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| Post# 161133 12/4/2011 at 21:34 (4,524 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I never knew that the German Braun company had made vacs at one point in time!!! Who woulda thunk it?
To our friends in Europe: did Braun make many vacs over the years? In North America, we have only seen small Braun kitchen devices (food processors, etc) and personal care appliances (shavers and hair dryers) over the years in our stores.... Here's a YouTube clip of a Braun canister vac CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 161244 , Reply# 2 12/5/2011 at 17:03 (4,523 days old) by VacuumBoy1993 () | ||
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| Post# 161245 , Reply# 3 12/5/2011 at 17:04 (4,523 days old) by VacuumBoy1993 () | ||
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| Post# 161246 , Reply# 4 12/5/2011 at 17:05 (4,523 days old) by VacuumBoy1993 () | ||
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| Post# 161255 , Reply# 5 12/5/2011 at 18:52 (4,523 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Muchas gracias, Kevin!!!
You know that Braun vac in the second picture is identical to a 110volt canister vac that was sold here in Canada at the Eaton's department store in the 1970's! It was labelled with the Eaton Viking brand, and was supplied by the Eureka Company which was by then a division of Sweden's Electrolux. Eureka had been supplying Eaton's with Viking vacs for many, many years, and Eureka was also selling several Progress vacs under the Eureka name here in North America at the time. Germany's Progress company was also a division of Electrolux and I guess the parent company was exchanging designs across all their divisions. The cool thing was that the Viking version we knew included a Eureka power nozzle! Love the third vac in your series of posts.... Brian in Canada | ||
| Post# 161264 , Reply# 6 12/5/2011 at 21:26 (4,523 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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| Post# 161271 , Reply# 7 12/5/2011 at 22:48 (4,523 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 161296 , Reply# 9 12/6/2011 at 07:44 (4,522 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
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| Post# 161318 , Reply# 12 12/6/2011 at 15:01 (4,522 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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I once saw a 110volt version of one of those Progress stick-vacs here at a vacuum store in Toronto! It was relabelled with the Eureka name.....I think it was around 1995....
Filn danke Joe for that clarification and interesting story. Kevin - wish I had kept the Eaton's newspaper advertisement for the Progress/Eureka/Viking power nozzle vac. It must have been in the mid 1970's and I remember being shocked to see a Eureka canister look so different from the line of Princesses/Sweet Sixteens/Ironsides/Empress Twos that we were used to seeing at the Eaton's department store in those years! | ||
| Post# 161328 , Reply# 14 12/6/2011 at 16:07 (4,522 days old) by markus79 (Finland) | ||
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braun if I remember right this 90īs braun was made also with bauhnecht or kenwood-brand. This 70īs braun sold here with BBC-brand in 1972. Markus | ||
| Post# 161345 , Reply# 16 12/6/2011 at 19:15 (4,522 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Kevin - you may very well be correct: The Viking power nozzle canister vac made by Progress may have been in Eaton's stores in the late 1970's/early 1980's. I remember that the Eureka Roto-Matic power nozzle sold with it was the later version with the "belt view" window on the side and the wider headlight.
The reason why the Eaton Viking vacs and Bay Beaumark vacs were coming from Progress in Germany was because these Canadian department stores had contracts with Electrolux's Eureka division to supply some of their private label vacs. At some point Electrolux started introducing Progress vacs and Volta vacs and Electrolux vacs onto the Canadian market by labelling them Eureka or Viking or Beaumark. The Eureka stick-vac made by Progress was definitely late 1980's or early 1990's....It was not really "stick"-like! It looked like a Progress canister with a handle stuck on one end, and a carpet nozzle on the other end! :-) | ||
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