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Thread Number: 89195
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Strange vintage portable washer |
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| Post# 1137768 12/29/2021 at 15:01 (847 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama) | ||
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Post# 1137769 , Reply# 1 12/29/2021 at 15:16 (847 days old) by petek  (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Monitor.  | ||
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Post# 1137770 , Reply# 2 12/29/2021 at 15:16 (847 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Monitor washer
Search archives, we've had tons of discussions on the Monitor washer previously.
Monitor lifted their design from Hoover's 0308. There were a few other European washers back in day of similar design. Basically you've got half a twin tub washer. Impeller either mounted on side or bottom of tub to create agitation. When wash in finished you fetch things through the mangle. | ||
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Post# 1137774 , Reply# 3 12/29/2021 at 15:25 (847 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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 I had a Hoover version of this style of washer but it now belongs to a fellow AWO member in NY - the first washer I remember seeing at my Grandma's house in the UK was also a Hoover like this!
Now, what I'd love to see was the Monitor dryer that went with this washer... it was supposed to blow heated air fast enough to propel clothes around the square drum.... | ||
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Post# 1137778 , Reply# 4 12/29/2021 at 15:39 (847 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 All sale pics. The impeller is seen on side of the tub in 8, 9, and 10. | ||
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Post# 1137779 , Reply# 5 12/29/2021 at 15:41 (847 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 1137791 , Reply# 6 12/29/2021 at 16:48 (847 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia) | ||
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impeller That is a very strange impeller. It seems to have ridges on one half and flatter on the other half. Or does it have a shroud that covers half the impeller? What is that all about?? | ||
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Post# 1137808 , Reply# 7 12/29/2021 at 17:56 (847 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Monitor lifted their design from Hoover's 0308
Far be it from me to contradict Laundress but it is much more likely the opposite.
There has been a story that Charles Colston (who set up and ran Hoover UK) got the design of the 307 from Eastern Europe designs post WW2 but another says that he saw the design when attending a Hoover conference around 1936 and that it was the Monitor. If one looks critically at the 307 it is fairly obvious that it is a design from the 1930s rather than 1940s. There were plans developed in the late 1930s to extend the Perivale site to accommodate the production of washing machines - WW2 prevented these plans moving forward and the washing machine factory was eventually sited in South Wales. AFAIK the Hoover 308 was never sold "officially" in USA but rather in Canada. | ||
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Post# 1137814 , Reply# 8 12/29/2021 at 18:29 (847 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Hmmm,
May have had wrong end of stick! Thanks for correction VacBear. Always heard or at least assumed the Monitor/Gibson got their idea from Hoover. Indeed at one point Monitor had laundry twins resembled Hoover's "Spin A Rinse" set. www.automatice.org/cgi-bi... www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/... | ||
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