Thread Number: 62827
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Electrolux Twin Tub.... |
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Post# 853855   11/27/2015 at 10:55 (3,065 days old) by keymatic (London / UK)   |   | |
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Hi Guys,
Just wondered if anyone had any information or knew the dates of this machine ? It is an early Electrolux Twin Tub. I have had someone contact me saying that they have one, but it will be quite a journey. Cheers Keith
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Post# 853866 , Reply# 1   11/27/2015 at 13:33 (3,065 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 853882 , Reply# 2   11/27/2015 at 15:29 (3,065 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 853883 , Reply# 3   11/27/2015 at 15:33 (3,065 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Huh...wonder if it was 1941/2 (given that the date on the mixer was 1940) and Sweden wasn't involved in WW2 or if it was 1945/6 immediately post-war. I always was curious about "the home front" for the neutral countries in WW2--were the domestic manufacturers "conscripted" to export to earn hard currency, or were they relatively self-contained and un-rationed within the country. Sweden and Switzerland obviously had heavy manufacturing and technology that Portugal/Ireland didn't...believe I'd heard that the Swedish bearing manufacturers (SKF?) would sell to anyone with money during the war.
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Post# 853889 , Reply# 4   11/27/2015 at 16:24 (3,065 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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true about SKF selling bearings to allies and axis during ww2-critical bearings on ww2 Japanese engines were often SKF...About the only Swedish Electrolux I have seen in the US is the "Dometic"ammonia fridges for campers and small motors in saab and Volvo cars. |
Post# 854157 , Reply# 6   11/29/2015 at 09:12 (3,063 days old) by Keymatic (London / UK)   |   | |
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Hi Thomas, it looks a very primitive twin tub, I will scan the next page of the booklet the lady sent me..it was a weird agitator - imagine the number 8 - stretch it at both ends and this is the shape of the agitator it goes from one side of the tub to the other. I presume it just turns overs.
The machine is near Stokholm (norrkeping) Cheers Keith |
Post# 854302 , Reply# 7   11/30/2015 at 02:25 (3,062 days old) by keymatic (London / UK)   |   | |
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....haven't seen an washing method like this before !! Inside action of the Electrolux twin tub.
Keith
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