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Hoover Deluxe Vacuum Cleaner Commercial, 1959
Posted on May 10th, 2009 No comments
For the discriminating woman. I’ve never heard ‘deluxe’ pronounced this way before!
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Electrolux 330 Automatic Vacuum Cleaner
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 No commentsThis is my near-mint condition Electrolux 330 Automatic from 1973. It was a short lived model and ran from 1973-75 and was replaced by the 345. It featured an Automatic floortool that retracted its brushes when cleaning carpets and released them automatically when vacuuming hardfloors. It would also switch itself off if it became blocked or the bag got too full and the orange light would come on. The knob at the front of the machine controlled the sensitivity of this. My 330 also has a very rare optional Turbinette floor tool, it was an early style of suction driven power head. In the video I use it with a later style hose from a 302 model as the original weaved hose tends to lose a lot of suction now because of its age.
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Fun with Hoover Constellation and Royal Vacuum Cleaners
Posted on May 2nd, 2009 No commentsexamples of vacuum cleaners from the 60′s and 70′s. Hoover Constellation(orange round one)The Hoover guardsman and the Royal commercial vac
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Hoover Vacuum Cleaner
Posted on April 12th, 2009 No comments
The Hoover story begins in 1907. Murray Spangler, an inventor who worked nights as a janitor, had an asthma problem. He called upon his inventor’s creativity to find a solution to the dust that aggravated his asthma as he swept up at night.
Spangler gathered a tin soap box, a fan, a sateen pillow case and a broom handle, and assembled an odd-looking, cumbersome contraption that managed to pull the dust away from the air he breathed. He quickly realized that this “suction sweeper,” as he called it, had enormous sales potential, and he began seeking financial backing.
W.H. “Boss” Hoover, owner of a leather goods manufacturing shop, bought the patent from Spangler in 1908, retained him as a partner, and soon had six employees assembling six units a day in a corner of the leather goods shop. Read the rest of this entry »






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