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Offline Trojan

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« Reply #30 on: August 14, 2013, 06:06:39 am »
Anyone remember the famous three star jumper from the 1970's?

I know Big Alan used to wear one whilst standing on the Kop  :laugh:

To the tune of There's a Tavern in the town:

"There's a wooly over there, (over there), in his dirty underwear, (underwear), with a three star jumper half-way up his back, he's a f*****g wooly-back!"

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« Reply #31 on: August 14, 2013, 06:30:03 am »
Then there was the Public Information films courtesy of the BBC. Some of them used to scare the living daylights out of me. In hindsight, it looks like Jimmy Saville was scarier than The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.

"Clunk-click, I'm really sick"

http://youtu.be/m0xmSV6aq0g


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« Reply #32 on: August 14, 2013, 06:45:58 am »
For washing machine connoisseurs like Tosh, my Mother had one of these Hotpoint models...Empress???

I always remember the clothes agitator used to turn alternately to the left and right, rather than spin around like modern machines.

And that shiny "gear lever" on the left was for.....taking the clothes agitator out of gear and putting the mangle into gear?

Tosh? 

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« Reply #33 on: August 14, 2013, 07:06:32 am »
Pictured is a now rare Cracker-Jack pencil given to the losing contestants on the children's BBC TV show Cracker-Jack (the winners were showered with lavish (for kids) prizes).

Spotted one on E-Bay going for around 25 quid.

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« Reply #34 on: August 14, 2013, 07:11:24 am »
there was a wooden top on our boiler

There was a whole bloody family on ours.

I used to watch them with my Mother. <:>

 L0L and so did I!  :laugh:
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« Reply #35 on: August 14, 2013, 08:35:36 am »
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(Maybe you could move some threads into here Ian/Dave)

Good idea,.  Nice title, BTW :-))
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.  ― Michel de Montaigne

Si hoc legere scis, nimis eruditionis habes.

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« Reply #36 on: August 14, 2013, 08:45:28 am »
Yup, it was an Empress, the smaller version was the Countess.
The black spot inside the tub on the right was where the water circulated so when you wanted to pump it out you just shoved a hose in there and pumped it into the snk, brilliant.
The chrome slider on the front left was to disengage the agitator drive and the one on the right was to operate the pump.
We used to take the gearboxes out of them to refurbish, wait for it, the rack and pinion drive system.
I think I need a lie down now.

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« Reply #37 on: August 14, 2013, 09:29:34 am »
and wasn,t the countess made in back madoc street,

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« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2013, 12:38:02 pm »
Just found this and it really brings back some good memories, I had a good workshop and 4 brilliant lads to do my bidding.


http://wendyswashers.moonfruit.com/#/hotpoint/4512849153


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« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2013, 07:10:42 pm »
The black spot inside the tub on the right was where the water circulated so when you wanted to pump it out you just shoved a hose in there and pumped it into the snk, brilliant.

Forgot all about that. I seem to remember another "gear lever" in the compartment underneath for draining the water. Must have put the pump into drive.

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« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2013, 07:11:55 pm »
and wasn,t the countess made in back madoc street,

I didn't know Hotpoint had a workshop there.  *&(

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« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2013, 07:32:54 pm »
Memory tricks here, but, I think something like the old Parnall had the pump lever inside the cabinet, not sure.
Perhaps the very earlier model had the inside lever, I'm not as old as I look or behave really.

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« Reply #42 on: August 14, 2013, 08:28:36 pm »
yes trojan it was opp ball &boyd

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« Reply #43 on: August 14, 2013, 09:48:26 pm »
When was the Madoc Street place operating?  I remember Hotpoint in Craigside - I joined Hotpoint in February 1970 and a couple of years later they started making vacuum cleaners in Craigside, the old old ice-skating theatre.  I worked in Design Change Control at the time and was responsible for keeping all the records of parts for the trial builds.  Anyone remember my boss, a guy named George Benbow?

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« Reply #44 on: August 14, 2013, 10:28:56 pm »
this was the early 60s in back madoc st , i worked for walkers fridgedaire up craigside i remember hotpoint comming there round the back,