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Zelmer Vacuum Cleaners now in Canada
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Post# 245318   8/12/2013 at 05:43 (3,881 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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Was at La Maison de L'aspirateur in Montreal yesterday to buy dust bags, and noticed that they were selling vacs made by the Polish company Zelmer! Did a little research on this and found out that one of the major shareholders of the vac-maker is Bosch Siemens of Germany.

Are these vacs available in the USA too? What about the UK?



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Post# 245320 , Reply# 1   8/12/2013 at 05:59 (3,881 days old) by vintagerepairer (England)        

Well the thing is, those cleaners look very similar to many sold here today. In fact, most cleaners here now look very like another. To that end, I have long considered that our vacuum cleaners are all rolling off the same productions lines under different names.

The only time I was aware of a Zelmer presence in the UK was when the Rotel and Spinney names were prevalent. I've not seen it's kind since the mid 1990's. Rotel is a company in it's own right and a good deal of stores used to stock very inexpensive Zelmer cleaners with the Rotel name.

Spinney was a name which Littlewoods utilized on many, many products made exclusively for their chain of stores, presumably the name was taken from their HQ which was known as "Spinney House". One of the manufacturers which Littlewoods patronized was Zelmer, and the supplied a range of vacuum cleaners in typically either brown & beige or red & white. But Zelmer were not the only suppliers by any means; Goblin made cleaners for them for a short time, as did a few other lesser known companies.


Post# 245325 , Reply# 2   8/12/2013 at 06:25 (3,881 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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Thanks for this information Benny!

Post# 245330 , Reply# 3   8/12/2013 at 07:25 (3,881 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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I've never heard of the vac but I did a dealer lookup from the website and it appears that the one and only vac shop here in North Bay is also selling them.

Gary


Post# 245332 , Reply# 4   8/12/2013 at 07:37 (3,881 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        

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Zelmer vacuums were advertised in the VDTA Magazine a few years ago. I think Star for Parts was handling them. Haven't seen the name in a while though, and never saw one in person. I do have an EIO, they were sold in the USA for about six months, came from Germany, claimed to be a Miele copy. It was anything but.


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