Older Ceiling Fans in Thailand

[Jean Lemieux]

A few months ago a You Tube user posted three videos of some cool ceiling fans in action. They are mostly older models from the 1970-1990s like we like them. They are located in Thailand. (220V -50HZ)

I was particularly happy to see this video because I posted a few Flickr links of photos of theses fans, they are very interesting looking, definitely vintage but I did not know their brand. Apparently their brand is Kawa. They seem pretty old. Late 1970s? Not sure they are made in Thailand because of their Mossy Taiwanese motor.

They were made in 36'', 48'' and 56'' and offered in olive green, brown and even turquoise. The turquoise ones seems rare. You can see one with it's canopies intact in the background of the room where the video was filmed. The one shown (olive green 56'')shows it's old ago. Wobbles, noisy and no more canopies.


Again a few of the Flickr to some of theses:
www.flickr.com/photos/m1k3k1m/4145046925/
www.flickr.com/photos/sebastianlewis/177787993/

A different model from 1987. Thai made! I love their blades. Very quiet.


A more recent model from around the late 1990s early 2000s but that has a vintage look. Thai made. Awesome blades too!


We can see that theses Sunwindies were discontinued not too terribly long ago as there still a few commercial images of theses floating around the net. They offered that model in all the three sizes and also offered a vented none curved bladed model.
www.sripiboon.com/product-en-0-1270978-Electric+Fan+SUNWINDY+SW+103+++48+%22.html#

I left a comment on the user's channel inviting him on the forum but apparently he/she deleted it. I guess he/she is not intreasted. I also left a comment for the Kawa fan.

[Rick M.]

Very cool fans! My favorite is that first one...super retro! Almost looks like it would fit into a 1950s home even though the fan is from the 70s...

[Cole S.]

Yeah I saw some of these! Some really cool fans, I really like all of them. Nice big motors...

[Tais]

love those fans!! especially the first one!!

i remember seeing some fans similar to the second one somewhere when i was a kid... but no idea where

[Jean Lemieux]

A few updates:

Now I finally know what fan goes with this control:
www.flickr.com/photos/hopemeng/3420455519/
Here it is:


Very cute fan!

More of the same poster:





Awesome collection!

He's got some antique Marelli in pieces, some 1960s Hitachi, an antique KDK and many Kawa and Lucky of all colors. We can see some of his fans like the Marelli and Hitachi, the paint has been scrapped. Maybe he will repaint them. I wonder what is the big brown fan at 1:01.

I love the Kawa nb 004 and the 48'' Marelli. I would love to see it mounted. We can see he's got blades lying everywhere around, he probably got the blades for it. He has a lot more motors too.

[Austin]

Now those are some cool fans. I really like those fans that have the Caribbean Breeze looking motor and that Mitsubishi. Also the old KDK is awesome and its the first one I have seen that was that old.

[Tais]

seen his recent videos, he has some solid collection!

[Jean Lemieux]

I forgot to update this thread.

This fan collector which also repairs and restore old fans have been pretty active lately.

This very cool and odd Mitsubishi from the 1960s. I love the blades on it!


A 1960s Hitachi. Theses are pretty popular in various countries. He also have a larger version of this.


Here is the one and only video of a genuine Marelli (made in Italy) ceiling fan on You Tube. A model from about the mid to late 1920s. You can really see that this ceiling fan really led Hong Kong to make around the late 1970s, early 1980s some of their fans that we know. It works very well for a fan this old. You can see that physically it was not restored.


Something a little bit more recent from about the late 1970s, early 1980s: A UEC in 90cm / 36''. Very similar to a TAT. Tais have the big nutless version of this.


A very cool 1970s-1980s greenish Kawa in my favorite size: 120cm /48''


A pair of recent brown Husan (Thai made) with four metal blades. Theses are still made today.


NOW.....This has got to be my favorite of all the ones he posted. Something very rare to see: the 120cm / 48'' version of theses old late 1970s-mid 1980s beefy Hong Kong made spinners. They look awesome in this size. Check out the curve of the blades! The upper canopy is different for this AEC version.


I did not posted them all. You can go check his channel for more.

I also found a forum where he post his pictures. It has four pages so far.
www.thaiscooter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=648063

[Tais]

I've been following up with his updates... love his collection!!

[Deleted]

Those are pretty awesome!

[J.J. A.]

lets talk this guy into joining the forums!

[Jean Lemieux]

Jul 26, 2012 0:34:12 GMT -5 J.J. A. said:

lets talk this guy into joining the forums!

I would love that!

[Jonathan A.]

I did watch all of his ceiling fan videos, and subscribed to his channel.