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Post# 193194   8/4/2012 at 10:57 (4,254 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia ))        

Hi all...

Here's the WA Celebrity I won on ebay a few weeks back, it's in great condition looks like it has seen little use

So how many retailers did Hoover make machines for, I know of Sears, Pennys, Wards are there any others ?

Mark


Post# 193195 , Reply# 1   8/4/2012 at 10:59 (4,254 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia ))        

Inside shot very clean

Post# 193196 , Reply# 2   8/4/2012 at 11:00 (4,254 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia ))        

and the floor tool

Post# 193209 , Reply# 3   8/4/2012 at 12:04 (4,254 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
my former Wesern Auto

Glad you like machine and condition.Do you have other WA?Just remembered a Hoover Swingette type with hose in doctors office to vacuum dust when cast for broken bones is cut off.Don't know if it was Hoover or private label.Anyone?

Post# 193456 , Reply# 4   8/6/2012 at 00:21 (4,253 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
a great vacuum...great suction!

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Kind of like a smushed down Connie. Great hose, too.... not like the pool filter stuff out now. Sadly, too many 'other names' on these great machines.
John


Post# 193459 , Reply# 5   8/6/2012 at 00:31 (4,253 days old) by 1926700 ()        
well to awnser your qestion on wards and penneys...

Wards sold Eureka products pretty much only until the late and mid 80's. JCPenneys did Hoover products and Eureka canisters until the late 80's. Sears, was exclusively Whirlpool made machines to Kenmores specs, until Whirlpool sold their Vacuum division to Panasonic in the early 90's, but tin 1989 1990 and 1991 they did start selling name brands. Hoover had their special High Performance line for Sears. which had two Convertible type machines and a Concept. until the late 80's most company just private labeled name brand machines so that they appeared to be "made" by that catalog company.

Post# 193464 , Reply# 6   8/6/2012 at 00:53 (4,253 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)        

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Here's the low down:

JCPenney first began selling "real" Hoovers and Eurekas - rather than those equivalents with the JCP label - in 1985. I know my JCP Spring/Summer 1984 catalog still had the JCP-branded versions.

If anyone has a JCP Spring/Summer 1985 catalog to confirm the transition, please let me know.

Wards? I'd say around 1988, because I remember their last branded take on Eureka's Roto-Matic 1700 series was a purplish-blue color.

~Ben


Post# 193466 , Reply# 7   8/6/2012 at 01:21 (4,253 days old) by 1926700 ()        
and ben.....

let me add in and around 1985 there was kinda i in between for Wards. wards did this "Montgomery Wards By: Hoover or Eureka" but were still pretty much private labeled. thank you Ben for the exact years..=)...i appreciate it. your one of the few that are still helpful on here....

Post# 193704 , Reply# 8   8/7/2012 at 09:13 (4,252 days old) by Danny ()        

Hi I am Danny from ontario canada Hamilton that is a store callde the Bay had.
Eureca under the moniker of Bewmark Danny.


Post# 194019 , Reply# 9   8/9/2012 at 10:31 (4,249 days old) by Danny ()        

Danny here from hamilton ontario canada Etons had the Eureca under the viking.
Name in the 70s.



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