Bloody hell Paul hahaha, you trying to kill us. Am in heaven right now! Thanks for sharing, I shall looking forward to the oncoming threads ;)

Hass.

The folks next door to us had a 3235 Automatic.

She used to have a strange plumbing set-up and would attach the hose to the hot tap, start the machine off and then change to the cold one once the program was running.  The tap adapter was always covered by a tea cloth because it used to squirt water around the edges.

The drain hose when though a hole in he wall, on the out side was a length of guttering taking the wastewater to the drain about 7 ft away.

Strange how seeing the photos bring the memories back.  I can even remember what happened to this machine, the suspension went on it and the drum was lopsided, then the other side went and the folks got them selves a service super twin.

Fantastic Thread thanks Paul.

My grandmother in the UK had a second hand A3354 Electron 800 for about two years IIRC. This was her first Automatic she had bought after going through a few Hoover wringers and then a Servis Supertwin which she absolutely loved, sadly banished to the coal shed after its spinner motor died. I wonder if it is still there, i hope it is!

The A3354 she loved because of its Automatic quality, she could just start it and leave it and go to work down't pub (which was called The Peggy Tub in Stocksbridge near Sheffield, coincidence much?) and come back and it was finished. As time went on she used the Delay Start dial, i remember she used to turn it to 12 before she went to work in the evenings, come home, go to bed around midnight and by the time she got up at 6am it was on what she used to call its 'middle spin' (the machine span twice in the cottons bit, once in the between the four rinses and the final 800spin).

She used programs C and J mainly. C was 95* for all her sheets towels and nighties and such which could stand that temp. J was Minimum Iron 50* for all her skirts, blouses and bras and such. She occasionally used the White Nylon program for her net curtains (which got heavily abused due to her chain smoking 30 Berkley Red a day!) I remember she made sure they went in folded neatly as she reckoned they had more chance coming out folded.......riiiiight.

She never used the soap dispenser button release, not sure wether she knew what it did to be honest, she always just grabbed underneath it and pulled. Crease Guard button was never used either, she just got me to 'get up and shift wesher on will ya love'. This phrase became more prominent when its timer motor conked out and had to be manually shifted on through its cycle all the time, bless her for putting up with it although she only did her washing when i was around on the weekend because her arthritis was so bad it was easier to get me to take care of shifting it on instead of her having to get up and down all the time.

Its amazing when you see these things how much you remember as you start to think, like a few memories in the back of the mind come out stretch their little memory legs haha, great.

Reminds me of being a kid again, i love it!

I'll be back there in the UK in November this year, I think she said shes got an Indesit now, wonder what I am going to make of that!

Here is the great woman when she came for recent visit to us in Australia, bless her she taught me everything i know about how to wash properly, using hot temps and good detergents and the benefits of a high speed spin dry!

Matt

hey quick question guys

just looking through this thread again i noticed the Hoover Selectamatic, never seen one of these before, can anyone explain how the Selectamatic system worked? I'm guessing its something to do with the timer and you select a letter and press start and that dial does not move its the timeline in the console which indicates the sequence. Am i right? :-P