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Post# 16898   7/22/2007 at 08:33 (6,119 days old) by luxg ()        

This is one GE upright that I have never seen before. I am wondering if anyone might know the year it came out? Also wondering if anyone out there has one of these in their collections? Looks very much like some of the early Singer uprights.

Post# 16902 , Reply# 1   7/22/2007 at 11:09 (6,119 days old) by waterstreet ()        
POD GE Upright

This is a fascinating machine - and a good clear picture of it also.
A clue to the date is the NRA insignia. The NRA was in power from 1933 to 1935.
As this was a depression vacuum, I would suspect that few of them were sold.
I have never seen it in a collection.
David



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Post# 16906 , Reply# 2   7/22/2007 at 12:13 (6,119 days old) by sfovacman ()        
GE Model 111 in collection

I believe Collector and Vacuum Shop Owner Jimmy Martin in Elizabethton, TN, has one in his collection and that he got it in a vacuum shop in a city where VCCC held convention a few years ago.

Jim Kirby


Post# 16907 , Reply# 3   7/22/2007 at 12:30 (6,119 days old) by dualsanitronic (Omaha)        
vac and forth

So,was it any good? And why did GE revert back to the horizontal fan design after this?

Post# 16947 , Reply# 4   7/23/2007 at 15:34 (6,118 days old) by sfovacman ()        
I'll be glad to find out

Will ask if GE 111 was any good and if they reverted to horizontal fan.

Jim K.


Post# 16982 , Reply# 5   7/23/2007 at 21:30 (6,118 days old) by scott55405 ()        

That was a very nice cleaner. It reminds me of the Singer R1 I think the model is.

What does NRA mean in this case? I was trying to figure out what the National Rifle Association had to do with vacuums or GE, but it sounds like this may have been something else.


Post# 16993 , Reply# 6   7/23/2007 at 23:24 (6,118 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)        
NRA

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These initials stood for National Recovery Act, or National Recovery Administration, a government program that attempted to help restore the economy during the depression. I really don't know much about it, but only those businesses that followed NRA guidelines were allowed to display the label.
Jeff


Post# 16994 , Reply# 7   7/23/2007 at 23:32 (6,118 days old) by danemodsandy ()        
National Recovery Administration

"What does NRA mean in this case? I was trying to figure out what the National Rifle Association had to do with vacuums or GE, but it sounds like this may have been something else."

Yes, it was. The National Recovery Administration was a Federal agency created in 1933 to address some of the problems of the Great Depression. It set a minimum wage, and created a maximum number of hours in the work week, so that employers had to hire more people instead of working fewer people more hours.

In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional, but it had been fairly effective in helping Americans find work, and was actually popular with many businesses, who were able to gain advertising value from their compliance with NRA codes. There's more about the NRA here:


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Post# 17001 , Reply# 8   7/24/2007 at 04:38 (6,117 days old) by ian88 ()        

Aw, and here was me thinking it was the National Rifle Association..


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