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Thread Number: 23603
The English Hoover Commercial, 918 |
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Post# 264303 , Reply# 1 1/20/2014 at 23:40 (3,747 days old) by KirbyClassicIII  (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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Nina,
This cleaner was obviously made by the U.K. subsidiary of Hoover, which was founded in Perivale, Middlesex, England in 1932 (24 years after Hoover was founded here in the U.S.). Although this is a British import, some of the finishing touches were stateside efforts (meaning, finished at our nation's Hoover plant in North Canton, OH) such as the motor switch. The U.K. equivalent of this commercial cleaner was the 912A. Over here (in the U.S.), prior to the 918 there was the 913. By 1979, the 918 was superseded by the U7037 (U7008 in the U.K.), which was finally dropped after 1983; however, in the U.K., this model continued production as the model C1312 into the early 1990s (the very last examples over there had the orange bag). ~Ben | ||
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Post# 264365 , Reply# 3 1/21/2014 at 13:54 (3,746 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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