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6th Jul 2016, 2:32 am | #1 |
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Appliance at demolished house
Can anyone identify the skeletal remains of this appliance which languishes at a demolished house near here. It looks like a spin dryer or small washing machine.
Just the outer casing remains, I couldn't find the inner workings. It would be interesting if anyone can tell what make or even model it is, or rather was. I've added a photo of the rating plate but it's difficult to make it out. Michael. |
6th Jul 2016, 6:15 am | #2 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
Hello, Mickash.
It looks like a Dean gas-fired wash-boiler, from the 1950's. |
6th Jul 2016, 7:42 am | #3 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
Or possibly an electric clothes airer?
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6th Jul 2016, 7:52 am | #4 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
On the nail I think, a Dean wash boiler, made in the Burco factory in Rosegrove, Burnley in the '60s? Normally gas powered, the similar one using electricity was sold as a Burco.
The company had many reincarnations becoming Burco Dean Maxol in various combinations untill Glen Dimplex took it over and soon closed it down. All gone now, Rosegrove is a housing estate. |
6th Jul 2016, 10:08 am | #5 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
I will put my money on a Dean gas wash boiler (copper)
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6th Jul 2016, 12:11 pm | #6 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
I was going to say some kind of water heater, gas powered because of the vents, but it's not clear from the pics how large the object is. But other posters could be right about the wash boiler.
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6th Jul 2016, 5:36 pm | #7 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
“Google image” search to this page (see image 3) looks to match your image 4.
The 4 vents and 4 ripples around the base are same also the oval cut outs for the “hose hanger?” similar Web page link http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/sh...as-burner.html regards S-W |
7th Jul 2016, 2:03 am | #8 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
Thanks for all your replies and research. These must be the remains of a Dean Wringwash.
The images in the link that Short Wave has provided are a perfect match. The description in the link helps to make sense of the rating plate shown in my last picture. I can now make out the wording "DEAN", "Wringwash" and "Made 10/58" The outer case is all that remains of the machine, the site is very overgrown with trees and assorted undergrowth, the rest might be there somewhere. I had previously spotted parts of a TV but couldn't find anything on my last visit. There are a few children's plastic blocks lying around, this must have been a family home long ago. I'm not sure when the house was demolished but it was already gone when I moved to this area in the early 1980s. This appliance is vintage if not electrical! Michael. |
9th Jul 2016, 2:39 pm | #9 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
I thought it might be an early prototype C3P0! On a slightly more serious note, when I see this type of thing I always think back to when the machine was new how eagerly its delivery was anticipated, how carefully its purchase was budgeted for and carefully it was looked after because in these days the purchase of a 'fridge or a washing machine was a major commitment. This was before this throw away age we now live in. A maiden aunt who was around when I was a youngster couldn't afford a 'fridge and had to boil what ever milk she had left at the end of the day on Saturday so that she could use it the next day as there was no milk delivered on Sunday. Towards the end of her life, she received some sort of Co-Op life policy payment and bought a small table top 'fridge which was just large enough to hold a milk bottle and and a very few items of fresh food. I remember how delighted she was to be finally able to afford a 'fridge. As I remember her that must have been as relatively recently as the early sixties.
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12th Jul 2016, 2:37 pm | #10 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
Hi,
it is likely the inside is missing as it is probably copper etc. and thus has a scrap value, whereas the outer Case, being enamelled, does not. Regards - Mike |
16th Jul 2016, 10:11 pm | #11 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
I think it might be a Flatlly clothes dryer [basically a tin box with a heater in the bottom that you would hang damp washing in to dry
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16th Jul 2016, 10:37 pm | #12 |
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Re: Appliance at demolished house
I still think its one of these ,,,,,,,,,,
we used to use them for heating water at Boy's Brigade Camps http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/...07GHK-Dean.jpg |