Petrol-engined washing machine

Dunno but I wondered why youtube offered me that while I was browsing electric vehicles

AJH

AFAIK washing machines didn't become a thing here until the 1950s with single tubs then twin tubs. People got electricity before they got washing machines, so I'd expect petrol machines to be close to nonexistent here.

NT

We were still on a Lister Startomatic 1.5 kW generator when Mother got her first washing machine a twin tub. She could not use the heating element for a couple of years until the mains arrived, meanwhile it was filled with hot water heated by the kitchen range.

GH

Washing machines had hand operated paddles before electric ones. We had one made almost entirely out of wood.

Before that, washing was "boiled up" agitated with a "posser".

Before that. it was beaten on stones. Still is in some places.

"Soap flakes" was the detergent.

finished article, rewind if you want to see the actual restoration.