Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14

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Subject: [Leica] There's something about German design ...
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sun Jan 14 22:44:48 2007
References: <617EDB1E-2D9B-49A5-B256-675A6D20ECFA@home.netspeed.com.au> <6d8cb16ebf98e212fb891cf2ccc2deb5@woh.rr.com> <DBDB1E15-2D00-47AC-A7E8-9E66C2A2D102@home.netspeed.com.au> <8333D507-C621-4B16-BF61-F97158037035@pandora.be>

When we were first married we could not afford a washing machine.  
When we did eventually buy one, a couple of years later, it was a  
shop own brand which worked through a family of six for many years  
and we used towelling nappies (diapers) not paper. When it eventually  
died I checked inside and, sure enough, some of the castings were  
marked Zanussi. We replaced it with another Zanussi which is still  
going strong today. That is two machines for a family of six for 30+  
years in a hard water area. Not bad I'd say.
FWIW we are on our second Miele dishwasher in 9 years, and the first  
needed reasonably frequent expensive maintenance. Luckily the UK  
Miele headquarters is 6 miles away :-)
Frank

On 14 Jan, 2007, at 20:41, Philippe Orlent wrote:

> Yep. Miele is expensive. Better buy their somewhat lower positioned  
> but still German and almost equally well engineered Bosch and AEG  
> cousins.
> And never buy SMEG for other things than furnaces: they're just  
> rebadged very Italian Zanussis.
>
> Philippe


In reply to: Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] There's something about German design ...)
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Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] There's something about German design ...)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] There's something about German design ...)