I was thinking that too, but I guess that probably took off more in the 1960's and 1970's, than 1950's.
Those wipe-clean formica worktops would certainly have been easier to clean than getting the engine oil off an wooden worktop of earlier times;-)
Lets see if this works. I tried to reply to the email copy but it threw an error. I don't want a waste disposal unit. Cannot see the need, and a friend of mines seems always to be inbits.
Brian
We were anything but wealthy - but had a washing machine in the early '50s. A basic single tub Hoover. Most of my pals parents had too.
Hiring wasn't common in Scotland. People had more sense.
The original single tub Hoovers were well made. Their first twin tub not. We had an AEG twin tub. Which lasted about 30 years with a few minor repairs. My mother didn't want an automatic as they cost so much more to run.
I agree.
SWMBO and myself have both had to work and when we were both in London, it was a complete PITA - all it takes is one train to be delayed and you have angry childcare person ringing...
We both switched to lower paid jobs - mine being at King's College very near to Charing Cross (my terminal station) with 2 days working from home thrown in - and SWMBO switched to working more locally - both of which has made a huge difference.
But I do feel for the modern family - it's very difficult on a normal salary to pay a mortgage...
It really is time the country adapted with better provision of pre and after school clubs...
Ditto - engineering civil service salary (not exactly massive) paid for a 3 bed semi with a 100' garden in a nice small town plus car.
If you compare house price inflation from the 60's to present, it far outstrips the inflation on everything else.
Was that the program about converting at Ford into a luxurious passion wagon?
Or later trends. ;-)
The number of _women_ who know how to sew on a button is vanishingly small, too.
The first AWM for the masses was Bendix, not Hoover.
I needed a 95% mortgage in 1982. The BS was good enough to recognise that a student taking the course that I was on had a high probability of getting a good job.
House price inflation at the time meant that after three years the mortgage was less than 1/3 rd of the sale value. Happy days.
About the same number, who are interested in DIY I'd guess. Whereas we expected to move into a basic place, mostly with second-hand whitegoods and do it up over time, now it seems everything has to be done. Oh and we waited before having kids.
Andy C
I had one when I had a top floor flat and no where, or need, for a compost heap. You had to keep an eye on teaspoons on the drainer...
I wouldn't mind a dishwasher but SWMBO'd doesn't want one. Guess who does the washing up and who is normally the person keeping things tidy and put away in their place...
Hum, the pre WWII Hoover vacuum cleaner we had was still going strong well into the 90's. Far better than the modern (1960's) hoover, of course... B-)
is not available on my telly and even if it was 2Mbps iPlayer is only just acceptable quality.
Dave Plowman (News) brought next idea :
We got an Electrolux, it was a single tub, with a wringer mounted on one corner of the top and able to be swung around to face either side with forward or reverse, so which ever way it was used, you could draw the wet washing up from the tub. It seemed at the time, as if it was built to last for ever.
I remember a door to door vacuum cleaner seller calling, in the early
50's(?) and my parents agreeing to buy one, putting a deposit on it, then later changing their minds. I think a relative had managed to convince them how good the manual push along sweepers were, the ones with rotating brushes (Bex-Bistel (?)). It was one of those cylinder models on skids, then much later they bought a Hoover Constellation- a round hover Hoover.Brian Gaff presented the following explanation :
We have, in the util room, but she never uses it. Sore point, she suggests she does use it sometimes, but I have never heard her running it. Brilliant for cleaning engine parts though lol
The Hoover Junior made in the '60s was a very well made device. A mate was a buyer for Hoover and reckoned they made very little profit on it. The industrial ones were sold at a loss for some time. The real profit was on washing machines by then.
Why not?
Get a new SWMBO. And a dishwasher.
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