What is your oldest appliance still in use?

maninthestreet

Washing machine (Servis), Fridge (LEC) and microwave (can't remember the make), all from 1990.
Hi-Fi (Denon) from 1991.
Clock Radio (Boots) in my spare bedroom from the late 80s.

Suzy_M

Fifty year old Tricity Marquis electric cooker - one ring (the most used) replaced a couple of times, the automatic oven timer gave up quite quickly (these new-fangled gadgets never last do they!) and the oven light went out years ago. Oddly enough it's still possible to get the 'important' parts for it.
1960s Kenwood mixer
35 year old Ferguson TV still in use (with digibox)

Waterlily24

Davesnave wrote: »

It must have been one of the very first Dolby-equipped machines, as that only became available to the mass-market in 1968 .

I know when he bought it it was expensive but didn't realise it would have been one of the first Dolby machines. He was very into sound at the time lol.
Thanks for the info.

Newly_retired

Moulinex mixer from about 1971
Roberts radio from 1950ies
Various bits of 80ies hi-fi.
Microwave from approx 1990.

Yet items bought more recently eg iron, kettle, washing machine, have had to be replaced after a short life.

mollsnan

Still using Belling Format cooker now 25 yrs old. Just wish I could get new hinges for top oven door!
Food processor now 28 yrs old.
Singer sewing machine (electric) now 45 yrs old.
Not bad!!

katejo

lazer wrote: »

Small 14" Mitsubishi TV - it belonged to an elderly relative and I got it about 7 years ago, I'm guessing she had it about 10 years before.
Microwave - about 12/13 years old/
Radio - about 20 - 30 years old (and have a few of these!)
Sewing Machine a bit like this - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1960s-Working-Brother-Sewing-Machine-with-Instruction-Leaflet-/141474203761?pt=UK_CraftsCollect_SewingMachines_RL&hash=item20f0850871

Until the digital switchover, I had a black a white TV with a tuning knob instead of channel buttons, google suggests around 1972 TV, and I stopped using it in 2012 - so 37 years!

I had a black and white TV like that which I bought in 1983! Until a few months ago I had a slow cooker which I bought in 1985. Gave it away on Freecycle so it is still in use by someone as far as I know..

Alias_Omega

Hotpoint Dishwasher...Made by Bosch..


Still ticking..

techspec

The one that shocks me most is my Hotpoint Aquarius washer dryer.

I never get extra gaurantee cover - but the assistant confirmed what i had heard - that washer dryers rarely last long - so i added 5 years cover.

Its now 19 years old and is used most days.

I will actually be happy when i have to buy a new one - surely technology as moved on since then and i will get an ever better wash aswell as a bigger load capacity. But like my car, it seems to go on and on and on.

Hedgehog99

My previous TV died the day Princess Diana died - I put the radio on instead & wondered why they were paying sombre music (having not seen the news). ...so my TV is from 1997.

Toaster and iron are a year or so older - but I don't use either very often (as you can tell from my original, very new-looking ironing board cover!). My toaster is a long-slot which seem difficult to get hold of nowadays.

Perhaps the oldest electrical thing is a nice sewing machine from my Grandma which she gave me in the early 1990's having owned it for a few years before that. I've tried to use it (and I saw her using it, so I know it's a nice one to use), but I am a disaster at sewing.

I have older non-electrical functional things - furniture from my grandparents' house, garden tools from my other grandfather, a typewriter from my great uncle and a jacket I bought in about 1991 & still wear every winter.

puppey

old school electrolux blender, in a lovely brown colour with these clunky buttons (all options seem to make it spin at the same speed!)