Thread Number: 18811
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Post# 207026 , Reply# 3   11/18/2012 at 15:09 (4,177 days old) by markus79 (Finland)   |   | |
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This floornozzle is made by wesselwerk in West Germany |
Post# 207028 , Reply# 4   11/18/2012 at 15:13 (4,177 days old) by markus79 (Finland)   |   | |
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Blowing function |
Post# 207072 , Reply# 5   11/18/2012 at 21:28 (4,176 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 207076 , Reply# 6   11/18/2012 at 22:26 (4,176 days old) by markus79 (Finland)   |   | |
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and here is the vid. CLICK HERE TO GO TO markus79's LINK |
Post# 208082 , Reply# 8   11/28/2012 at 16:56 (4,167 days old) by edgar (Belgium)   |   | |
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Post# 208101 , Reply# 9   11/28/2012 at 21:20 (4,166 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Hi Markus!
The large Japanese electronics company Matsushita (pronounced Mot-sooshta) created the brand names Panasonic and National-Panasonic. The National Panasonic name was never used in North America (only "Panasonic"). More recently, the corporate name Matsushita has been replaced by the name Panasonic even at "head office" in Japan. Also recently, Panasonic bought former competitor Sanyo Electric Company. Hitachi is a completely separate Japanese corporation. But I imagine many of the Japanese vac-makers shared the same local suppliers. You can see that the Japanese vacuum hoses are all very similar. So maybe the motors come from the same suppliers or suppliers which use similar systems and materials due to Japanese government regulations. When I was in Japan in 1988, I noticed a lot of similarities among all the vacs in the stores - no matter if they were labelled National or Sanyo or Hitachi or Toshiba. :-) |
Post# 208156 , Reply# 10   11/29/2012 at 09:59 (4,166 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)   |   | |
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Hey Brian:
Just an FYI. The Japanese business ideals are different from the North American. Where the companies here work against each other and try to keep stuff very secretive in Japan it is very common for companies to pool their resources to do research then share in the patents. Hence items like the hose connections on the vacuums being very similar between companies. It makes for a much more economical use of resources and keeps costs down. |
Post# 208182 , Reply# 11   11/29/2012 at 18:47 (4,165 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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