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| Post# 120929 , Reply# 1 1/11/2011 at 04:10 (4,850 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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Looks like a TurboPower to me, but then, Hoover naming seems to always differ between the UK and US... :) I have a set of tools that would probably fit that... 
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| Post# 120974 , Reply# 2 1/11/2011 at 16:22 (4,850 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
Turbopower
As it was known in the UK. More or less a replacement for the Junior, although the production overlapped for five years or so, and the softbag version was even badged as Junior. We had loads of variants of these including a "bagless" version in the mid 1990s. The mainline Hoover versions generally did not have headlights, those were (mostly) for exclusives. Later versions had permanently attached hoses, which was basically a variation of that used from the 150 onwards, until the pan converter was re-adopted - this was supposedly an improvement on using a pan, as shown above. Basically a small hole was cut in the upper left hand side of the base into the suction channel from the brushroll- the worst of both worlds crap suction and a small exit from the hose into the machine as there was no diversion of suction from the brushroll. Very popular machine here and my (late) Junior version of this has terrific suction
Al | ||
| Post# 120978 , Reply# 3 1/11/2011 at 16:38 (4,850 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
Jason -
That US Sovereign is rare as hen's teeth. I can't tell you how long they were sold here. I saw them VERY briefly in 1984. Here's a Macy's ad from December of 1984 (from the San Francisco Chronicle). They stopped carrying them within about a MONTH of this ad! Obviously more durable as the Turbopower in the UK! 
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| Post# 121006 , Reply# 4 1/11/2011 at 22:58 (4,850 days old) by powertank () | ||
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Ugh. I saw a beat up tan one of those in a thift store recently as well as a Decade 80. I was not impressed with the quality, so I steered clear of it. | ||
| Post# 121013 , Reply# 5 1/11/2011 at 23:30 (4,850 days old) by vacman117 (Chicago, IL) | ||
WOW! | ||
| Post# 121035 , Reply# 7 1/12/2011 at 09:05 (4,849 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 121042 , Reply# 8 1/12/2011 at 09:29 (4,849 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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"In england, nobody ever says 'vacuum'..." I do, cos Hoover is a brand that made washers, dryers, irons, kettles, fridges, freezers, toasters, and vacuum cleaners too... :P I'd love to see someone "hoover" their floor with a twin-tub.... :P | ||
| Post# 121056 , Reply# 9 1/12/2011 at 12:23 (4,849 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
Now!! | ||
| Post# 121121 , Reply# 11 1/13/2011 at 01:57 (4,848 days old) by djtaylor (Salt Lake City, Utah) | ||
Hooverize
I've never heard of it called 'Hooverize', I have heard the term
to 'Hoover' the carpet. I have also heard that the British call it 'Hoovering' the carpet because it was Hoover that mass marketed to the British public first. Whereas if it had been Goblin then the term might have been to 'Goblin' up the dust. I got that from an episode of 'Are You Being Served?'. I wonder what they would have called it if Royal had sold in Britain in the 1920's? Justin | ||
| Post# 121199 , Reply# 12 1/13/2011 at 17:21 (4,848 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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Imagine if the Hoover brand remained in the Spangler name; Don't mind me, I'm just Spanglering the floors... :S | ||
| Post# 121394 , Reply# 13 1/15/2011 at 10:33 (4,846 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 121396 , Reply# 14 1/15/2011 at 10:35 (4,846 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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there was no diversion of suction from the brushroll | ||
| Post# 121592 , Reply# 15 1/16/2011 at 11:41 (4,845 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Turbopower bagless
Chris
My comment arose from what I saw in by Turbopower "Freedom" the so called bagless one, and I could not see any way that the suction was diverted to teh hose. There is some suction of course, but not much, arther like teh Senior/US Convertable. When I got the cleaner, the attachement point was almost blocked with Shake and Vac (the whole inside of the cleaner was covered and caked with S&V in fact) and other gunk, it was so small Al | ||
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