Wonderful!! My Nana had a WOODEN washing machine!! I used to help her sometimes. Built like a barrel, it had a round lid with 4 dowels on a disk. There was a ratchet handle on the lid which you worked back and forth to make the dowels agitate!
Unfortunately my uncle destroyed it after she died! I would love to have kept it or put it in a museum. *sigh*
But she thought it a great luxury! Still boiled the "whites" on the stove, even the big sheets.
Thanks for the memory!