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Gala GM 60
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Post# 636484   11/4/2012 at 13:31 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

pic of the full body




Post# 636485 , Reply# 1   11/4/2012 at 13:32 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

the control panel

Post# 636486 , Reply# 2   11/4/2012 at 13:33 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

Program knob

Post# 636487 , Reply# 3   11/4/2012 at 13:35 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

the drawer that has the Gala logo on from this machine-2008(also less)

Post# 636488 , Reply# 4   11/4/2012 at 13:36 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

option buttons+ignition light

Post# 636489 , Reply# 5   11/4/2012 at 13:38 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

Temperature knob

Post# 636491 , Reply# 6   11/4/2012 at 13:40 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

Drum with door closed

Post# 636492 , Reply# 7   11/4/2012 at 13:41 (4,189 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

drum with door open

Post# 636700 , Reply# 8   11/5/2012 at 09:10 (4,189 days old) by chris74 ()        
Thanks for the pics...

I bet it is somehow rebadged, an Indesit or Hotpoint Ariston machine?

Post# 636704 , Reply# 9   11/5/2012 at 09:26 (4,189 days old) by HotpointFan (United Kingdom)        
Chris

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Nope, its a Meriloni machine, common in the UK as Servis.

Post# 637803 , Reply# 10   11/9/2012 at 14:36 (4,184 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        

that's right HotpointFan. though it doesn't look like it copy/paste.
RPM not higher than 500
good at washing but bad at spinning/spindrying ;)


Post# 637833 , Reply# 11   11/9/2012 at 16:49 (4,184 days old) by liberator1509 (Ireland)        
Malta

That is a Merloni, rebadged for an importer in Malta - Frank Borda Ltd. AEI exported UK Hotpoint machines as AEI Gala to a number of markets including Malta - presumably Borda was the importer. The Gala name has been kept in use there for machines sourced from other manufacturers.

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Post# 637959 , Reply# 12   11/10/2012 at 05:10 (4,184 days old) by chris74 ()        
Thanks for the explanation

500 Euros for the 9 kilos machine, well, that is...cheap.

Post# 638028 , Reply# 13   11/10/2012 at 10:01 (4,184 days old) by elie55121 (Lebanon)        
reply to Malta thread

the new Gala washers u posted a link for are not for Merloni,they are for Vestel(were actually) since Gala closed in 2008

Post# 638171 , Reply# 14   11/11/2012 at 03:57 (4,183 days old) by liberator1509 (Ireland)        
reply to Malta thread

Yes the current machines are Vestel, but must have been sourced from Merloni at some point. The Gala brand did not however belong to Merloni - originally it was used by AEI Hotpoint (now of course owned by Indesit) for export models as AEI Hotpoint did not have rights to use the Hotpoint brand outside of the UK until the 1970s - so one finds Hotpoint of the 50s to 70s sold as BTH, GALA, English Electric etc overseas. Hotpoint sometimes used the Gala and EE brands for certain in-store specials in the UK after this point, but only very occasionally.

It seems that in Malta, the importer has kept a brand ownership arrangement for the Gala name and of course could have sourced the machines from anywhere - Merloni being an obvious choice until they closed. I wonder if we have any members from Malta who know more about this importer? Maybe someone has an older AEI model?


Post# 638173 , Reply# 15   11/11/2012 at 05:15 (4,183 days old) by chris74 ()        
Hotpoint now owned by Indesit...

...and Merloni closed down? New to me...

Post# 638800 , Reply# 16   11/13/2012 at 16:09 (4,180 days old) by liberator1509 (Ireland)        
Merloni closed down?

A tale of two companies -Antonio Merloni produced machines for third-party rebranding in various markets (in the UK as Servis, Proline, Diplomat etc), required a government bailout in 2010, and was sold in 2011, with only some activities being continued. Not to be confused with Merloni Elettrodomestici (now the Indesit Company) - both companies being owned at some stage by different members of the Merloni family!

Post# 638805 , Reply# 17   11/13/2012 at 16:36 (4,180 days old) by hoovermatic (UK)        
Servis Rainwave

I had a Rainwave in a rental property in Bedford in the 1990's that looked very similar to this, especially the drum. It was a good machine except that the profile of the baffles was so low that it wouldn't turn over a load on the wool programme. In order to get it to tumble you had to put the clothes in having wet them in the sink!


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