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| Post# 240229 7/16/2013 at 11:15 (3,926 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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I was given it. No idea how old it is but it looks 80's! 
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| Post# 240231 , Reply# 1 7/16/2013 at 11:31 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240232 , Reply# 2 7/16/2013 at 11:46 (3,926 days old) by midcenturyfan (Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England) | ||
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| Post# 240233 , Reply# 3 7/16/2013 at 11:53 (3,926 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
MUCH MUCH Earlier
You are giving your youth away now.
This is a carpet shampooer, and dates back at least to the early 1960s when it was known as a Bex Bissel. Basically the orange bit is a tank in which you mixed water and carpet shampoo - typically 1001 (God does the advert on the link ever take me back). There was a trigger on the hand grip which released the liquid onto sponge rollers which moved as the shampooer was moved back and forward. We are not talking deep cleaning here. However the only alternative at the time would have been something like a Hoover Shampoo Polisher or down on your knees with a scrubbing brush You let the carpet dry and vacuumed the residue off - well, in theory you did! Very popular in its day, the one above was from the 1970s - my Mum had one just like it. There was a later version with similar tank which had electrically driven rollers, indeed I think there may have been one in the catalogue scans which Anthony recently loaded. I would say the introduction and popularity of the orange Vax cleaner just about killed these stone dead. Unless its something like 99p, don't waste your money Al CLICK HERE TO GO TO vacbear58's LINK | ||
| Post# 240234 , Reply# 4 7/16/2013 at 12:13 (3,926 days old) by borusa (Edinburgh) | ||
My Mum and my Gran had the early green and white ones. Don't ever remember them generating that much foam. Found a more recent type on Amazon (other mail order companies are available)
CLICK HERE TO GO TO borusa's LINK | ||
| Post# 240235 , Reply# 5 7/16/2013 at 12:20 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240236 , Reply# 6 7/16/2013 at 12:24 (3,926 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Ewbank | ||
| Post# 240237 , Reply# 7 7/16/2013 at 12:27 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240242 , Reply# 8 7/16/2013 at 12:59 (3,926 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
Actually, the Bex Bissell was probably one of the only wet carpet treatment machines offered. My gran had the early green one and then a white one. Not very effective when I think back as the roller was just a thin layer of orange/yellow sponge that turned the shampoo onto the carpet rug. That and Hoover's twin head polisher were about the only alternatives for the home owner if they wanted clean hard floors and washing carpets.
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| Post# 240246 , Reply# 10 7/16/2013 at 13:42 (3,926 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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I knew it was a carpet foamer as I have a red bissel manual carpet foamer in its box in the loft. It's not very effective! | ||
Post# 240250 , Reply# 11 7/16/2013 at 14:22 (3,926 days old) by countryguy  (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 240271 , Reply# 12 7/16/2013 at 15:15 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240273 , Reply# 13 7/16/2013 at 15:25 (3,926 days old) by vintagerepairer (England) | ||
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I always recall them being well used. It has to be remembered that until Vax came along, shampooing was the only in-house method a housewife could opt for. | ||
| Post# 240280 , Reply# 15 7/16/2013 at 15:43 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240290 , Reply# 16 7/16/2013 at 15:52 (3,926 days old) by vintagerepairer (England) | ||
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No, it was the vacuum cleaners which collected dust, literally so. | ||
| Post# 240304 , Reply# 17 7/16/2013 at 17:01 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240321 , Reply# 18 7/16/2013 at 17:22 (3,926 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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I think one of the reasons to why this mechanical roller exists is simply because there is a market for it. Unless you get down on your hands and knees with a Bissell Pet "Little Green" machine, there's still a purpose for the shampoo foam rollers - caravans for starters can benefit as other residential places that are simply too big to have a carpet upright washer or tub vacuum in the first place.
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| Post# 240325 , Reply# 19 7/16/2013 at 17:26 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240327 , Reply# 20 7/16/2013 at 17:26 (3,926 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland) | ||
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| Post# 240571 , Reply# 21 7/17/2013 at 03:26 (3,925 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 240587 , Reply# 22 7/17/2013 at 06:52 (3,925 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom) | ||
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My dearly departed gran used to have loads of them. Apparently she liked them, and everytime a new one came out she would buy it! Personally, can't stand the things!! | ||
| Post# 248386 , Reply# 24 8/30/2013 at 10:26 (3,881 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
Benny, I LOVE Ever Decreasing Circles!! I have the boxsett on DVD. It's very very cleverly written.
I believe the Bryce's (Anne and Martin) had a Goblin Housemaid hardbag and then a Hitachi CV50D (as shown on the kitchen table in the episode you linked to). Here is a quick video of the Bissel Spinfoamer in action. This was the electric model with rotating bristles to sweep the foam through the carpet pile. Not very effective, but does ok. Same method that a Kirby uses. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Turbo500's LINK | ||
| Post# 248388 , Reply# 25 8/30/2013 at 10:39 (3,881 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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@pheasantroost: hi there, Just wondering what model you have? This one doesn't have a switch unless you mean the solution release trigger However there was an electric model which would have had a switch:) | ||
| Post# 248502 , Reply# 28 8/31/2013 at 15:49 (3,880 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
i remember 
having one of these when i was growing up back in the 60s it got well used and as i recall it worked very well i remember my mum using it for the first time on the hall carpet and distinctly remember seeing a clean strip where this rhing had been considering all that elaborate paraphenalia you have to strap onto a Kirby to do the same thing this thing is much better dont get me wrong i love Kirbys but the carpet cleaner is a complete waste of time
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