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Thread Number: 2938
Latest acquistion - Switson Industries Canadian Tire Model R-70 |
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| Post# 32299 2/17/2008 at 09:44 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
This is in such superb virtually mint condition I'm pinching myself. I snagged it to keep it in Canada. Doug Smith recognized it's origins immediately. Branded for Canadian Tires stores, made by Switson Industries of Welland Ontario, it's as complete as the day it was purchased, which would have been between 1956 and 1959. Not one blemish. The only wear is some peeled off grey hammertone enamel on the carpet tool swivel connector. 
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| Post# 32300 , Reply# 1 2/17/2008 at 09:46 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32301 , Reply# 2 2/17/2008 at 09:48 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32302 , Reply# 3 2/17/2008 at 09:50 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32303 , Reply# 4 2/17/2008 at 09:51 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32304 , Reply# 5 2/17/2008 at 09:52 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32306 , Reply# 6 2/17/2008 at 10:01 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Undamaged Tool Caddy. Other than the shelf sag and upper flare which I will fix by inserting stiffener rods in the front folds. The cardboard is printed with a pattern of the can Tire icoceles triangle. The foregoing pix taken before any spa treatment...like it needs one! But it will get it anyway. This pristine 50 year old Canadian vacuum find excites Old Davy unreasonably. :-) 
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| Post# 32309 , Reply# 7 2/17/2008 at 10:09 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 32310 , Reply# 8 2/17/2008 at 10:17 (5,912 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Post# 32352 , Reply# 9 2/17/2008 at 12:40 (5,912 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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Post# 32411 , Reply# 11 2/17/2008 at 18:05 (5,912 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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| Post# 32445 , Reply# 12 2/17/2008 at 23:33 (5,912 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Good find Dave, you seem to be having good luck lately. Would like to see the catalog featuring that to see what it cost when new. | ||
| Post# 32455 , Reply# 13 2/18/2008 at 08:17 (5,911 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Me too, Pete. Someone somewhere has heaps of Can Tire Catalogs right beside the Eatons catalogs and National Geographics...and Mechanix Illustrated. LOL Today I'm taking apart the 16" oscillating fan. ALL metal construction - only plastic piece is the bakelite switch knob. The slightly shuddering motor is jampacked with original dust and the gearcase has its original grease all hardened up. Metal helical gears, of course. Just like those cheap plastic oscillating fans but metal. To engage the oscillating feature, rather than popping the knob in or out, you turn the protruding knob until it compresses a clutch plate. The rotating plate the articulating arm bolts to has two bolt holes to set the sweep from 45 degrees to 180. | ||
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