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Post# 219240   2/15/2013 at 12:07 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

Hi guys, just picked up this unusual BVC, never seen another like it before. It's had a hard life and is a bit tatty, the motor was seized and the switch knackered, however i've rectified this and it runs quite well now. Does anyone remember seeing any of these back in the day?

Unusually, it still has its original tools. I have a brochure scan of another BVC vacuum from 1983 with identical tools.

It needs a good clean!


Post# 219241 , Reply# 1   2/15/2013 at 12:08 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

pre-cleaning

Post# 219242 , Reply# 2   2/15/2013 at 12:09 (4,058 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK)        

Was this the one on eBay recently with tape around the motor? If so then I was gonna bid on that!!

Post# 219243 , Reply# 3   2/15/2013 at 12:11 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

as it came

Post# 219244 , Reply# 4   2/15/2013 at 12:11 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

yep it was lol the filter wasn't in properly which is why it was taped up

Post# 219246 , Reply# 5   2/15/2013 at 12:13 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

a 1983 brochure, note the tools. I'm guessing mines from around the same time

Post# 219247 , Reply# 6   2/15/2013 at 12:19 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

one very old motor, seen a few of these in Goblin cylinders

Post# 219248 , Reply# 7   2/15/2013 at 12:20 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

quite possibly the most worn out floor tool i've seen! replaced the baseplate with a nice new one

Post# 219249 , Reply# 8   2/15/2013 at 12:27 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

Glad I powered it up with a circuit breaker, this is the modification one of the previous owners had made to bypass the faulty switch. Dodgy as hell!

Post# 219258 , Reply# 9   2/15/2013 at 13:16 (4,058 days old) by s31463221 (Frenchburg, KY)        
Oh wow!

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That's one dangerous looking "rigging" job to bypass that switch. Please tell me they at least attempted to insulate those bare wire connections rather than just sticking that back inside that case the way it was????

Post# 219260 , Reply# 10   2/15/2013 at 13:56 (4,058 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

nope, that was how I found it amazingly enough lol people do amaze me

Post# 219324 , Reply# 11   2/16/2013 at 04:51 (4,057 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK)        

Yeah in the listing the guy said the floor tool was worn out

Post# 219332 , Reply# 12   2/16/2013 at 09:42 (4,057 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
BVC

Never saw this.I happened to watch the original S King 'Shining' movie(about 1980)last week and one of the early scenes when closing the hotel for winter shows a large flat top comm vac.Could this be an overgrown US cousin?--Thanks for showing this and others.

Post# 219628 , Reply# 13   2/18/2013 at 11:04 (4,055 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

it's quite possible, BVC made a huge range of commercial and industrial cleaners around that time. The most famous film appearance for BVC would probably be the hotel scene in the Return of the Pink Panther movie. I've included a link below :)

The most common style of BVC seems to be the large industrial ones with the hose on top, theres lots of them left



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Post# 219629 , Reply# 14   2/18/2013 at 11:06 (4,055 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth)        

they still make the small cylinder, it's got to be one of the longest running commercial cleaners ever. It dates back to the 50s I believe



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