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[–] klu9 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

£350-400-heavy? I mean, 350-400 lbs heavy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Haha maybe not that heavy, it depends when you were seeing those ads and what inflation was like. I reckon in the 90s it would have had £-lb washing machine parity at some point.

[–] klu9 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was 1978, back in the days when many people in the UK would rent appliances!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, so less inflation but a much more expensive appliance with less built-in obsolescence! I bet they were heavy AF back then.