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Thread Number: 82378
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
My mother's twintub |
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Post# 1064131 3/22/2020 at 10:49 (1,485 days old) by foraloysius  (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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I thought it would be nice to share a scan of the picture of my mother's twintub as an addition to the British Twintub thread. Twintubs were not very popular in the NL because a lot of people stuck to their wringer washers and often bought a separate spindryer. Dutch housewives didn't like spending extra money for the extra convenience of a twintub. I guess my parents were a bit different in that aspect. My mother had saved quite a sum of money before they married, she had her own business (a business in repairing nylon stockings).
I remember seeing it as a child, but don't have any recollection of my mother using it. We had the TOL twintub or one model below that one. The TOL model had automatic heating and washing (when the selected temperature was achieved, the machine would start washing automatically. The one model below it had a thermostat, but it didn't start the washing action automatically. The spinner had a rinse function (both models) with a center rinse colom with holes from top to bottom. IIRC I read somewhere that the spinspeed was approx. 1500rpm. We had this machine until 1964 I think. It was then replaced by a Candy frontloader that we only had for 1 year because it broke down three times in that year.
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Post# 1064140 , Reply# 1 3/22/2020 at 12:32 (1,485 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1064161 , Reply# 2 3/22/2020 at 17:15 (1,485 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1064234 , Reply# 3 3/23/2020 at 00:30 (1,485 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) |
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thanks Louis. a lovely looking twinnie. Any idea of the capacity? | ||
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Post# 1064243 , Reply# 4 3/23/2020 at 03:33 (1,484 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Dutch Twintub
Morning Louis, it looks a sturdy washing machine and for the price it would be, is this a Philips style design or is DRU a stand alone company ? the agitator looks like the early Philips wringer washers
and the spin can being pear shaped which Philips also promoted. I wonder is that the husband smoking in the add feeling superior because hes bought his wife a new washing machine or the salesman promoting it ha ha.. | ||
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Post# 1064248 , Reply# 5 3/23/2020 at 06:09 (1,484 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Chris, the capacity is 3 kg, 45 liters.
Mike, DRU was/is a stand alone company. They stopped making washing machines when the automatics got popular. It's still an excisting company, concentrating on gas heaters etc. Here's their British website. www.drufire.com/en-gb... | ||
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Post# 1064249 , Reply# 6 3/23/2020 at 06:22 (1,484 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Here are two pictures of a brochure I have. The man in the brochure is indeed the husband. On the front he asks: Do you... why I said "yes" immediately when my wife chose this DRU-MATIC?
On the other side the husband comes home from work. His wife asks: happy with your little woman on laundry day? And he responds: oh yes indeed! From left to right the line up. The washing machine DE LUXE, the DRU-MATIC and the DE LUXE that didn't have the automatic start of the wash by the thermostat. The cover was an extra, I remember we had it. On the front page there is also a picture of a dryer for laundry and dishes. | ||
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Post# 1064256 , Reply# 7 3/23/2020 at 07:48 (1,484 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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I love how | ||
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Post# 1064257 , Reply# 8 3/23/2020 at 07:52 (1,484 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 1064284 , Reply# 9 3/23/2020 at 11:10 (1,484 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Smoking in those days were pretty normal, in advertisements, on TV, even in hospitals. Some doctors thought it was good to smoke. lol
I love the name DRU-Matic too Robert, so secretly I hope it is that model we had. The difference is that the DRU-Matic had a control light for the heater. Ofcourse I think I remember ours had the control light, but that is wishful thinking I suppose. The interior of the livingroom was to the standard of the "Stichting Goed Wonen" (Good Living Foundation), an organisation that promoted functional and efficient interior design with modern furniture. Modern interior design was stimulated, was even called a matter of upbringing! Behind the woman in the picture you can just see the DRU wall gas heater. It had a small double pipe through the wall for taking in air and exhaustion of the gas fumes. They were very popular, some people installed them through the entire house instead of central heating. | ||
| Post# 1064302 , Reply# 10 3/23/2020 at 13:05 (1,484 days old) by alanlondon (London) | ||
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Great read thanks very much for sharing a nice memory. | ||
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Post# 1064676 , Reply# 11 3/26/2020 at 09:47 (1,481 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago) |
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Is that the same DRU that made cookware? | ||
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Post# 1064686 , Reply# 13 3/26/2020 at 11:36 (1,481 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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