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Post# 604914 6/20/2012 at 02:38 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk  (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604915 , Reply# 1 6/20/2012 at 02:38 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604916 , Reply# 2 6/20/2012 at 02:39 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604917 , Reply# 3 6/20/2012 at 02:40 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604919 , Reply# 4 6/20/2012 at 02:40 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604920 , Reply# 5 6/20/2012 at 02:41 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604921 , Reply# 6 6/20/2012 at 02:42 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604922 , Reply# 7 6/20/2012 at 02:42 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604923 , Reply# 8 6/20/2012 at 02:43 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604925 , Reply# 9 6/20/2012 at 02:45 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Post# 604930 , Reply# 10 6/20/2012 at 03:17 (4,321 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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| Post# 604933 , Reply# 11 6/20/2012 at 04:41 (4,321 days old) by paulinroyton (B) | ||
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Hi Hi Mike. A great read. Love reading about vintage appliances. I have some old which magazines some from 1966 onwards. Cheers Paul | ||
| Post# 604936 , Reply# 12 6/20/2012 at 05:00 (4,321 days old) by OPTIMA (Cumbria England) | ||
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Post# 604977 , Reply# 13 6/20/2012 at 07:53 (4,321 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Thanks, Mike. I used to read old Which tests where they reported on the rinsing performance. Wonder when that stopped. | ||
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Post# 604987 , Reply# 14 6/20/2012 at 09:33 (4,321 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Numbers do you relate to??
Mine are 2, 5 & 7...Lol Al, yes great reference, always comes in handy Hi Paul, yes same here, its amazing what you miss on the first read, or someone else will see something else!! Craig, yes I jolly well hope so, would be great to find one!! Tom, will have to go back and check about that, not sure...How do these rate to your old CR reports?? | ||
| Post# 604996 , Reply# 15 6/20/2012 at 10:14 (4,321 days old) by electron1100 (England) | ||
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| Post# 605029 , Reply# 16 6/20/2012 at 13:22 (4,320 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
Mike,
Thank you so much for posting these reports. Takes me back to being a child and spending Saturday afternoons in Birkenhead reference library where my mum worked looking through the back issues of Which? magazines at washing machines and vacuums, longing for the Supermatic to break down so I could get my Mum to buy one of these fascinating automatics!!
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Post# 605039 , Reply# 17 6/20/2012 at 14:01 (4,320 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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| Post# 605051 , Reply# 18 6/20/2012 at 14:50 (4,320 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
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Have been re reading the reports....Wow! Shows how little water our modern auto's use. Admittedly in 1977 4 rinses were standard, 5 rinses on the low spin Indesits. Amazing to think my washer uses 49 litres for a 13lb 60deg cotton wash and, for example, the Servis Selectomatic used 150 litres for an economy 95 deg wash, which I assume means it was in effect a longer 60deg wash.
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Post# 605054 , Reply# 19 6/20/2012 at 15:02 (4,320 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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What...Selectronic.... | ||
| Post# 605062 , Reply# 20 6/20/2012 at 15:13 (4,320 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
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Ooops,
Sorry Mike.....been LONG day. Didn't read that properly before I posted. It is interesting how times change. Having said that, all those water guzzling automatics with suprisingly long wash times, then there is the Hotpoint 1828, relatively low water usage, reasonably short wash times.....In my opinion ahead of it's time and a flipping good machine, a happy medium if ever there was one.
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| Post# 605075 , Reply# 21 6/20/2012 at 16:24 (4,320 days old) by turnamat (Germany) | ||
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Post# 605722 , Reply# 24 6/23/2012 at 03:14 (4,318 days old) by ricky5050 (Durham Britain) |
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Fascinating!
Thanks. Mike!
It's fascinating reading old which mags like these, especially the prices!, I ve been doing some rough sums, in 1977 average weekly wage was £93 and average washer was say £250 so it would be 2.7 weeks of salary to pay for it, today average weekly wage is £722 and let's say an average washer is £350 it only takes 1/2 week now to pay for one. Which (no pun ) is why people of that era ie our parents were so precious about things they bought or annoyed if we broke them ahem!. And it's no wonder why today there is a move towards "nipping down to tesco and buying a new washer as the last one has broken it was ancient tho we'd had it 3 years!" mentality as they have become so cheap they are almost disposable. I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing , just a reality. What were your favourite numbers? Ha ha yes i remember this , still do with mams hottie hitting 23 this year , but in 1982 my parents replaced their 9 year old Hoover match box with a shiny new servis slimline 320 washer and matching 220 dryer, it wasn't the most reliable as came with a drum fault and seemed to eat door seals, but perhaps this was due to them, getting a pub in 1984 ( don't do it ) so there was always a load of towels table cloths and bar mats to wash as well a family clothes. My mam used to say "bang those towels on a 1&9" as prog 1&9 had been combined as a boil wash, she used to use ariel liquid in a areilette filling it half full of liquid and half with domestos! We never had any issues with mould or smellls ha ha , but perhaps that's why so many door seals where needed. The washer died in 1989 with very worn bearings and the drum pulley snapped off. The dryer drum split and failed in 1991. Oh if only these magazines had time machines attached ! Thanks again Richard | ||
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Post# 606333 , Reply# 25 6/26/2012 at 03:08 (4,315 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Hi Richard, yes to the time machine, I laugh because at least people seemed to use the different programmes back then, either 1,2,5, & 7, or C, D,E & G...LOl and know what type of wash they did, those numbers and letters where very well used!!
Funny you should say that bout the Servis slimline pair used in a pub, I remember seeing the same set in TWO guest houses in Chester that had the same in the laundry area. Hi Callum, yes the reports of today certainly do vary in what they tell you about testing the machines of today, Paul , yes all those style changes, although most of the machines in the report I would say 70% where not made here, 
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Post# 606334 , Reply# 26 6/26/2012 at 03:14 (4,315 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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