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Picked up one of these little beauties this week when we delivered a shiny new one.
Apparently it’s 55 years old still runs but temperature a little out.
Collected a Flatley drier a while ago now this, all we need now is to pick up a Keymatic for a full set 😆
DonRe: Vintage Prestcold 431
still got a GEC coldspace 43
(like one pictured below) only taken out of service last year. still runs and freezes wellnot sure how old it is but it was bought when in a previous house and we left there in 1970
Dave
Re: Vintage Prestcold 431
Came across these beauties today. All original and still fully functional. Love the “roastmeter”(in Farenheit), and the 3-pin socket on the cooker fascia.<img src="
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Nice fridge, your lucky having that. Any ideas if it is a piston compressor or a rotatary vain type as a matter of interest? Ages since I`ve seen one of these-I picked up one similar in 1982 but it was too far gone as it was kept in a barn and so was badly rusted. A friend of mine from a distant past used to, knowing him still has, a beehive fridge. I`d like to get my paws on one of those Electrolux absorption fridges, I like the idea of no moving parts just a stat and a heater. Anyway, great to see this stuff, I suspect most old stuff was chucked even if still working when kitchens were replaced.
Last late 60`s cooker I repaired was similar to the cooker above, made by Carron, which is still being coaxed along, next time I go there for something I`ll see if I can get a photo to upload.
The oldest washer I came across was in 2008 and that was a 1962 bolt to the floor Bendix which he replaced with a Tricity Bendix which went South, terminally, after 4 years-curse of modern Electrolux!!! Anyone remember the Philco Ford washer or the Bendix`s with the brown fascia panels, stainless steel tank that used to leak from the left hand suspension bracket weld, Merloni made as far as I remember, the series before that with the enamelled tank too, with the silver and black pin striped fascia panel ?
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