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1959's The New Look in Vacuum Cleaners |
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Post# 294746   8/21/2014 at 07:22 (3,508 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Hi everyone, this morning's blog post on Product Stat is a great review of 1959 vacuum cleaners. While I'm sure some will disagree with their findings, it sure makes for an interesting read...
Click here to read it: The New Look in Vacuum Cleaners I have 100's of more articles to add to the Product Stat Blog and I will be trying to add new articles daily to the site for a while. If there is an article you like and you are a Facebook user, please click the like button at the bottom of the article. Clicking the like button on any article you enjoy will help me greatly in determining what types of articles everyone likes so I can try to post more on that type of subject matter on the blog. Thanks everyone! |
Post# 294752 , Reply# 1   8/21/2014 at 09:04 (3,508 days old) by DesertTortoise ()   |   | |
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Look at the prices! |
Post# 294758 , Reply# 2   8/21/2014 at 09:54 (3,507 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 294759 , Reply# 3   8/21/2014 at 09:56 (3,507 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 294760 , Reply# 4   8/21/2014 at 10:06 (3,507 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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It would be great to see more of these older consumer reports or other testing information from the 40's, 50's etc.
Thanks Bud, I have plenty more Vacuum related things to post. I plan on trying to do a vacuum cleaner related post at least once a week. Please do check the new Product Stat website often for updates on all kinds of products. |
Post# 294850 , Reply# 5   8/21/2014 at 22:06 (3,507 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 294852 , Reply# 6   8/21/2014 at 22:25 (3,507 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 294858 , Reply# 7   8/21/2014 at 23:13 (3,507 days old) by DesertTortoise ()   |   | |
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Can't wait to read the reviews of the 1971 and 1983 vacuums. |
Post# 294879 , Reply# 8   8/22/2014 at 04:13 (3,507 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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SICK I didnt get to live back then when just about everything built was 1 quality, 2 interesting and innovative and 3 made right here!..Not China! |
Post# 294979 , Reply# 10   8/22/2014 at 15:46 (3,506 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Interesting that the Electrolux Automatic F was listed at $99.75 - which was it's price without the optional $19 cord winder - yet the machine is pictured WITH the cord rewinder.
Vacuums in the past clogged up really fast. The old one-ply bags were terrible at filtration. The Air-Way, Filter Queen, and Rainbow were about the only machines that were really good at filtration, and the Rainbow never clogged or lost suction (no matter what James Dyson would say). Sad that they never mentioned the Hoover blowing dust out of the rug, filling the air in the room. Anyone who used a Constellation for more than a moment knows this. |
Post# 295055 , Reply# 14   8/22/2014 at 22:01 (3,506 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)   |   | |
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Do you have anything on Shampooer Polishers and household floor Buffers? I remember my mom buffing our hard wood floors as a child in the dinning room.and waxing was a chore back then with paste wax.not like todays liquid waxes.and a sponge mop. |
Post# 295062 , Reply# 15   8/22/2014 at 23:19 (3,506 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 295075 , Reply# 16   8/23/2014 at 00:43 (3,506 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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In my book a Compact was one of the best cleaners, for the above reasons...simplicity!!!! A well enginered machine . |
Post# 295165 , Reply# 19   8/23/2014 at 15:28 (3,505 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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Ill take fins and pushbuttons ANYDAY. |
Post# 295173 , Reply# 20   8/23/2014 at 15:53 (3,505 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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but, they were beautiful! Classic American designs. American pride. Some were driving up Main Street today in a parade. You can't NOT just look at them and think: "wow".
I'll soon post pics of what "I" think are HOOVER'S finest vacuums. I truly bwelieve they were HOOVER'S finest hour. Some of you might agree. of course, 'my genration' (like I went to school with Jesus!) could purchase vacuums that would last. Actually, it was my parents' generation. I found an old phone (landline) that had "Olympia-4" on the dial. Yes, it is a DIAL. Thankfully, 'Mummy' didn't have to wash the laundry down at the river. We had a Westinghouse (yes, I'm SURE it was a Westinghouse! Did y'all get that??? If not, perhaps you're just a mere child. It plugged into the WALL.... we had electricity all the way back ... in 1958.... when thyey bought the house (then only 80+ yrs old)... with The Oldmobile 88 in the driveway. In 1961, the HOOVER 67 made its way into the house. STILL running. |
Post# 295257 , Reply# 23   8/24/2014 at 02:15 (3,505 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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~ @smow69, do you recall what brand and model floor polisher your mom had? My mom had an Electrolux E-Automatic vacuum cleaner with the polisher attachment when I was a little boy. She used Johnson Wax Beautiflor liquid polish with it. I've always loved the unique scent of that particular wax because it "takes me back to days of yore." I am just about as crazy as floor polishers as I am vacuum cleaners, and I have plenty of them! My two favorites are the first-version Electrolux air-powered scrubber & polisher, and the RP & HP series of Johnson-Wax electric floor polishers. Love 'em love 'em love em!! First some Electrolux polishers, then in an update to the thread some Johnson polishers. |
Post# 295260 , Reply# 24   8/24/2014 at 02:31 (3,505 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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~ Some Johnson-Wax polishers... The eight B/W images are prototypes made by Brooks Stevens, the designer of the fabulous Modern-Hygiene tank vacuum cleaner. While I haven't ever run across any definite proof, these prototypes leads me to believe that he was the designer for the RP and HP series polishers. I also have quite a few other "miscellaneous" polishers that I can post photos of if anyone's interested. |
Post# 295390 , Reply# 27   8/25/2014 at 17:42 (3,503 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 295451 , Reply# 28   8/26/2014 at 03:39 (3,503 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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Just have to ask-have you run all of those polishing heads at once-bet that would be neat-Really like the polished chrome one-BEAUTIFUL!!!It would require a huge air supply to run them at once!!!Glad to be back to vacuums instead of cars! |
Post# 295540 , Reply# 34   8/26/2014 at 19:30 (3,502 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 295544 , Reply# 35   8/26/2014 at 19:54 (3,502 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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Those two four barrel AFBs on Ram Induction sucking premium leaded Sunoco 260 gas!!To H$%^ with the EPA! |
Post# 295563 , Reply# 38   8/27/2014 at 01:09 (3,502 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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But a BMW rides and steers like a wagon, Ill take good old American luxury from the 60s anyday. |
Post# 295565 , Reply# 39   8/27/2014 at 01:35 (3,502 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 295566 , Reply# 40   8/27/2014 at 01:42 (3,502 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)   |   | |
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Was this about 1959 vacuum cleaners or something-its now a car forum! |
Post# 295612 , Reply# 43   8/27/2014 at 09:32 (3,501 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Consumer Reports tested the Compact C-4 the previous year (1958). They did not like it - mostly due to the outrageous price ($229) and sales method. There were many times CR did NOT get it right. History has proven that. In Dec. 1936, the Hoover model 150 was the LOWEST rated 'acceptable' vacuum cleaner. The Air-Way Super Chief (twin motor) was rated "not acceptable". In 1938, the Rexair model A was rated "not acceptable" due to the 'probability of shock hazard'. I've never known anyone who was shocked by their Rexair (except, they WERE shocked at the dirt it picked up). In 1947, they DID get it 'right' - naming the Air-Way Sanitizor model 55 the top canister vacuum, followed by the Lewyt model 40. In 1971, they absolutely got it 'right' with the top rated vacuum being the beautiful Electrolux 1205 with pistol grip electric hose and telescopic wand, and PN-1. This was followed by the second highest rated cleaner, the Electrolux model L with the same hose, wand, and nozzle set up.
Today, Consumer Reports does NOT get it right most of the time. That's due to the fact that they don't test the cleaners long enough, don't take them apart to report on design flaws, and don't give durability enough credit. Why must they (year after year) give that horrible Kenmore Intuition canister the top spot? |
Post# 295758 , Reply# 45   8/27/2014 at 20:31 (3,501 days old) by Gr8DaneDad ()   |   | |
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I could not agree with you more regarding the ineptitude of CR. If I want to know what to scratch off my short list first I check to see if CR has recommended any of them.... |
Post# 295763 , Reply# 47   8/27/2014 at 21:46 (3,501 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 295765 , Reply# 48   8/27/2014 at 22:01 (3,501 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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I guess you could get a shock if you turned it over while off then turned it on...but the stupid things people do still never cease to amaze me! LOL |
Post# 295807 , Reply# 49   8/28/2014 at 09:59 (3,500 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)   |   | |
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-has also said in more recent years that the SE Rainbow had no way to store cord.And that the Eureka Brave would be a great vac.(Ask anyone who repaired vacs at that time if they got that right!) |
Post# 295812 , Reply# 50   8/28/2014 at 10:18 (3,500 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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Post# 319085 , Reply# 51   3/22/2015 at 22:16 (3,294 days old) by mjm0424 (Chicago suburbs)   |   | |
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I think that the Plymouth Valiant/Duster was one of the BEST cars ever made! They were reliable,good on gas-if you bought the slant/6. Always started,even in the coldest weather.They were easy to repair,even if you had to have a mechanic do it,the repairs were relatively cheap. The Valiant model was especially popular with older women;Avocado green,& Tawny gold were the favorites! The Duster even came in a high performance model,& was also popular. The only bad thing about the cars-the body rusted out long before the engine died,even if you had it Ziebarted.I remember fixing my 1973 Duster-with the snakeskin top. Many nights were spent in my friend Kenny's garage,bondoing it,& fixing the rotting underrcarrige with sheet metal.
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