Thread Number: 27116
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Hoover Conquest 507 Cylinder Cleaner UK |
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Post# 303495 , Reply# 1   10/28/2014 at 10:26 (3,439 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Post# 303497 , Reply# 2   10/28/2014 at 10:30 (3,439 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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The attached link shows lots of pictures of the Hoover 507 Conquest models
Al CLICK HERE TO GO TO vacbear58's LINK |
Post# 303546 , Reply# 5   10/28/2014 at 18:28 (3,439 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 303591 , Reply# 6   10/29/2014 at 03:32 (3,438 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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You are doing a great job there James, please keep us posted on your progress.
With all the bitching that goes on about modern day cleaners people tend to forget just how comparatively expensive they were back in the day. £39 was not out of the way for the time though for this market segment as both the Lux 100 and Goblin 701 would have been similar price and others like Nilfisk (at the time reasonably rare but they were available) slightly more expensive. Now you will need to find a blue serge elephant :) Al |
Post# 303595 , Reply# 7   10/29/2014 at 03:52 (3,438 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Post# 303708 , Reply# 9   10/30/2014 at 04:58 (3,437 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Post# 303750 , Reply# 10   10/30/2014 at 15:28 (3,437 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 304319 , Reply# 11   11/3/2014 at 02:59 (3,433 days old) by supermaticjames ()   |   | |
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Finally I've finished restoring the Conquest. You wouldn't think it was damaged at all! Very happy boy indeed! James. |
Post# 304324 , Reply# 12   11/3/2014 at 05:33 (3,433 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England)   |   | |
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Post# 304425 , Reply# 14   11/3/2014 at 13:57 (3,433 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 304553 , Reply# 15   11/4/2014 at 02:29 (3,432 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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Post# 305039 , Reply# 17   11/6/2014 at 11:51 (3,430 days old) by edgar (Belgium)   |   | |
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Nice job.
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Post# 305248 , Reply# 18   11/7/2014 at 16:26 (3,429 days old) by anthony (leeds uk)   |   | |
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bought one of these in 1970 i seem to remember it being quite expensive [around 40 pounds]it lasted well into the 90s .the first thing to go was the handle my dad replaced the handle with a bit of an old leather belt crudely bolting it on from side to side rather like the handle on an electrolux .then there were numerous splits in the hose that finaly being replaced with the hose from some other cleaner next the cord rewind stopped working dad simply bypassed it [maybe thats why yours is missing].neverthe less it was a great machine the motor finally packed up and it was disposed of .the odd thing is the cleaners box survived longer than the machine itself i found it years later when the house was being sold tucked away in the loft full of 1970s curtains rather like the ones in vacbears brochure
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