakes.
Al | ||
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Post# 491227 , Reply# 39 1/24/2011 at 11:44 (4,843 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Wow! | ||
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Post# 491368 , Reply# 41 1/25/2011 at 07:00 (4,842 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Thank you Al Very interesting, but in the 90's we started getting European design magazines over here that took kitchen design to a real up market look and functionality. We also got Australian design magazines that, I think, really influenced American kitchen design, so I am surprised at your comment about how things have not changed much since then.
In those old photos I see some real blatant kitchen blunders, like backing a cooker up against wall in a corner, a real no-no! | ||
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Post# 491380 , Reply# 42 1/25/2011 at 08:20 (4,842 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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British Kitchen Design Late 1968!! | ||
| Post# 491466 , Reply# 43 1/25/2011 at 17:23 (4,842 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
Peter.....
...it's quite simple really...
They were considered both here and in the UK as a luxury item. Much of this can be traced back to the financial cost of World War Two WW2 had done incredible damage to British (and European) infrastructure that required certain materials be restricted. Steel is a good example. The original Land Rover is aluminium clad because Rover couldn't get steel. Exports were paramount to earning income which often meant domestic supply suffered and everything was expensive as a result. We weren't hit like the UK from a military point of view, but we were not in the same situation that the US was post WW2 either. BUT, our wool and wheat industry's were doing amazing things. It is quite true when people say that 'Australia rode on the sheep's back through the 1950's and into the 1960's'. You also need to remember that whilst automatic washing machines were just starting out in the UK (and Australia for that matter) in the early to mid 1960's, they had been around for 15-20 years in the US because of several key reasons. - the Lend Lease program meant that the UK and Australia + others owed America huge amounts of money for WW2 supplies. Exports were key to paying this off, not domestic consumption - America had a HUGE population to satisfy demands and support industry - America had been producing arms/tanks/ships (liberty tanker anyone?) - you name it, so had amazing capacity for manufacturing that needed to be used to employ people returning from war. The UK was given 50 years + 5 years deferred @ 2% to repay Lend Lease obligations. The last payment was made on 29th December, 2006.... Come the 1960's, materials were easier for manufacturers to get and most people could afford a twin tub, which was a step up on the neighbours wringer machine, but a full automatic was beyond their reach. Not much was different here. Wringer machines had been around since the 1920's and twin tubs since the 1950's. Semi-automatics in Oz (the machine does it all, but you have to switch between stages....no auto advance) were available from the mid 1950's and were more popular than automatics until the mid/late 1960's... Automatics didn't get into swing in the UK until the early-mid 1970's when sales (and this is a guess at the dates) of automatics over took other varieties. It was similar here, maybe a couple of years earlier. Dishwashers on the other hand, whilst people wanted them, were often difficult to accommodate in a small British kitchen. More often than not, kitchens in the UK also contain the washing machine, dryer (if any), a spinner if required AND a dishwasher. There isn't the allocatable space in many homes for all of these unless the kitchen has been remodeled. Frankly, the washing machine was more important...and if a low speed spin model, so was the spinner.... I'm guessing that dishwashers really started to take off in the UK about the same time as here - early 1980's. Automatics washers were by now king of the laundry and the next 'must have' gadget was a dishwasher which was now becoming more affordable. Fully fitted kitchens had been common here since the 1950's and pretty much universal since the late 1960's, but in the UK, it wasn't unusual to buy 'units' - they weren't always 'custom' or 'fitted' until the late 1970's (possibly 1980's) and you can still just buy 'units' now.... Fitted kitchens allow all the space to be used more effectively. Dishwashers, washing machines etc. can now be plumbed in rather than 'wheeled' to the sink - they have a home, a place to live. ...so cost, influenced by government requirements for exports, internal house space along with restricted supply of materials prevented the UK from having the appliance boom that America had from the 1950's... | ||
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Post# 491467 , Reply# 44 1/25/2011 at 17:26 (4,842 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles) |
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Yeah, loved this too, lots of mega-cool stuff!
Regarding Dawn Paterson looking older, it must have something to do with the name Dawn - Dawn Davenport looked a little older too back in the early '70s, but she still made a splash in life. | ||
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Post# 491572 , Reply# 45 1/26/2011 at 02:14 (4,841 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Thanks guys
I am so pleased that you enjoyed looking through this stuff. I have more of this sort of stuff when I have time to scan it
Simon Oh the sins that were committed with Fablon (Contact paper US) in the name of upgrading or updating LOLOLOL It could have been late "genuine" Hygena in 1979 but only just. I always LOVED the Creda brushed stainless hob and would collect one now if I could, but I have only seen one and it was not in good condition and on the Isle or Wight at that. And the Europa oven (Fan assisted or "Circulaire" of course) too, although I have always been torn between that and the stainless Tricity or the late Moffat - Hell, I want them all LOLOLOLOL As for Mary Whitehouse, to quote Billy Connelly, "how would you like a name that rhymes with toilet" LOLOL. But I agree with what you say, somehow people seemed to age younger then, but maybe it is just the styles. Jon It always seemed to me that American kitchens were what we aspired too, personally I always wanted teh Bewitched kitchen V1. Whilst i agree about cookers in a corner, I cannot begin to tell you how many I have seen in that location over the years, it was really very common. Peter In fact there are dishwashers in two of the schemes, no.2 and the "dream" scheme (beside the oven) - but they were VERY unusual. Both machines were British made and small by US standards. The Colston (scheme 2) was frankly a POS, I would LOVE to get my hands on a Kenwood as shown in the "dream scheme" Chris Bang on target, you have set it out much more clearly than I ever could, thank you :) Hydralique "Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich RIGHT out in class ...." LOLOL Al | ||
| Post# 491699 , Reply# 46 1/26/2011 at 18:05 (4,841 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Post# 492183 , Reply# 47 1/28/2011 at 18:17 (4,839 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Not so classic British design | ||
| Post# 492418 , Reply# 48 1/29/2011 at 15:30 (4,838 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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