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Thread Number: 57697
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Can anyone identify this 'mystery' washer dryer? |
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| Post# 801100 12/27/2014 at 16:23 (3,400 days old) by CandyD10_14X (London, United Kingdom) | ||
Hi all, hope you are all ok and having a good Christmas Holiday and looking forward to the New Year.
Was just looking through some old home videos of my parents in their flat in Wales (Abergele & Pensarn) and I noticed a very unusual looking washing machine that I've never seen before in the UK. See pictures attached: It's definitely not a Hotpoint or Hoover, the only thing I can think of, it looks very similar to the Italian make 'Zerowatt' or one of the Sangiorgio machines, but even there I cannot see resemblance. Either that or there could be a possibility of it being a 'Sculthess' (German make). The year in the video is 1995 if this helps, as well as this I do not believe this machine has an OOB sensor as I heard a few videos of it spinning quite unbalanced in the background. Cheers, I know all you washer-brainiacs will get it right (hopefully haha). Brandon. | ||
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| Post# 801115 , Reply# 1 12/27/2014 at 17:53 (3,399 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 801120 , Reply# 2 12/27/2014 at 18:04 (3,399 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 801146 , Reply# 3 12/27/2014 at 19:39 (3,399 days old) by Haxisfan (Europe - UK / Italy) | ||
I'll second Paulc on that...
I can recognise the cabinet, control panel (different colours), kick strip + filter and the glass bowl (not the door frame) as being the same as the Candy Domino machines. I guess the square door was fitted on these models to make them look different... in fact at first glimpse I wouldn't have thought it was a Candy: the penny dropped only when I read Paul's comment, and I also remember reading somewhere Candy was making these washer-dryers for Kelivinator in Europe.
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| Post# 801149 , Reply# 4 12/27/2014 at 20:04 (3,399 days old) by CandyD10_14X (London, United Kingdom) | ||
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Candy and Kelvinator
Hi Paul, Haxisfan.
Thank you for your contributions, I can now see what you mean about the lookalike to Candy Dominos, the soap drawer especially (which was kind of why I assumed I had seen a machine like it before), as well as this I have just been reading that in 1980, Candy Group acquired Kelvinator and also later bought Zerowatt into their group. I do not suppose any of you would have any pictures of this type of machine in a much clearer form? I'd like to see some more of these. Thanks :) Brandon. P.S. would anyone know of the model numbers of these machines? | ||
| Post# 801150 , Reply# 5 12/27/2014 at 20:17 (3,399 days old) by paulc (Edinburgh, Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 801197 , Reply# 6 12/28/2014 at 05:28 (3,399 days old) by CandyD10_14X (London, United Kingdom) | ||
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That's ok Paul, I did have a little nosy around the forums, and found some similar articles (brochures) with Kelvinator machines in the UK and a few that were basically re-badged Candy machines.
I'll have another look at the movie and see if I can notice anything else about the machine. And to show the resemblance, here is a picture of a Candy Domino D10.14X, I can see where you guys are coming from now. 
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