This vintage photo reminds me of something I spotted on the label of my heated mattress pad...
I removed the electric heating mattress pad on our bed and read the label before washing it and packing it away for the season. On the label there were various methods of washing, by hand, by machine, and one line warning "us" not to put it through the wringer (or "the mangle" as the photo's titled).
Who buys and pays to use an electric mattress pad and also has a wringer washing machine? No judgement; just jaw-dropping amazement!
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My mom!
My mom had a mangle in the 50's. It was an ironing machine, electric, very hot, you sat at it like you might a sewing machine and passed garments through the cloth covered roller (about 3 or 4 ft long and maybe 8 or 9 inches in diameter) which rolled against a HOT! metal curved piece. It was for big, flat ironing. That's probably what your tag refers to.
When I was little in the 1980s, we used one of the early electric wringing machines in the summertime. Pretty sure we didn't have a modern washing machine until that first winter. I think the machine came with the Victorian house (but it still worked just fine).
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