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when did they leave this ball game? |
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Post# 286823 , Reply# 1   7/1/2014 at 21:16 (3,558 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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1: Westinghouse left vacuums sometime in the 1960s.
2: G-E pulled out of vacuums in 1973, and sold there molds and vacuum-everything to Premier.
3: The Singer line of vacuums was bought-out by Bissell in the late 1990s. Just like G-E, Bissell began to produce the same machine with their name on it.
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Post# 286827 , Reply# 2   7/1/2014 at 21:20 (3,558 days old) by vacuumssuck213 ()   |   | |
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Just what I was looking for shame we live in a society where everything is a dulled down copycat |
Post# 286828 , Reply# 3   7/1/2014 at 21:34 (3,558 days old) by kirbyrama (Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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And how about Sunbeam? When did they get out of vacuum cleaners? |
Post# 286846 , Reply# 4   7/2/2014 at 00:37 (3,558 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 286851 , Reply# 5   7/2/2014 at 00:56 (3,558 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Post# 286856 , Reply# 6   7/2/2014 at 01:18 (3,558 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 287853 , Reply# 7   7/8/2014 at 23:18 (3,551 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 287859 , Reply# 8   7/9/2014 at 00:56 (3,551 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Post# 287870 , Reply# 9   7/9/2014 at 02:16 (3,551 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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I have to rewrite everything now, on a tablet! All my text randomly deleted!!!
Regina packed up in the 1980s, when it was purchased for $38 million dollars. It was then sold to Phillips in 1995, and sold to Oreck in 1997. Oreck made the Regina steamer as their own. Oreck then sold Regina to Royal, which ended up being acquired by TTI. The Regina name was then put on the Dirt Devil Breeze vacuums, bagged and bagless. The Regina variations were made in black plastic!
Samsung is still around, you can find their new (and UGLY!) Motion Sync vacuum at Best Buy (I wonder if Wards has it in their catalog?).
Sanyo left in the early 2000s. They were best known for the Tranaformax stick vac, which ranked VERY highly in Consumer Reports. They also made the Kenmore 'Let's Clean!' Canister in the 1980s.
Sharp also left in the early 2000s. They made good vacuums, compared best to Panasonic. They were well known for the Twin Energy and Library Quiet upright!
Airway, the company of so many innovations, ceased manufacturing the then-current Signature series in 2008. The rising cost of steel and aluminum made American manufacturing too expensive.fun fact: the DeLorean's stainless steel body was made in Ireland due to costs!
I've never heard of Oasis!
Fantom filed for bankruptcy in October 2001. James Dyson decided not to renew the licensing of his Dual-Cyclonic technology when Fantom told Dyson they refused to use his new MEMA filtering technology. This sent Fantom in a downward spiral.they released the Wildcat, and it failed. Fantom stopped honoring warranty claims, and went broke. The name sold to Euro Pro. Some 'commercial' and some not-so-'commercial' vacuums under the Fantom name in China.
Whirlpool stopped with vacuums in the late 1980s to early 1990s. They had been Kenmore's right-hand man for their vacuums for so many years. They sold many Kenmore machines under their own name since the 1960s. I think Macy's carried them in the 1980s!
Bison folded around 1984. They had a BAD reputation. The legend goes that the distributor would lock all the salesmen in a room, then preach extensively to them. He would conclude with '....and I had better not hear of my machines being sold to black people or in trailer parks!'. Combined with the faults in their machines, they went down in vacuum history. Their last model was the Centurion II.
Westinghouse ended with their take on the Eureka Bravo in the 1990s. I know of ONE collector here that has one fully intact, another has just the base. Now, WHITE-Westinghouse made their last debut on the infamous Westinghouse Unplugged vacuum of 2001!
That completes our trip to the vacuum history database, feel free to take a bobble-head Electrolux on your way out! |
Post# 287871 , Reply# 10   7/9/2014 at 02:21 (3,551 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 287900 , Reply# 12   7/9/2014 at 10:36 (3,550 days old) by Dustin (Jackson, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 287915 , Reply# 14   7/9/2014 at 11:52 (3,550 days old) by marks_here (_._)   |   | |
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Post# 287989 , Reply# 18   7/9/2014 at 17:48 (3,550 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)   |   | |
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You totally forgot about Lewyt when you made that list of vacuum companies that are gone.
Lewyt went bankrupt in the early 1960's, & bought out by SCM Corporation, which eventually put Lewyt out of business in the early 1990's. Then, around 1998 if I remember correctly, SMC Corporation, a producer of ceiling fans, bought the rights to the name & for a few years sold a line of cheap Chinese canisters & uprights. I think they finally shut things down around 2001 or 2002. Their vacuums were so cheap that when they took them to vac shop distribution companies, like Buckeye, they turned them down! Super-Sweeper....Sanyo didn't leave in the early 2000's, they were bought out by Panasonic in 2009. Up to that point, they were still making vacuums under their own brand name, as well as rebadging vacuums for Euro Pro & Hoover. Even to this day, there are still a couple of Sanyo designs floating around with the Panasonic name on them. Dustin....yes you are right, those WalMart GE's were made by Eureka. BUT important to note, however, that the upright designs were NOT shared by Eureka. The GE uprights were totally separate designs. The only other name they ever got was the Volta name, which was sold in Canadian Tire here in Canada. The only design Eureka vacuums ever shared with GE was their powerhead canister, & even then they did not get a quick-release PN neck or direct-connect plastic wands, just stainless steel wands. As for the robot vacuums....in my opinion, they are NOT vacuums. They are merely robotic motorized carpet sweepers, which explains why they only surface clean. It will take another 20 years before they ever truly get to the point they could replace or clean as well as normal canister & upright vacuums, if they ever do get to that level. The fact that Dyson had a prototype of a full size robot vacuum that actually looked like a downscaled normal vacuum, & they didn't put it into production, tells me that it will probably never come to fruition. One thing I am wondering....about Premier....when exactly did they separate from General Electric?? I know I read that Premier bought the GE designs in 1973, but I always thought that GE owned Premier & the Premier line was the lower cost line. And does anyone have any pics or information on the Sony vacuums? Now that definitely has me curious! Rob |
Post# 288034 , Reply# 19   7/10/2014 at 07:14 (3,549 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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The story behind the appearance of White-Westinghouse vacs in the late 1980's is quite interesting:
In 1975, White Consolidated Industries - a large maker of major appliances (no relation to Electrolux USA's parent Consolidated Foods) bought Westinghouse's major appliance division. White Consolidated Industries (WCI) then created a brand name of major appliances called "White-Westinghouse." Then in 1986, Sweden's Electrolux gobbled up White Consolidated Industries and added White-Westinghouse to the list of brand names they owned for use in the North American market. For the full history of WCI, click the link at the bottom of my post. For some reason, Electrolux decided it was best to place their Eureka vacuum division under the new WCI umbrella. For about 15 years after that, Eureka vacuum cleaners were actually being produced by a company called White Consolidated Industries....probably right up until Electrolux bought back the rights to use their name in North America in 2007. If any of you have old stock Eureka dust bags from the 1990's, look at the copyright at the bottom of the package: it should say WCI, or White Consolidated Industries. I think all the World Vac boxes were labelled with that corporate copyright as well. The result of this corporate takeover was the sudden appearance of a line of Eureka vacs branded with the name White-Westinghouse. I distinctly remember seeing cool cream- coloured Eureka Bravo uprights labelled White-Westinghouse in a department store in Florida. I think the line also included a WW Mighty Mite as well. This was also the period in Eureka's history that saw the strange appearance of a line of Eureka vacs branded the "Christian Klingour" line or some such Swedish name. They looked similar to the WW vac line, but had a unique "fashion designer" look to them and sported cool cream and hunter green colour combinations. I probably have the designer's name wrong....but it should be close to Christian Klingour.... The later appearance of the old Westinghouse logo on vacs such as the Unplugged Cordless vac has nothing to do with WCI. This is a case of misleading logo identity. Sorry to sound like a grumpy old man, but these days when I see appliances labelled with an old brand logo like GE or Sunbeam or Lewyt or Westinghouse, I know it has nothing to do with the corporate giants of the 1960's. Some small company has most likely bought the rights to use the name and graphic logo to fool the consumer into thinking they are getting the real thing when they are not. Can't stand it when my mom sees a Sunbeam product advertised and exclaims: "oh....Sunbeam is a good name!" Once we are on the subject...can someone ask Panasonic to revive Sanyo's Transformax Stick Vac? CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK |
Post# 288143 , Reply# 20   7/10/2014 at 21:54 (3,549 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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I mostly saw the White-Westinghouse vacuums and other household appliances and electronics at Kmart. However, I bought a White-Westinghouse revolving brush hand vac at Bud's Outlet (a Walmart outlet store at the time) back in the late 90s. I don't know who made it, it was white with a black cloth bag. There was a rubber cap at the front that gave access to the belt/motor pulley. I should have kept it, probably would have made a good vacuum to clean car mats/carpets. But I never used it so sold it in a yard sale, though it wasn't a bad vacuum.
Those GE labeled Eureka vacuums were sold by Walmart as they had an exclusive right to use the GE name on small appliances until recently. They would relablel items from different manufacturers so they could market a full line of housewares. |
Post# 288154 , Reply# 21   7/10/2014 at 23:55 (3,549 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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