Thread Number: 28875
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Electrolux 170 |
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Post# 322664   4/20/2015 at 13:58 (3,265 days old) by Paulinroyton (Royton, Lancashire)   |   | |
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As you know an old lady gave me her old hover junior in mint condition. Well tonight the old lady's daughter called with the other vac she had and here she is. |
Post# 322665 , Reply# 1   4/20/2015 at 13:58 (3,265 days old) by Paulinroyton (Royton, Lancashire)   |   | |
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Post# 322666 , Reply# 2   4/20/2015 at 13:59 (3,265 days old) by Paulinroyton (Royton, Lancashire)   |   | |
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Post# 322721 , Reply# 3   4/20/2015 at 22:17 (3,265 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)   |   | |
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Post# 322732 , Reply# 5   4/21/2015 at 04:56 (3,265 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Whilst what Benny has noted above is correct this machine was around in more or less the same form since around 1966 when it first appeared as the 152 in white with dark green accents. The colour scheme was updated to coffee/cream with the 160 - still more or less the same until changing to the 170 shown above.
As noted above it was mainly competition for the Hoover Junior and Goblin upright models and although it has several advantages over the Junior (chiefly in the area of bag replacement) it never seem to do as well as might be expected, and certainly no where near the success of the later, and more expensive 500 series. They are good cleaners though and with a full with agitator and brush strip it produces that thump sound familiar to anyone who used a Hoover cleaner of the same era. I believe this design (more or less) is still around 50 years later as the Fakir. It was also sold in the US (not as Electrolux) in a soft bag version and the base even as a power nozzle Al |
Post# 322834 , Reply# 7   4/21/2015 at 15:08 (3,264 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 322840 , Reply# 8   4/21/2015 at 15:32 (3,264 days old) by Vintagerepairer (England)   |   | |
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Suckolux, you will love how the bag fits. |
Post# 323286 , Reply# 9   4/25/2015 at 15:45 (3,260 days old) by Vaclover (Freestate, Virginia, South Africa)   |   | |
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Interestingly ive seen that yours have openings for edge cleaning at the brush plate, i have 2 here in south africa and both dont have the openings for edge cleaning. Ruan |