Thread Number: 9906
New Arrival - from the 1950s - in its original box! |
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Post# 107886   9/7/2010 at 13:49 (4,951 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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Hi there. Just got this Hoover still in its orignal box with all the packaging and tools! What can it be? |
Post# 107887 , Reply# 1   9/7/2010 at 13:49 (4,951 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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Tools |
Post# 107888 , Reply# 2   9/7/2010 at 13:50 (4,951 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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Underneath... |
Post# 107889 , Reply# 3   9/7/2010 at 13:51 (4,951 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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An early Model 417E - a VERY early blue one! |
Post# 107899 , Reply# 4   9/7/2010 at 17:04 (4,951 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 108323 , Reply# 6   9/14/2010 at 10:06 (4,944 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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Does anybody know whether this white hose is original to this model. Would I be right to think that the hose was blue originally? |
Post# 108402 , Reply# 7   9/15/2010 at 12:11 (4,943 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)   |   | |
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Post# 108403 , Reply# 8   9/15/2010 at 12:12 (4,943 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)   |   | |
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Post# 108434 , Reply# 9   9/15/2010 at 21:48 (4,943 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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It is surprising that another has turned up in original box - as I have one too. I think the white hose is a replacement although melded on the the original fittings. I believe that the shortlived second version of the 417 (417C) may have had a braided hose, but that on the 417E as shown above would have been blue - in fact it appears that the C and E versions existed side by side in 1957. The 417E carried on until 1962 or so, when replaced with the 417G, which was the last version of this model but with colour revisions over the years. The 417G did have the white hose and returned to pip & clip tool attachement although it used the smaller combination carpet/floor nozzle used on the Hooverette 417G in its first incarnation shown below Al |
Post# 109010 , Reply# 11   9/22/2010 at 13:17 (4,936 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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Here is the front sheet of the 1964 service manual. |
Post# 109011 , Reply# 12   9/22/2010 at 13:18 (4,936 days old) by 1066hoovers ()   |   | |
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