Oooh that is lovely! I'd love to get it, but...

It's a bit too far from me, otherwise I'd be on it in a flash.

I'm probably the closest member of this website group, but it's till a very long distance to travel.

It's the same model as the one we used at our wedding in 2022 - it was our document signing table and later the wedding cake cutting table.

Mine looks good but has no motor and the drum bearings are arthritic. I do have one good spare door boot though.

Photos of the star of our wedding below...

Thanks Chetlaham.

We had been a couple already for 35 years when we finally married. First we needed a change in the law, then covid got in the way and caused a couple more years delay. We got there in the end...

Quite a few guests asked "so, what's with the washing machine?" but we wanted a wedding that was informal/casual, a bit quirky, and allowed us to express our unique personalities. The Keymatic fitted that perfectly.

I resprayed the Keymatic for the wedding, I had some trouble with the paint, some of it went into a weird "alligator skin" crazed texture. I had to sand it back and re-re-spray it the day (or two?) before the wedding, and final re-assembly was late at night before the big day when the paint was still slightly soft... Talk about stressful...

It's one of the later models.

The early ones had a horizontal "time line" indicator to show progress through the cycle. Later ones like the one above had a circular "clock face" to show progress. The later ones also had some cheapening - plastic idler pulleys for the spin belt (it turns 90 degrees!) for example, early ones were cast iron pulleys.

Mine is a "Mark IV" and I have no idea what that means - I'd love to know what all the differences were between versions. I think the Mark IV was the last version, though I have a very vague memory of seeing a slightly later one in the Hoover showroom when I was a kid, and it had a model number something like "Hoover 440" on it, no mention of the word Keymatic. But that is a very old memory and I might be mistaken. We had a Hoover-only store in town when I grew up - Westwood Specialties Hoover it was called. I used to love going there with Mum to get bags and belts for our Hoover vacuum cleaner, always something fascinating on display.