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Thread Number: 76856
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1976 Colston Jetstream 303 - in pristine condition |
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Post# 1007192 , Reply# 1 9/14/2018 at 14:28 (2,050 days old) by RP2813  (Sannazay) |
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Post# 1007205 , Reply# 2 9/14/2018 at 17:08 (2,050 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Colston Dishwasher
Bit of a story behind this machine .......
The Colston company was founded by Sir Charles Colston, who founded and built up the Hoover company in Britain to the mammoth company it was by the mid 1950s - in trading terms it was actually larger than the US parent company. He was rather unceremoniously booted out in 1956 when the Hoover family decided it wanted more control of the family business - well we can all see where that led. This has led me to speculate (and it is speculation) that the Hoover company in Britain had, at least to some extent, developed a dishwasher for the UK market. A later Colston brochure which I have seen listed the hallmarks of this machine - low cost (comparatively), compact, easy to install - which could just as equally be applied to the first Hoover washing machine - the 0307. The dishwasher was launched around 1959 and seems to have been reasonably successful, they feature regularly in home decor magazines all though the early to mid-1960s - at one point there was a link up with the Rolls company which manufactured twin tubs although they managed to avoid going down when Rolls went bust. About 1967 or 1968 some new models were introduced, essentially the same machine but with squared off cabinets - one for siting on the counter (like this one) and a floor mounted version. Originally it just has a single button to start the programme but later on they added a more conventional programme control although it was still essentially a single programme machine, you could just break into it at different points and they added a rinse-hold cycle too. This particular machine is from around the end of the production run of almost 20 years. Actually they were quite good DISH washers, my parents had one, bought almost exactly at the same time. It was fine with cutlery too. It held about 8 place settings. Where it falls down is that you cannot really wash pans in it. If you were lucky you could get a casserole dish in the top rack on the right or perhaps a couple of small pans but that was it. You can see an earlier version of this dishwasher here at 4.47 And you can see this exact model in my parent kitchen in the summer of 1976 below Al
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Post# 1007207 , Reply# 3 9/14/2018 at 17:17 (2,050 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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