Vintage Prestcold 431

[don]

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 😆

Don

[electrofix]

Re: Vintage Prestcold 431

still got a GEC coldspace 43
(like one pictured below) only taken out of service last year. still runs and freezes well

not sure how old it is but it was bought when in a previous house and we left there in 1970

Dave

[mirmay]

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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[sce]

Re: Vintage Prestcold 431

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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