Thread Number: 32648  /  Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Elephant Getting Hoovered!
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Post# 357841   8/17/2016 at 10:12 (2,779 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I saw this on eBay. Seems the elephant really enjoyed the brush roll of a 541; I wonder if a 543 and later with the new beater-bar agitators would have been as enjoyable...!


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Post# 357844 , Reply# 1   8/17/2016 at 10:36 (2,779 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
It really made a clean sweep of those

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pesky peanut shells.
Imagine a 'quadraflex' brush roll??


Post# 357894 , Reply# 2   8/18/2016 at 08:59 (2,779 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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All I can think of is imagine how nasty this vacuum was after a few years of use lol This is way cool! Thanks for sharing

Post# 357901 , Reply# 3   8/18/2016 at 10:04 (2,778 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)        
For my elephant

I have always found it easier to use the hose / canister arrangement.


Post# 357941 , Reply# 4   8/19/2016 at 01:47 (2,778 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211)        

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What an interesting photo! It would seem as if the handle was shortened solely for this purpose. Perhaps this was an even earlier model such as 102 or 105? A 541 would've been brand new and quite expensive in 1923 when the photos was taken.

Post# 357948 , Reply# 5   8/19/2016 at 08:38 (2,778 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Hoover handle

On my screen the handle seems to extend past the users right knee almost to the chair top.
Great picture.Makes the 'vacuum your cat' videos look tame.


Post# 357959 , Reply# 6   8/19/2016 at 11:27 (2,777 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
There is a possibility...

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It's a Hoover 105. Note that the top of the bag is attached to the handle slide WITHOUT a bag spreader, which was a brand new feature of the brand new 541 (10 improvements over the 105). I blew the pic up on my iPhone, and cannot see a bag spreader.

Post# 357968 , Reply# 7   8/19/2016 at 13:29 (2,777 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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That's a 541 handle, though. You can clearly see the silver ring about 8" down from the top where the straight handle grip starts, and the metal cap on the flattened end.

 

If it was any model earlier than a 541, the handle would be rounded off with no grip, like the wooden handle of a garden shovel. AFAIK the 541 was the only Hoover to have that particular handle -- the 543 was the first to have a curved handle-end.

 

 


Post# 357978 , Reply# 8   8/19/2016 at 20:31 (2,777 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth)        

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I enlarged it on the computer screen and I think I see a height adjustment on the side of the vacuum. In the early 541 manual it shows the vacuum with a bag that has a strap in the center and doesn't have the bag spreader, but then there are other pictures that show the bag with bag spreader.

Post# 358004 , Reply# 9   8/20/2016 at 19:00 (2,776 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)        
Hoover and Elephants

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A great picture Charles, Hoover UK continued with the elephant theme in the 70`s for their new Hoover Conquest, their latest cylinder cleaner of the era featuring a new revolving air turbine brush - wheel out the Hoover Blue Serge Elephant.






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Post# 358005 , Reply# 10   8/20/2016 at 19:05 (2,776 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)        
Hoover and Elephants

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I spied my chance to re-enact that famous elephant advert when Berta came to the avenue for her yearly brush up before the Chester City Mid-Summer Parade......




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