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Post# 280216   5/12/2014 at 01:11 (3,609 days old) by Brad845 (Harlan, Kentucky)   |   | |
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Post# 280280 , Reply# 2   5/12/2014 at 19:12 (3,608 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 280292 , Reply# 3   5/12/2014 at 20:29 (3,608 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Aside from the question of quality, we all have to give a lot of credit to the Singer Company for hiring Raymond Loewy to design an innovative vacuum which revolutionized the upright configuration forever: the revolutionary design was based on changing the way the motor's fan faced - from the traditional face down (Hoover) or the traditional face forward (Kirby & Royal) to facing sideways. The sideways reorientation of the fan opened up a gazilion options including twin fan uprights, sleek low profile uprights and bag first uprights where the sideways fan creates suction in a vertical canister while also powering a revolving brush in the nozzle.
Singer's innovation is as revolutionary as Dyson's newer bagless uprights, in my opinion.... |
Post# 280297 , Reply# 4   5/12/2014 at 21:08 (3,608 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 280302 , Reply# 5   5/12/2014 at 22:00 (3,608 days old) by sries (Tacoma WA)   |   | |
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Post# 280331 , Reply# 6   5/13/2014 at 09:55 (3,607 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Singer never originated that sideways fan design, nor did it originate the double suction fans. All that was an Air-Way invention on the 1935 "DirtMasteR" model. Air-Way even predated Hoover's side attachment connection. Pretty much everything good we have today in Vacuum Cleaners was an invention of Air-Way.
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Post# 280355 , Reply# 8   5/13/2014 at 14:29 (3,607 days old) by Brad845 (Harlan, Kentucky)   |   | |
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Post# 280398 , Reply# 9   5/13/2014 at 19:04 (3,607 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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My grandmother had an avocado Silver Glide canister for many years. I think she bought it at the Sears she worked in during the time. She had all the attachments and the manual in the coat closet. We used to put it all together and talk vacuums. She sold it with the house.
I have never messed with the twin fan uprights much so can't say. I'm not a big fan of the later tools on board ones in the 1990s that seemed to be the same as the Bissell uprights and I think there was one under the Kenmore brand. I also had one of those stick vacs that converts to a hand vac mentioned in the post above, I had the Bissell version that looked like the Singer. It was a decent vacuum for doing bare floors with, just needed a longer cord! |
Post# 280409 , Reply# 10   5/13/2014 at 21:02 (3,607 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 280460 , Reply# 11   5/14/2014 at 09:56 (3,606 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)   |   | |
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Sears had many vacs by Singer as Kenmores but I think it was the mid 80s before Sears had vacs such as Hoover & Eureka under their own name. The 3 in 1 type was actually very good for the size and price but is another that was once common now rare. |
Post# 281710 , Reply# 15   5/24/2014 at 20:34 (3,596 days old) by Loganvac (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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