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The 71-year-old vacuum cleaner that's still going strong 		[Down to Last]

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Post# 13793   5/14/2007 at 11:58 (6,182 days old) by charles~richard ()        

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Post# 13795 , Reply# 1   5/14/2007 at 12:46 (6,182 days old) by vintagehoover ()        

Interesting article, although I think calling it the 'oldest working appliance in Britain' is ridiculous; pure tabloid hype - but what less could you expect from the Daily Mail?! I have several working machines older than that, and I'm sure many other members of this forum do too!

Post# 13796 , Reply# 2   5/14/2007 at 13:23 (6,182 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Oh, absolutely!

 I just thot the guy is such a loveable old coot -- that's me in about 25 years, hahaha! (And is SOME of us today, hahahahaha!!
Seriously, can you imagine someone who is actually still cleaning their house, using as a daily driver, such an old klunker? Lord only knows what filth is lurking in THOSE carpets
It's one thing to have old machines for fun and nostalgia, quite another to be deluded into believing they actually do a thorough job of cleaning! Especially a straight-suction tank. This machine looks very similar to an Electrolux XII and I imagine is of about comparable power -- in other words, pretty wimpy! Even when judged against the XXX, which has significantly more suction than the XII
On the other hand, I'd say it's a fairly easy bet that any of the Hoovers from the 700 up through the last Convertibles would out-clean just about any machine on the market today. And the user would look SO much more glamorous than when shoving some hideously garish plastic monstrosity around the house


Post# 13797 , Reply# 3   5/14/2007 at 14:31 (6,182 days old) by 74simon ()        
Yes,

 I was thinking that it can't do a great job either. The Goblin Triumph was one of the high-end models in its time though, with a whopping 235 watts of power! Still, at least he's not using one of those pneumatic brooms, or a hand cranked thingy..
Having said that, I have been suprised before at how much dirt a low power suction only cleaner ends up with in its bag. But I'd rather put my faith in an agitator upright. There's that deep-down damaging grit to worry about!

Post# 13929 , Reply# 4   5/17/2007 at 04:13 (6,179 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)        

Lets send the Kirby,Rainbow,Filter Queen,TriStar salesmen to his house!!I can go along with the previous entry-with that suction only machine-his rugs and carpets must be more than their own weight full of dirt!Maybe someone can rig up a powernozzle attachment for his Goblin?that would help.

Post# 13930 , Reply# 5   5/17/2007 at 04:20 (6,179 days old) by ian88 ()        

I dunno, being an older gentleman I would presume he'd need a lighter vac, much like that goblin
This ain't "Superman: The twilight years" folks.


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