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Thread Number: 2892
What happened to the Lewyts |
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| Post# 31739 2/12/2008 at 19:19 (5,916 days old) by kirbyboy1 () | ||
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OK So I was wondering. What happened to the lewyt vacuum cleaner company. I have a leader and its a great vacuum. what happened to the company? | ||
| Post# 31750 , Reply# 1 2/12/2008 at 20:04 (5,916 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Lewyt went bankrupt around 1962. The electronic models (with power nozzles)ran on a low voltage system which used a secondary winding in the motor and grounded through the body of the machine. Unfortunately it had a tendancy of shorting out and giving the user a shock which resulted in a number of lawsuits that bankrupted the company. Their assets were sold off and Shetland Manufacturing Corp. bought the rights to the name and the parts in the US. They made a different style of Lewyt right up to the 80's (someone else has the name now and it was out as a very cheap machine around 2000). At the same time Holland Electro in Holland bought the design for the big wheels machines and produced them, with their own parts, in Europe untill the late 80's. I've included a picture of one below. Guess thats the history in a nutshell. Doug PS: Incidentally the European machine was called a Holland Electro Toppy. The picture is courtesy of a friend (and fellow collector) in Belgium 
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| Post# 31762 , Reply# 2 2/12/2008 at 21:10 (5,916 days old) by luxg () | ||
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Douglas, that was very interesting, thanks for sharing that information with us. | ||
| Post# 31770 , Reply# 3 2/12/2008 at 22:14 (5,916 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 31775 , Reply# 4 2/12/2008 at 23:00 (5,916 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS) | ||
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| Post# 31798 , Reply# 5 2/13/2008 at 07:02 (5,915 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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That's easy, Phillip. Go to Doug Smith's Late Lewyt page. Then go to the home page and bookmark his informative and invaluable site. Don't let the pop-ups annoy you - just X'em. :-) Dave CLICK HERE TO GO TO aeoliandave's LINK | ||
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