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Let's see now. Lever. Steam wand on the right. That would be a .....(sorry, not telling). Rather deep isn't it? I assume the actual machine has better looking handles.
CMA/Astoria, so lots of things. Kees van der Westen for one.
You forgot..... Bosco.
Now, who used to sell Bosco??
I will let others guess the name.
I agree with flynnaus as to the handles.. they did say that custom options would be available.
I like the spiral on the lever handle.
London calling is correct... but it's the Roman name for London. This machine has been generating quite a lot of heat on home-barista, especially between the resident Bezerra loving guru on that forum and the not so Bezzera enamoured maker of the pictured prototype New domestic lever espressso machine with commercial group - Lever Espresso Machines - Page 7 • Home-Barista.com
As for the proportions it seems very deep (over 50 cms) and is very heavy by all accounts, so while it is a more domestic size than the Bosco, it ain't no Cremina either. Indeed, I wonder, given what the designer of the machine has written in his blog, if he is going to continue to distribute the Cremina in the UK.
There is a lot of information and civilised discussion about this machine on another forum, you know the one, where all the Aussie Lever nuts wax lyrically.
Oh if we are looking for a more suitable name than the official one - Londinium 1, I suggest "THE LEVIATHAN". Or since the designer wants to differentiate his machine from the STREGA, then "THE WARLOCK".
I thought from the subject line that this thread was a naming competition for the machine.
My submission...
THE FUGLY LEVER
...unless the machine is going to be flush mounted into a wall cavity in which case I would go for
SLIGHTLY LESS FUGLY
I was trying to be diplomatic. At the moment, it's a face only a mother could love.
You'd want to hope it is just a box in which to hold the bits as a proof of concept rather than something which vaguely resembles a design which might go to market.
When you have to look at something every day, you need to like what you see....
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