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Post# 150804 , Reply# 2   8/27/2006 at 06:47 (6,444 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)   |   | |
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Hi Brandon All those dryers used to make that sound , until the spring sprang and snapped, then the door would drop!!! They never made washers but the sister company was Creda, who invented the first UK Spinner and later creda washers etc... Chris, TI is Tube Investments linked with Creda and Parnall Yates Bristol etc...Purveyors of fine laundry appliances from the 60`s. Factoids: "In 1919 Creda became one of the founder members of Tube Investments Ltd and in 1945 a factory was purchased in Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent. The head office of Creda was transferred from Oldbury in the West Midlands to Blythe Bridge in 1959. Some of the developments that Creda brought to the UK market include the induction hob, the microwave circulaire oven and the first ever self cleaning oven called 'Autoclean'. An induction hob is one that heated the saucepans directly by creating a magnetic field which the pan transferred into heat. The microwave oven was a full size fan oven with grill which incorporated a microwave option within it. In the early 1970's Creda purchased TI Jackson which included a factory in Yate near Bristol which was subsequently used to manufacture tumble dryers. Creda in fact produced the first ever spin dryer and the first fully automatic tumble dryer. In 1987 Creda was purchased by the GEC Group and in 1989 became part of a new division of the GEC Group called 'General Domestic Appliances'" Mike CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK |
Post# 150810 , Reply# 3   8/27/2006 at 07:13 (6,444 days old) by lavamat_jon (UK)   |   | |
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If I remember rightly, wasn't Jackson Hotpoint's ultra budget range, rebadging older First Edition washers, before Merloni took Hotpoint over? Jon |