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Thread Number: 2964
Hoover UK Floorcare 1969 |
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| Post# 32730 2/20/2008 at 04:07 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Well every home deserved a new Hoover cleaner obviously... 
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| Post# 32731 , Reply# 1 2/20/2008 at 04:08 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Uprights 1 . 
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| Post# 32732 , Reply# 2 2/20/2008 at 04:09 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Uprights 2 . 
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| Post# 32733 , Reply# 3 2/20/2008 at 04:11 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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The New Conquest Cylinder Si this ones for you ;) 
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| Post# 32734 , Reply# 4 2/20/2008 at 04:12 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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More Cylinders... . 
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| Post# 32735 , Reply# 5 2/20/2008 at 04:13 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Lightweights.... . 
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| Post# 32736 , Reply# 6 2/20/2008 at 04:14 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Polishers... . 
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| Post# 32737 , Reply# 7 2/20/2008 at 04:17 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Back cover With tool details 
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| Post# 32742 , Reply# 9 2/20/2008 at 06:32 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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:) Hey Mate Id not noticed the Senior bag - very observant of you lol. Ive decided I NEED White Shag pile..... Dont know what the landlord would think tho! Someone should have pointed out to Conquest woman she really needed an upright...... Seamus | ||
| Post# 32743 , Reply# 10 2/20/2008 at 06:34 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Oh almost forgot.... I have no idea on the Hooverette- maybe Gerry Anderson had a part in that- you just cant see the strings lol!!!! | ||
| Post# 32748 , Reply# 11 2/20/2008 at 08:55 (5,902 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Re Hooverette | ||
| Post# 32749 , Reply# 12 2/20/2008 at 09:01 (5,902 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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lol Hey Doug I would imagine you are correct- for anyone that didnt get the Gerry Anderson reference just think Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet etc! Seamus | ||
Post# 32751 , Reply# 13 2/20/2008 at 09:14 (5,902 days old) by chestermikeuk  (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.) |
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Hoover
Hi Seamus, lovely collection of classic hoovers!!!wow those carpets as well BMK Acrylon Rustic Rouge!!!hows that for a memory...LOL and White Loop Shag!!! The first time I saw a Convertable (DAM) was through a letter box whilst delivering newspapers, I only saw the back of it with the full toolset attached, I thought it was a new breed of vac...which to us it was... The conquest floor tool, did first models come with the word hoover across the front?? or was that for photo purposes!! Why is the Hooverette standing:: am I missing something?? it seems to be perfectly adequate leaning against the chair, dont you mean the carpet sweeper!!! now that does fall over and cant stay up Simon, Hoover Bedroom Mules and not a slingback in sight...marvelous...Cheers, Mike | ||
| Post# 32862 , Reply# 14 2/21/2008 at 08:52 (5,901 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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I was disappointed..... That whilst the Conquest section mentions Blue Serge there is no reference to the dirty great elephant made of said material..... Any chance of posting said advert Si ? ;) | ||
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Post# 32868 , Reply# 15 2/21/2008 at 11:05 (5,901 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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Post# 32904 , Reply# 17 2/21/2008 at 14:08 (5,901 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.) |
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Hoover - Who Better...!!!!Blue Serge | ||
| Post# 32995 , Reply# 18 2/22/2008 at 13:50 (5,900 days old) by watsonw (Newport, Shropshire, UK) | ||
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Thanks Mike, Your conquest is immaculate like all your machines, I'm convinced that you travel back and forth in time for brand new machines instead of ebaying / car booting !! | ||
| Post# 33732 , Reply# 23 3/2/2008 at 00:04 (5,891 days old) by luxg () | ||
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I loved looking at all of these ads, thanks so much for sharing them!! | ||
| Post# 300708 , Reply# 24 10/5/2014 at 15:26 (3,483 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
that orange carpet 
looks suspiciously like luxury you can afford from Cyril lord with Enkalon whatever that was i can still remember the tune .my mum had a conquest back in 1970 i think it fell down the stairs and the handle broke off .My dads idea of a repair was to screw on an old leather trouser belt from side to side i am sure he got the idea from seeing my grans electrolux Z65 .the Conquest lived to be 38 years old b efore it finally died
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| Post# 300787 , Reply# 25 10/6/2014 at 05:09 (3,482 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
Luxury You Can Afford
Gosh that takes me back a long way. A former colleague of mine used to work for Cyril Lord in Belfast in the 1960s - he said that as many carpets "went out the back door" as went out in the delivery truck. I can just about remember the TV ads but there seem to be none on you tube.
What I do have though is the dirty great elephant. This was Hoover's long awaited answer to the somewhat more elegant Electrolux 90/100 series, although the Conquest's styling is very current for the time, it always seemed reminiscent of the Mk1 Ford Capri or Mk4 Zephyr/Zodiac cars. Bear in mind that the Electrolux models had been on sale since around 1964 and indeed established a new market segment for canister cleaners in the UK. The turbo nozzle was a means of differentiation from the Lux cleaners and I think is the only sign of such a nozzle on Hoover for very many years although about 10 years later Hoover did pioneer, rather unsuccessfully, the electrically driven power nozzle so familiar to US and Canadian members. The 417 series continued on till around 1971 (having first appeared in 1953) when it was replaced by the 427 series. This looked somewhat similar to the 419/429/Harlequin as it shared the handle and front cover latch arrangement but in fact it was completely different. The 427 carried on until around 1983 as a store exclusive (Co-op springs to mind) and in other territories - I have seen versions with ring lock wands rather than the more traditional pip and clip. The 419 Harlequin was introduced in around 1964 primarily as a competitor to the Electrolux 65 and there were two series of colour ways: Black/Olive Green/Red stripy sort of material and then the colour series shown above. The cleaners above show the two lug twist hose connector, the earlier machines (and this includes this colour series machines) had a push to release style similar to that on the first series 417 (and I think Hoover Holiday) - the later 417s had a simpler finish. Here is the Harlequin It must have been around 1970 or so that the Harlequin was upgraded with an added bag full indicator and the, by then standard, flip over Carpet/floor nozzle. This model was available in tartan only. The Conquest and Harlequin models were completely dropped in 1973 (I think) when the all new Freedom series was launched. And a small note of correction on the Hooverflex stretch hoses. Although they first appeared on the 638 (Senior), 822 (Connie), 417E (Cylinder) and Dustette models (NOT the Junior till model 1224 which was somewhat later than the other models) there was a short period when these cleaners were supplied with a blue patterned braided hose - whether or not they ran side by side for a time I cannot say. Al | ||
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