Robert--great scans and fun new addition to this website.

How many times can Easy print AUTOMATIC on a machine that is entirely MANUAL! Hilarious. But Spindriers do a good job and are fun to own.

Someone suggested here previously that the "automatic" term applied to the spinner, which handles an entire load as opposed to a wringer, in which each piece must be fed through one at a time.  Otherwise I agree with the statement that nothing else about these machines is automatic.

. . . fully automatics for the most part had not, but the Daily Doctrine document dates to 1963, by which time fully automatics were the dominant domestic machines.   It would have made more sense for Easy to have changed their strategy since the term "automatic" was not only over-used in their literature, but also not applicable since consumers by that time equated "automatic" with "fully automatic." 

It has been pointed out by one Easy owner that their system allowed faster processing of laundry, since it offered the ability to wash another load simultaneously with spin drying the previous one.  Perhaps if Easy had hyped this advantage over the fully automatic system they might have maintained a somewhat higher portion of home laundry market share for a little longer, as their "automatic" claim was likely considered misleading by many consumers.