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Hoover Celebrity S3005 |
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Post# 91352 , Reply# 1   2/11/2010 at 15:13 (5,158 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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Post# 91354 , Reply# 3   2/11/2010 at 15:19 (5,158 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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Set up for use...of course, being a Hoover, it runs like new! |
Post# 91355 , Reply# 4   2/11/2010 at 15:20 (5,158 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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The cleaner... |
Post# 91356 , Reply# 5   2/11/2010 at 15:21 (5,158 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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With the motor-cover removed. Extremely clean inside. |
Post# 91357 , Reply# 6   2/11/2010 at 15:42 (5,158 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 91359 , Reply# 7   2/11/2010 at 16:05 (5,158 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 91366 , Reply# 8   2/11/2010 at 17:11 (5,158 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Jack The Celebrity Air Ride was around in this country quite a long time, certainly from 1975 if not sooner, I suspect from the time of the 858 Connies sold here. Origionally sold with US floor nozzle and all purpose brush and telescopic tube. It appears in the 1981 brochure with the combination floor tool yours has, although there with telescopic tube too. It appears alongside the late model Connie (Yellow with rocker switch) interestingly also with aluminum tube, the rest of the range having gone over to plastic. The Air ride also appeared in Orange/Brown colour scheme, although I remember the yellow version as being the first scheme. We also had one larger model Celebrity here with wheels, even more rare than the Concept one. We certainly never had the variety of the US models, and certainly no power nozzle. I suspect, from seeing an POD here that it was the base model of the larger Celebrities. It seems strange that Hoover would have had two floating models side by side (I presume the Air ride was the successor to the Connie in the US) but the Air ride was not popular here, although they do crop up on ebay reasonably often. I suspect many of them shared the fate of yours - consigned to the attic Alan, I am sorry but I think the air ride is a horrible cleaner (OK I do have one in my collection) noisy (the Connie being reasonably quiet), and incredibly inconvenient as the handle was so low (not a problem with the Connie), a comparitivly short hose and the attendent problem of the Connie, of getting it to float over door straddles etc. An example of form over function, to me it never had the quirky charm of the Connie. But that is just my opinion of course. When I first moved to London in 1986 the house I lived in used one as its daily driver and one over the novelty I HATED it. Of course this was the time when Hoover was flooding the market with all manner of overlapping models (uprights too) so confusing the consumer in what to buy. That said, it is great for Jack to have one in such good condition and with the box too. Interesting too that it has UK instruction, mine came with US instructions, but it is much older. Here is the page from the 1981 instructions, courtsey of Hooverbaby |
Post# 91368 , Reply# 9   2/11/2010 at 17:31 (5,158 days old) by seamusuk (Dover Kent UK)   |   | |
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Hey Jack... That looks great to me - whats the serial number- as Al said with that floor tool and the 2 seperate extension tubes its probably a late one?? Seamus |
Post# 91369 , Reply# 10   2/11/2010 at 17:43 (5,158 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 91372 , Reply# 11   2/11/2010 at 18:12 (5,158 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 91418 , Reply# 12   2/12/2010 at 03:46 (5,158 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Alan I doubt you are not the only one to have tried a machine more than once, unless you have very accessable storage it is not easy to keep using machines in rotation. Actually I can go one better and say that there are several in my collection I have not actually used at all! Oh how I envy members with their large & dry basements. The large Celebrity be had here was an earlier version than the ones you posted (they actually look quite nice) with the large round motor housing on the top Al |
Post# 91419 , Reply# 13   2/12/2010 at 04:07 (5,158 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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'Suction power falls as a vacuum cleaner bag fills. And there goes cleaning effectiveness!' I've heard that before somewhere... |
Post# 91424 , Reply# 15   2/12/2010 at 08:09 (5,158 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Al-I have so little space here, most of the machines are in horrible places, some have never even been turned on, I really want to get a shed, or have the screen porch closed, but I've put out so much money over the past three years it isn't funny. I'm so glad you got the Celebrity Jack, the lady made a good call on that. It is a frivolous little machine for sure, but it is a Hoover! |
Post# 91425 , Reply# 16   2/12/2010 at 08:13 (5,158 days old) by petek (Ontario)   |   | |
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The air ride Celebrity is one of my youthful favorites. I bought the red model new, would have been circa 1980, for a then curent BF. It did come with a power nozzle although the nozzle cord was external to the hose. |
Post# 91429 , Reply# 17   2/12/2010 at 09:25 (5,158 days old) by hooverbaby (Dalton in Furness, UK)   |   | |
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It's always nice to get virtually unused machines in their original boxes like that. Mind you, it would put me off using the machine, since I'd want it to stay that way! Al, we have a dry basement here but unfortunately dad fills it with all his books..so I have to keep most of my cleaners elsewhere.. Stephen |
Post# 91431 , Reply# 18   2/12/2010 at 09:33 (5,158 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 91566 , Reply# 19   2/12/2010 at 22:26 (5,157 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 91593 , Reply# 20   2/13/2010 at 07:07 (5,157 days old) by hooverbaby (Dalton in Furness, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 91598 , Reply# 21   2/13/2010 at 07:53 (5,157 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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