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G6Tanuki · 6th Dec 2018, 5:59 pm

My mother had a twintub in the 1960s (replacing an earlier "ADA" washer-wringer model that dated from the very-early-1950s and seemed to be made of bits of old aircraft-aluminium) - the twintub always struck me as being a horribly labour-intensive thing, needing masses of manual effort [moving pipes around, draining/refilling the washer tub and adding detergent for each load, moving clothes from the washer to the spinner, fill-spin-fill-spin-fill-spin for each load in the spinner].

You had to be there with it all the time it was in action. The neighbours had a nice Bendix automatic. Stick a load on before you went out - and it was finished when you got home.

My mother upgraded from the twintub to a combined automatic washer/tumble-drier in the mid-1970s, and never looked back! The Bendix-automatic-owning neighbours got a washer/drier a few months later.

6th Dec 2018, 5:59 pm	#30
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,007	Re: Anyone still use a Twintub? My mother had a twintub in the 1960s (replacing an earlier "ADA" washer-wringer model that dated from the very-early-1950s and seemed to be made of bits of old aircraft-aluminium) - the twintub always struck me as being a horribly labour-intensive thing, needing masses of manual effort [moving pipes around, draining/refilling the washer tub and adding detergent for each load, moving clothes from the washer to the spinner, fill-spin-fill-spin-fill-spin for each load in the spinner]. You had to be there with it all the time it was in action. The neighbours had a nice Bendix automatic. Stick a load on before you went out - and it was finished when you got home. My mother upgraded from the twintub to a combined automatic washer/tumble-drier in the mid-1970s, and never looked back! The Bendix-automatic-owning neighbours got a washer/drier a few months later.