Production of this model is thought to have started in 1954 (we have instructions and adverts dated 1955) and ended in 1959 or 1960.

Made in the UK in Leatherhead. This model was also made in a 110v version for the US market. Marked with patent number 571,849.

The box shown does not belong to this particular teasmade, but another D25.

The advert below is from the 1958 edition of the Lawrence Brothers Ltd Fancy Goods catalogue.

The main body of the unit is made from cream urea plastic, with a matching cream tray. There is an orange/red Goblin figure on the front. The clock has a round face with pale green luminous hands. This teasmade has side lamps with translucent ribbed acrylic lamp covers and a square ceramic teapot similar to that on the D21. The square chrome kettle is on the right and has shaped screw-on feet and a single external earth on a flat 2 pin socket/plug. Earlier models have a welded transfer tube.

The following operational details were adapted from text by Steve Thackery at his Horology - a great hobby website, Copyright dated 28th November 1999.

"Water heats up at pre-set time and decants into teapot when boiling, tipping kettle/teapot plinth and activating alarm. The clock movement uses a perfectly standard synchronous mains motor, albeit of the later self-starting type. The alarm contacts are larger than usual, and operate ten to fifteen minutes before the time shown on the indicator hand. When this clock was made, electric elements with built-in thermostats weren't available, so to detect whether the element is safely covered with water a quite different method is used. The kettle stands on a sprung platform. When the kettle has water in it, its weight presses the platform down and operates a pair of electrical contacts which allow current to be passed to the element.

Before you retire at night, you fill the kettle and put a couple of tea bags in the tea pot. In the morning, the alarm contacts close and the kettle element heats the water. After ten minutes or so it comes to the boil, and the steam pressure forces the boiling water along the chrome tube you can see at the top, into the tea pot. After a few seconds the kettle empties, the platform it stands on rises and cuts off the current to the element. These contacts also switch on the audible alarm and the lights (behind the corrugated corner pieces) to awaken you. In reality, of course, your slumbers were disturbed several minutes previously by all the boiling and hissing sounds! Of course, you may have been awake all night anyway. The ratchet device on the end of the motor (part of the self-starting system) makes a continuous swish, swish, swish sound which some people just can't sleep through..... "

The Queen Anne was a luxury model with a rounded stainless steel teapot, the Swan Brand Westbury. There are four metal studs on the platform to hold the pot in position. This set features two bone china cups and saucers, a jug, a sugar basin and two stainless steel teaspoons.