The mangle was mechanical laundry aid consisting of two rollers in a sturdy frame, connected by cogs and powered by a hand crank or electrically. It was usually used to wring water from wet laundry.Throughout the first two decades of the Beezer (the 50’s and 60’s) this was a common place household item and as such the source of numerous comic strip gags.
Here we see Boss of the Badd Lads (Beezer March 1969) instructing a pupil on how to forge notes with the help of ink and an old mangle.
Gradually, the electric washing machine rendered this use of a mangle obsolete,
and with it the need to wring clothes mechanically, which no doubt was a relief to Baby Crockett's Mum as she no longer had to worry about him getting caught up in it (from the Beezer Book 1970).
and with it the need to wring clothes mechanically, which no doubt was a relief to Baby Crockett's Mum as she no longer had to worry about him getting caught up in it (from the Beezer Book 1970).
3 comments:
We had a mangle when I was a kid in the Sixties. We didn't have a lot of money and didn't have a washing machine until 1968! I can't remember what happened to the mangle now, - probably given to a scrap man, - but it was a really heavy piece of equipment.
Just to say you missed number 3 of the interesting objects..
I watched Misses Mangle from Neighbours...:)
other than that never really saw a mangle in the 80's..
my grandmother had a mangle in the 60s: a real Victorian, wrought-iron, hand-cranked job, with rubber wheels.
It got the clothes almost bone-dry if you put the clothes through enough times, though......
RAB SMITH.
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