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| Post# 30883 2/4/2008 at 05:36 (5,925 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia )) | ||
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Hi All, Have a look at the latest addition to the collection. It's a suction polisher model number F2006 it's made in Italy and from the colour I guess it's from the 70's it has three brushes. I have a few Hoover vac polishers, but have never seen one with a hard bag. Anyone have any info or seen one before. Mark 
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| Post# 30884 , Reply# 1 2/4/2008 at 05:38 (5,925 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia )) | ||
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Pic 2 
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| Post# 30885 , Reply# 2 2/4/2008 at 05:39 (5,925 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia )) | ||
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It even came with a new bag 
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| Post# 30886 , Reply# 3 2/4/2008 at 06:58 (5,925 days old) by ian88 () | ||
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Oh, this is in one of Tommy's italian brochures...1970-something vintage. I'd love more pictures, mate :) | ||
Post# 30906 , Reply# 5 2/4/2008 at 16:07 (5,924 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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| Post# 30913 , Reply# 6 2/4/2008 at 16:40 (5,924 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
Here it is! | ||
| Post# 30914 , Reply# 7 2/4/2008 at 16:42 (5,924 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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| Post# 30915 , Reply# 8 2/4/2008 at 16:43 (5,924 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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| Post# 30934 , Reply# 9 2/4/2008 at 19:40 (5,924 days old) by 1990740gl () | ||
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so why exactly do they have bags if they are polishers? | ||
| Post# 30946 , Reply# 12 2/5/2008 at 04:08 (5,924 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia )) | ||
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Here's a couple of pics of my other Suction polishers, love this one it's like a 652 on steroids ! check out the base, this is another 3 brush model 
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| Post# 30947 , Reply# 13 2/5/2008 at 04:12 (5,924 days old) by ozhoover (London UK (but born and raised in Melbourne, Australia )) | ||
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and the two brush models, the green one was sold in the UK not sure about the brown. (have posted this one before). These have a shake out bags Mark 
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Post# 30948 , Reply# 14 2/5/2008 at 05:44 (5,924 days old) by aussie-plugs (Melbourne, Australia) |
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Hi Mark, Thanks for the offer to keep your eyes open for a 652. I see you have even more amazing machines in your collection - those polishers are incredible - I never knew such things existed. BTW, I'm just down the road in Mascot. Nick | ||
| Post# 30949 , Reply# 15 2/5/2008 at 07:27 (5,923 days old) by luxg () | ||
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Mark thanks for all those neat pictures. What an interesting machine. I wonder why they never introduced something like that here? | ||
| Post# 30951 , Reply# 16 2/5/2008 at 08:18 (5,923 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Finding Old Machines
Dont know if you've tried this but a few years ago I put an ad in the paper. Wanted - Old vacuum cleaners and parts for collection - need not be working. I had a couple dozen calls from it. Most people were willing to either give me the stuff just to get it out of the garage (Too good to throw out but didnt know what to do with it) or sell it very reasonably. I think there was only one call from a guy that figured his was worth a fortune. Worth a try anyway. Think I may do it again this summer. Doug | ||
| Post# 30967 , Reply# 18 2/5/2008 at 16:28 (5,923 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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Hello, I'll try to tell how the market of floor polishers developed in my country, Italy. I am an interior designer and it happens often to me to read old magazines dealing with architecture, interior design, trends etc. and one of my favourites is called "Domus" founded and directed by the famous italian Architect Giņ Ponti. The magazine was released in 1928 and in one number of 1930 I found an interesting article on electrical appliances, showing among the others an electrical wax dispenser made of a larhe hard wax container over an appliance with a handle on topand a large pad through which resistence heated wax was released and efficiently spread on floors; then there was the first type of electrical floor polisher I've ever seen published in Italy: a small, cylindrical motor unit with handle ( with switch and power cord an it) and for polishing a large cylindrical belt driven brush, in the style of kirbies's but much larger i diameter.I'll post that page. The next publication of of a floor polisher is in 1932 and it was the first Electrolux ad I saw, showing model Z 25 (of which I'm a proud owner and the triple brush floor polisher, with no suction, feature that that all Electrolux floor polishers (air operated polishers excluded)) have always lead on, later coinciding with carpet shampooers, think also about the hoovers.Follows, Tommy 
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| Post# 30968 , Reply# 19 2/5/2008 at 16:29 (5,923 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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| Post# 30969 , Reply# 20 2/5/2008 at 17:08 (5,923 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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Later, let's say from 1936 I found advertisings of another brand of floor polishers and, later, vacuum cleaners: Columbus. The first one I saw was a two-brush model with bag.In practice people understood that they could pick up dist and dirt from their hard floors while keeping them shiny. A few months later a triple brush model(with the third brush in the front) was itroduced and remained published for many years. Triple brush polishers were excellent because they could spread even hard waxes easily with hard bristles brushes in a very uniform way, then polish with softer(usually black) bristles, and later with felt pads. The wide use of hard floors in italy ( usually marble in living areas and wooden in bedrooms) mad floor polishers much more popular than vacuum cleaners in general, at least before the Fifties, as vacuum cleaners were very expensive and many people preferred to beat rugs and upholstered furniture outside but have shiny marbles or woods...no comment! In the course of the Fifties Italian economy grew up quickly and many other brands of electrical aplliances appeared, some had the luck to survive for many years.One of the best brands that specialized in floor polishers was REM, producing at least three sizes of triple brush suction polishers (after producing a two-brush version) allowing to take care perfectly from very small to very large areas. Hoover introduced the suction polisher in the early Sixties just because Italian market needed it and Hoover policy has always been "give them exactly what they need". would you like to know something interesting? From the late SIxties most of Italian floor polishers were made by a pair of factories and sold under differnt shapes and brands...if you turn them upside-down you see the same brushes same diameter, same features.Isn't it funny? I made a little mistake before sayng that Electrolux never made suction polishers: they mad a very heavy, tough, large triple brush suction polisher, but I can't find a pictue of it now! I'll post it as I find it! I hope this helped a little bit Tommy P.s.: This is my Medium sised REM 
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| Post# 30970 , Reply# 21 2/5/2008 at 17:09 (5,923 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
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