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Post# 537080   8/15/2011 at 08:02 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537081 , Reply# 1   8/15/2011 at 08:04 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537082 , Reply# 2   8/15/2011 at 08:07 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537084 , Reply# 3   8/15/2011 at 08:08 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537085 , Reply# 4   8/15/2011 at 08:10 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537086 , Reply# 5   8/15/2011 at 08:13 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537087 , Reply# 6   8/15/2011 at 08:15 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537089 , Reply# 7   8/15/2011 at 08:27 (4,609 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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My mind was very much exercised by what was sitting to the right of the machine the drier was sitting on. Despite the fact that it was sitting on a relativly modern Indesit washer my mind ran to it perhaps being a wide body Hoover Automatic (not Keymatic) washer from that tantalising corner. Sadly, it was a Potterton central heating boiler - oh well ....... I wonder what other machines it has sat on over the years, the 99 year old lady who owned it died last year sadly and her son who was attending for the collection of the machine would not have had a clue, if he could actually have heard me.....
Its not half heavy too as I had to carry it myself out to the car, about half as much again of the weight of my 9 year old Hotpoint condensor drier. I will not be keeping this myself, I believe it is destinied to return to the land of its origin, forty years on :) Al |
Post# 537136 , Reply# 8   8/15/2011 at 11:29 (4,609 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)   |   | |
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Post# 537150 , Reply# 9   8/15/2011 at 12:28 (4,609 days old) by aquarius8000 ()   |   | |
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Congratulations!Great find! |
Post# 537161 , Reply# 10   8/15/2011 at 13:00 (4,609 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Glad you picked it up Al, a lovely addition and an icon in the line up and timeline of the Hoover History!!
I never saw one of these in the shops or knew anyone that had one, Paul tells me it would have matched my aunts 3243 Keymatic, Thank goodness Aunty Margaret bought a late keymatic and an early new released full panel dryer!!...LOl It could only team up with a half panel washer - just doesnt look right IMHO |
Post# 537206 , Reply# 13   8/15/2011 at 16:35 (4,608 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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Paul
I am not sure what you mean by lack of undercarriage as it appears identical to the one shown in your thread. What I can say is that the rollers of the wheels have been removed, presumably to stop it moving when on top of the Indesit or some other machine which would not accomodate the original stacking frame. Seeing the Matchbox Auto beside the wide body Keymatic it is not beyond the bounds of possibality that Freemans bought up a load of old stock, and indeed that may have been why the the Matchbox Keymatic was delayed. Given its very keen price I would have thought the old wide body auto would have flown off the shelves, but the Keymatic, maybe not so much so. And again, your recollection of a wide body auto but with powder drawer might be another indicator of an early special again to clear stock. Mike, I agree about the "half panel" - it always looked wrong to me, even back in the early 1970s when the range was introduced - it really did make the BOL machine look like a BOL and really emphasised the lack of a powder drawer, and as you say, the dryer just looks odd. perhaps it was to provide a decent production run of each style of body, but it just seems crazy to me that they just did not have one style (as they did later) and be done with it - once a Cost Accountant, always a Cost Accountant - yes folks I am one of those bean counters always being blamed for the decline in equipment standards :( I wonder who won the other 3022 (funny how two came on at almost the same time) although i could make a good guess :) Al |
Post# 537215 , Reply# 16   8/15/2011 at 16:56 (4,608 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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You know Paul, looking at that picture above all the autos appear to have full width facias on them. And, just because the Keymatic is shown, does not necessarily mean that they had one actually working - it may just have been a prototype.
I must also say, I am amazed at where you get all this stuff :) Now, just to annoy you, I have a recollection of another hoover model. It would be back in 1980 at the time when my Mum's first Zanussi gave up the ghost and had to be replaced. It was definatly a Hoover Aristocrat model, I think it had a recessed rather than proud door and whilst it had a powder drawer it had onely two compartments, there was nowhere for fabric conditioner - I remember this as a particular point my mother raised against it. I THINK it had an 800 spin, for in that regard it would have been the same as the 218T my Mum eventually bought - i am sure she would have gone for a faster spin othewise Al |