...I think Bosch/Siemens bought in the Balay machines and rebadged them as their basic line. The Bosch machines had model numbers starting with WFB. I loved the slightly later version I had for a while - basic but flexible programming and generally very sturdy in construction.

The wash water level looks higher than it was on later machines, where it sat well below the rim of the drum.

I take it the IRIS system was some kind of water/electricity saving system, in which case the BSH rebadges had it but by another name...something like the "2D Aquaspa" system.

If programme 11 for wool is anything like on the Bosch WFB I had, it's a short cycle with short agitation/long pause wash action (not slow tumbles though), at high water level achieved by timed fill, then two rinses and a final pulsed spin at maximum speed - perhaps 3 or 4 short pulses.

The programming strikes me in retrospect as being characteristic of European machines with induction motors, even though they were - as far as I know - fitted with brush motors.

Just for the sake of clarity, I believe these machines were all made by Balay themselves, but BSH bought in some of them to sell under their Bosch and Siemens brands as low-cost models - they did state they were made in Spain, after all. This may well have been before the brands were effectively part of one another: Bosch certainly seems to have had a fairly long tradition of taking machines from other manufacturers and applying their own badge. I've seen an older catalogue where they rebadged a Philco machine, for example.

I've seen similar Balay machines rebadged under the Constructa brand on YouTube too...