They don't make 'em like this anymore!!!

This is my iron, it was bought for me as a wedding present in 1965 and I have been using it ever since, the steam function stopped working years ago but the iron just keeps on ironing!!!!:yess: Anybody else have something like this?

Val

 

I am afraid that if I left SWMBO with something like that I would be wearing IT rather than the shirts it had ironed :-)

Be afraid, be very afraid

Jack McHammocklashing

 

Blimey Val,

Probably needs some acid to de calc it so the steamer bit works again. Thats fantastic. You got married in 65 ? Blimey, was still in Nursery School then

 

My mother would have one like it (no steam though). She would iron just ANY LITTLE THING which could fit under an iron!!! And also the bedlinen, (with a home ironing machine) which would take hours of ironing!!!

 

Your right they don't make things like they used to. Neat Iron.

 

I have my grandmother's old charcoal iron

it is made of steel (could be cast iron or similar) and the top hinges so that you can add burning coals inside the iron

there is no name on the iron, and I would guess that it is approx 100 years+ old

it is very similar to this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1LXddugxz...AAGQE/jX8-n7v3hPE/s1600/vintage-coal-iron.jpg

 

A mere 'beginner' in comparison to your iron. My oldest appliance is my Electrolux fridge/freezer (a 1978 wedding present), it's moved house 4 times and hasn't had so much as a new fuse in the plug. The 'fast freeze' light did stop working once and I managed to get a replacement, but by the time it arrived, the original had put itself right and thus the new bulb remains, to this day, unused in it's box.

I keep looking at fridge/freezers - I really should think about a new one - but 'modern' ones of the same external dimensions, are now so tiny on the inside and come with great, thick, plastic drawers that hold hardly anything, so I'm sticking with my beloved Electrolux and the old maxim 'if it 'aint broke .....

 

My Mum had to give up on her fifties Frigidaire fridge a few years back. I believe it was secondhand when she bought it. It was still working perfectly, but it was impossible to get replacement seals. She cried when they took it away. Mum also has a study ironing board which she inherited from my Gran. It is brilliant. It has a lovely resting place for the iron, carefully crafted in heat-defying asbestos. The modern ones just aren't the same.

 

My wife was made in 1952 and still looks and works perfectly :D