Table Top Washing Machines

[speckled wood]

An off topic and hopefully non controversial question.

Back in the early 1970s my late parents bought a Table Top washing machine that you simply filled from the hop tap, loaded a few items in and cranked by hand for about ten minutes. Results were reasonable and it was very handy for light weight loads.
I would like to obtain one but can't find whether there are any currently on the market.

I wonder if anyone knows if they are still on sale, and if so where?

SW

[mrs fish]

I have just spent awhile looking around on the internet and no joy

Someone needs to reinvent one

[badgerwatcher]

I saw one in a charity shop once, but foolishly didn't buy it. Have you tried e-bay, Speckled Wood?
What sort of washing machines do people have? I worry about the electricity and water mine uses, but when I suggested we got a twin tub, it wasn't well received. I don't have time mostly to wash by hand. (My mother used to spend all Mondays washing, but she didn't go out to work. And she had a mangle, which I'd quite like one of. It was hard work though.

[speckled wood]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

I saw one in a charity shop once, but foolishly didn't buy it. Have you tried e-bay, Speckled Wood?
What sort of washing machines do people have? I worry about the electricity and water mine uses, but when I suggested we got a twin tub, it wasn't well received. I don't have time mostly to wash by hand. (My mother used to spend all Mondays washing, but she didn't go out to work. And she had a mangle, which I'd quite like one of. It was hard work though.

Thanks

I have had a look on ebay, plenty of them there but they are all electrically powered, not a single hand cranked one anywhere. I wish I had not taken my mother's old Acme to the tip 30 years ago.

SW

[Tinkerbell]

I'm pretty sure I've seen one recently in a magazine for the more mature citizens - Saga, Heyday, Choice, for starters - all of whom probably have websites you could try. Another possibility is those multi-shopping booklets which come through the post, or are inserted into newspapers (whatever, I'm sure they are still available). In fact, I've just remembered someone I know bought one for their caravan a couple of years ago!

Tinkerbell

[Blackdog]

You could try here - Outdoor Megastore Domestic Appliances - (bottom of the page)

or here

Mailspeed Marine Worktop Washing Machine £39.99 Mailspeed Marine Chandlery - Mailspeed Marine Chandlery

I think this could be just what you are looking for

[speckled wood]

Originally Posted by Blackdog

You could try here - Outdoor Megastore Domestic Appliances - (bottom of the page)

or here

Mailspeed Marine Worktop Washing Machine £39.99 Mailspeed Marine Chandlery - Mailspeed Marine Chandlery

I think this could be just what you are looking for

Thanks!

This looks like exactly what I am looking for, think of the excercise! I may try the canal shops near Nantwich first, but one of the shops looks to be close to Warrington Town Centre anyway.


SW

[smartie]

Excellent. And when you have finished the washing you can churn butter in it.

We used to have a "gas washer" when I was a child, as our first house didn't have electricity when my parents moved into it. You used a gas ring at the bottom to heat the water up then heaved back and forth on a manual paddle to swish the washing about. Then put it though a hand operated mangle. It seemed like good fun to me, but I suspect my mum wasn't as thrilled! She certainly got an electric one as soon as she could. That had a mangle too, which was electrically operated and would almost certainly be condemned by the health and safety mob now. It was supposed to stop if you got your fingers trapped - mercifully I never had to find out if it worked.

[Blackdog]

Cor' I remember my Mum had a washer with an electric mangle on it, I think it was called an Acdo. The HSE would have a field day with that sort of kit these days

[Garden Carpet]

We are well spoilt these days.. when I first married ... in 1970 I had a single tub with a mangle.. and because there wasnt a fitting for it to go on the kitchen tap I had to do all the washing in the shower room... ahhhhh those were the days!!!!
jaki

[nightshade]

I can remember the first washing machine I ever saw it was called
The hotpoint Empress it had a conical vertical paddle that oscillated
and most fascinating a power wringer!!
Sheets that went through it came out just like planks, you just fed
a corner in with your finger and thumb (HSE!) and zonk a totally dry
almost dessicated sheet(shirt buttons stood no chance)

[Garden Carpet]

That sounds like mine Nightshade.. was darn difficult to use in the shower!!

[Gill Catton]

Eere hang on!! I had one of these when I was at uni and it wasn't that long ago!!! It was ok unless you had something really messed up then I would boil it a bit first and / or cover it in vanish first. Yes it certainly helped as a work out - I was much fitter at uni

[Garden Carpet]

it where an antique Gill...

[henrya]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

We are well spoilt these days.. when I first married ... in 1970 I had a single tub with a mangle.. and because there wasnt a fitting for it to go on the kitchen tap I had to do all the washing in the shower room... ahhhhh those were the days!!!!
jaki

I remember my mother doing the washing with one of those and my father helping by cranking the mangle. Only trouble was if you were mangling say a pillow case, you might trap a lot of water at the end, which was OK if you cranked slowly, but if you cranked fast, the water sprayed everywhere! My mother used to have to tell him to stop time after time, but water still sprayed all over the place! My father wouldn't have done it deliberately, would he? Would he?

henrya