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Post# 120501 , Reply# 1   1/7/2011 at 17:15 (4,829 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 120504 , Reply# 3   1/7/2011 at 17:42 (4,829 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 120506 , Reply# 4   1/7/2011 at 18:28 (4,829 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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I also loved today's pic of the day, mostly because it features one of my favorite "coffee can" Hoovers, the 475. I am lucky to have one in my collection, which was a gift from Tom Anderson about 4 years ago, along with an original hose and suction connector. I eventually was able to find cleaning tools for it, but the crevice tool is black bakelite (instead of metal as it shows in the ad) and the floor brush is a brown one from a later model. Only need the blower connector, tool caddy (or box?) and instruction book to make it complete.
And not only is it one of my favorite "coffee can" Hoovers, it was also my first, to be joined later by a 300, 541, 700 Special, and a 425. Jeff |
Post# 120537 , Reply# 5   1/7/2011 at 21:26 (4,829 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 120571 , Reply# 6   1/8/2011 at 04:21 (4,829 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 120611 , Reply# 8   1/8/2011 at 12:07 (4,828 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 120627 , Reply# 9   1/8/2011 at 15:49 (4,828 days old) by sanimatic ()   |   | |
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Is anyone familiar with her? Nostalgia buff that I am, I can't say that I've ever heard of her before. Loving these new (to Vacuumland) PODs. |
Post# 120632 , Reply# 10   1/8/2011 at 16:26 (4,828 days old) by sanimatic ()   |   | |
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I had to research her on Google and quite a bit came up. A very famous contralto opera singer from the early 1900s. CLICK HERE TO GO TO sanimatic's LINK |
Post# 120662 , Reply# 13   1/8/2011 at 20:49 (4,828 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 120668 , Reply# 14   1/8/2011 at 21:18 (4,828 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 120690 , Reply# 16   1/9/2011 at 02:12 (4,828 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Charles, I really don't know if the center rivet was factory or added, but I think your theory is a good one that Hoover may have noticed the droop and corrected it during the run. I also noticed that the bags on yours and mine are identical, but John's is slightly different--ours both say "it beats as it sweeps as it cleans" and his doesn't, and the typeface used for "The Hoover" is Gothic on ours but an oldstyle face like Caslon or Goudy on his.
Either way, all three of them were either made in 1935 or 1936. The serial # on mine is 4851141 if either or both of you want to compare numbers to see which is older or newer. Who knows, depending on how close the numbers are, they could have been made the same year, month, week, or maybe even the same day! Would be interesting to find out, wouldn't it! Jeff |
Post# 120739 , Reply# 17   1/9/2011 at 16:22 (4,827 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Jeff - I'm pretty sure that mine is the original bag. Here's the ad that was featured the other day, showing the bag that mine has. The bags that you two have look like they were from the 150 era (1936-ish), because that was when they switched to that great Art Deco lettered look. I wonder if Hoover did a newer run of those bags as the 475 moved on in the production line? Unfortunately, I cannot look at my serial number, because my 475 is in storage.....
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Post# 120931 , Reply# 19   1/11/2011 at 06:23 (4,826 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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