Thread Number: 23408
Article: The First Tandem Air, by Tom Gasko |
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Post# 262018   1/5/2014 at 23:40 (3,735 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California)   |   | |
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Post# 262027 , Reply# 1   1/6/2014 at 03:29 (3,735 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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One of Milwaukee Air Way distributor Don Clarks inventions, but the first one used a Hamilton Beach upright as the power nozzle, this was first introduced in the mid 60s. |
Post# 262228 , Reply# 3   1/7/2014 at 09:29 (3,733 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Don Clark didn't 'invent' anything. Eureka was using this set up in the late 1960's - early 1970's as a power nozzle for their commercial canisters. Don Clark saw one, and asked Air-Way to obtain them and sell them to him exclusively with the 88 Mark II models. Air-Way had already done this with the Hamilton Beach upright, but it didn't pick up very well. The Eureka set up was much better. Once Eureka started making actual power nozzles in 1973, Air-Way built their own too, the RugMasteR. The Eureka upright vac as power nozzle could still be ordered by big distributors, like Don Clark, or the Air-Way built RugMasteR could be ordered instead. Once the cleaner went 'black and white' instead of turquoise or yellow, the Eureka built nozzle went away. There were two colors of the Eureka upright-as-power-nozzle. Yellow or Turquoise.
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Post# 262304 , Reply# 4   1/7/2014 at 16:52 (3,733 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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An article published in the VCCC newsletter years ago by Tania and Don Clark, if I can find it I will publish it. |
Post# 262397 , Reply# 5   1/8/2014 at 09:32 (3,732 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)   |   | |
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All good information but Tom is right that this was Eurekas first PN. If anyone noticed I just sold one on EBay with Eureka label and blue Eureka colors.I have seen a dealer sheet showing it on the type H bag canister. |