Thread Number: 31191  /  Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Hotpoint Mastercleaner 3300
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Post# 345007   2/22/2016 at 23:32 (2,957 days old) by michaelwalter (christchurch, new zealand)        

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Hi Guys

This weeks latest purchase heading to NZ from the UK.

I don't know much about this cleaner so any info greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Mike


Post# 345058 , Reply# 1   2/23/2016 at 04:58 (2,957 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
Hotpoint,

Nice little vac. Hotpoint sure had (has) a varied product line across the pond.
General Electric must have licensed the name out to various manufacturers.
It has owned the Hotpoint name since the 1930's.
Here in the states, Hotpoint is a GE only variant of major appliance white goods.
When GE still made vacuums, never did they brand one Hotpoint here.


Post# 345076 , Reply# 2   2/23/2016 at 08:15 (2,957 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)        
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I wondered who won that auction.

Firstly GEC should not be confused with GE and I believe at the time we are looking at UK Hotpoint was nothing to do with US Hotpoint.

If we stick to the post WW2 era both GEC and Hotpoint had a reasonably wide range of domestic appliances encompassing refrigeration, cooking, laundry and vacuum cleaners. Hotpoint carried an upright vacuum only, GEC both canister and upright cleaners.

Around 1960 Hotpoint and the domestic appliance arm of GEC were merged into the AEI group and from that point the GEC brand name wound gradually down and the two appliance lines merged into one under the Hotpoint brand. As far as vacuums go the first sign of this was the Hotpoint Light and Easy upright from 1963 which might easily have originally designed as a GEC.
The Mastercleaner 3300 came around 1966 and is effectively the replacement for the GEC canister from the early 1960s. The clear characteristic indicating GEC design heritage is the very long hose handle, also a characteristic of the L&E upright.
The cleaner itself sounds exactly like an (European) Electrolux which indicates that the motors might have been sourced from them. The toolset resembles that from the L&E although the combination rug/floor nozzle looks like no other I have seen. These models are pretty rare - this is only the second I have seen on ebay and I have only seen one other example else where.
This model was still around in 1968 but by 1970 or so it had been replaced by a new model - I do not know if that was built in the UK or may have been bought in from Germany from where the later Hotpoint range was sourced.

Al


Post# 345119 , Reply# 3   2/23/2016 at 13:37 (2,956 days old) by michaelwalter (christchurch, new zealand)        

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Hi Al

Many thanks for the info. Here's a photo of the rating plate underneath, it's definately UK.

Cheers

Mike


Post# 345126 , Reply# 4   2/23/2016 at 16:25 (2,956 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
General Electric,

I knew is not GEC.

Post# 345155 , Reply# 5   2/23/2016 at 18:33 (2,956 days old) by blknblu (CT)        

Age of vacuum ..

 

There is mention of this vacuum in a newsletter/magazine from 1968 called Which? by Consumer Association comparing vacuums. Price is shown as 26 pounds.

 

It is also listed in a 1968 copy of the Electrical Review.

 

 


Post# 345166 , Reply# 6   2/23/2016 at 21:29 (2,956 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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Surely there must be some historical connection between the American General Electric Company and the British General Electric Company. It just seems too coincidental that both GE companies would be connected to the brandname Hotpoint....no?

Post# 345191 , Reply# 7   2/24/2016 at 01:32 (2,956 days old) by kenkart ()        
RE American Hotpoint Products

In the 20s Hotpoint did sell vacuums, and in the 50s they also sold TVs, basically re badged GEs.

Post# 345200 , Reply# 8   2/24/2016 at 04:00 (2,956 days old) by Vintagerepairer (England)        

There was a Hotpoint UK connection with Hotpoint US, but only in the early days when the brand first came over here. Hotpoint US was part of a company called General Electric (GE), and in the UK the Hotpoint name merged with a company that was part of General Electric Company (GEC). GE and GEC were only linked by similar names; they were nothing to do with each other and it was only really coincidence that the names sounded very alike.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotpoint#U...

As for the Hotpoint Masterclean sounding like and Electrolux, I never got to take one apart to see what the motor was like, but I do know the plastic tubes were practically identical to those which Electrolux used on their model 64.


Post# 345203 , Reply# 9   2/24/2016 at 05:53 (2,956 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
re; US Hotpoint

is still a General Electric marketing division for low end laundry, and kitchen major appliances.


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