When home washing machines were first invented, they were just a tub on legs or wheels, with a hand-cranked mangle on top. Later there were the semi-automatics or twin tubs, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s some top loaders were manufactured. The top loaded automatics followed until the front loading automatics started to sell.  In the new housing estate where we lived in Roscommon in the early 1970, these were selling like hot-cakes.

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