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Post# 355186   7/2/2016 at 13:14 (2,848 days old) by jmurray01 (Scotland)        

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Picked this up tonight for £10. It is the same as my bagged Boss only the handle-release catch is still intact! I haven't tested it yet, but am told it was in perfect working order.

As expected it is dirty, and I will strip it down and restore tomorrow, but for tonight thought I'd start a thread and post a "before" picture.

Not sure what I'll do with this one, as I detest bagless machines and refuse to have one in the house unless it is for the purpose of fixing and selling for a profit (like my regular stream of Dysons), but it is quite a rare model these days, and is the sister model to my other Boss so it would be nice to have a pair.

We'll see!

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And with its sibling...


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Post# 355191 , Reply# 1   7/2/2016 at 15:45 (2,848 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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These were made by Electrolux's Eureka division at the Eureka factory in Bloomington, Illinois. We knew this bag-first design as the Eureka Victory. The bagless version was called the Victory Whirlwind. From about the early 1990's methinks.

"The Boss" was a brandname used to designate a basic, no-frills model in many Eureka line-ups. There was a Boss model in the following line-ups, among others: Superbroom stick vac, Dial-a-Nap upright, Rally canister, World Vac canister, Quick-Up cordless stick vac, Excalibur upright, Mighty Mite II and Mighty Mite III canisters, Self-Propelled Upright, Bravo and Bravo II upright, SmartVac upright.


Post# 355199 , Reply# 2   7/2/2016 at 17:34 (2,848 days old) by AlexHoovers94 (Manchester UK)        

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We know, lol.

Post# 355250 , Reply# 3   7/3/2016 at 07:48 (2,847 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan)        
those must

have been the last ones out of Bloomington. I didn't know they made a plastic upright. I though El Paso Tx. made them. What about the Victory models?
Alex, there is a telephone photo of Hyacinth from keeping up appearances on automaticwasher.org on the thread in Super about her appliances.
It looks exactly like a Western Electric AT&T slimline phone. Did BT have a lookalike?


Post# 355253 , Reply# 4   7/3/2016 at 08:38 (2,847 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)        

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Bloomington's Eureka plant had been making plastic uprights since the Ultra in 1983. But parent company AB Electrolux did not close that plant until about 1999 if I remember correctly. That's when they moved all vac assembly to a new plant in Juarez, Mexico - across from El Paso.

Post# 355261 , Reply# 5   7/3/2016 at 11:43 (2,847 days old) by AlexHoovers94 (Manchester UK)        
Vacreator, I replied on the washer site...

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I replied, it is actually a BT Minstrel slimline, it is much more advanced than a Western Electric trimline phone...We had one in the kitchen a number of years ago, great phones.

The BT Minstrel has last number redial, electronic ringer, volume control for the ringer and handset, touch tone and you can store numbers in it's memory.

The BT Minstrel Plus slimline had an LCD display, Hyacinth didn't have the plus version! shame on her! lol.

Here is the regular BT Minstrel Slimline, Hyacinth had that model as did we in our kitchen, ours was wall mounted of course...The curly cord stretched out so long on it! lol, they always did on those type phones though.



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