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Thread Number: 52101
Early Servis superheat? |
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| Post# 745100 3/25/2014 at 17:38 (3,684 days old) by lancethecook (Driffield England) | ||
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I came across this photo and wondered what model this is. Looks like a superheat, clearly a Servis ,but I have never seen one with a hose on the outside like this one. I think its a gas heated model. 
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| Post# 745250 , Reply# 1 3/26/2014 at 03:35 (3,684 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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Post# 745255 , Reply# 2 3/26/2014 at 04:51 (3,684 days old) by chestermikeuk  (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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ServisAire Gas Burner... | ||
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Post# 745256 , Reply# 3 3/26/2014 at 04:54 (3,684 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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If you look at the picture  | ||
| Post# 745295 , Reply# 4 3/26/2014 at 10:07 (3,684 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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Hi Mike,
I know what you mean about the hose set-up, my early Superheat (i think also known as the MHP model) has a single lever on the top and the pump is engaged by moving a lever inside the machine, the MK2 had the operating lever on top. My Mk1 Superheat has the hose inside which you can pull out and store in a flick-out hook while the machine is in operation, the MK2 has the emptying socket inside the washtub. The MK1 has the long logo the MK2 is the iconic "V" style logo. I wonder if this machine was an early MK2. Interesting how machines had different variations. Cheers Keith | ||
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Post# 745309 , Reply# 5 3/26/2014 at 11:49 (3,683 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Gas? | ||
| Post# 745334 , Reply# 6 3/26/2014 at 14:35 (3,683 days old) by lancethecook (Driffield England) | ||
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The picture Is from an ideal home show book. It covers various eras with quite a few photos of home appliances but just two of washers. Here is another one , it doesn't mention what make the machine is but looks very similar to a Thor that I have 
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| Post# 745340 , Reply# 7 3/26/2014 at 15:21 (3,683 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
English wringer washers...
Hello to our English members...always enjoy seeing the wringer washer models from "across the pond." I find it interesting that Canada, being the "Dominion of Canada" before 1967, wasn't flooded with English models. I guess it makes sense that, sharing a land mass with the U.S.A., the models were common between our two countries.
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| Post# 745346 , Reply# 8 3/26/2014 at 15:49 (3,683 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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| Post# 748473 , Reply# 9 4/7/2014 at 14:18 (3,671 days old) by anthony (uk) | ||
i am | ||
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Post# 748482 , Reply# 10 4/7/2014 at 14:40 (3,671 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Gas Burner
Got it in one Anthony, a flexible gas pipe fed into the side of the washer and was lit producing the heat under the vitreous enamel washtub, the combustion gases then rose and exited through the holes around the top trim - it was called a "ServisAire" gas burner...they had them on the twinnys up to model 70...
They where sold under the slogan "Washes with Electric, Boils By Gas" 
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| Post# 748499 , Reply# 11 4/7/2014 at 15:46 (3,671 days old) by anthony (uk) | ||
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that facinating
my grandma had the all electric version loverly machine practically silent when running just the steady swish of the water .Was there some sort of ignition for the gas or was it lit with a match ? would love to see one just to see how everything was aranged underneath .a great idea these days we all take hot water on tap for granted but i remember quite clearly living in a house with only cold water and an ascot water heater there was a bath in the kitchen with a formica lid on it trying to fill that from the ascot could take quite a long time so mum would fill the hoovermatic twintub bring it to the boil then pump it into the bath add a bit of cold water and away you went
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| Post# 748640 , Reply# 12 4/8/2014 at 04:38 (3,671 days old) by keymatic (London / UK) | ||
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