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Thread Number: 32877
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Very Old Kirby. Model C? |
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| Post# 359799 , Reply# 1 9/23/2016 at 17:11 (2,770 days old) by CharlesKirby66 (Manteca, CA) | ||
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Post# 359800 , Reply# 2 9/23/2016 at 17:52 (2,770 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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 ~ Yes, that's definitely a Model C, with the optional headlight. I can tell that even with the crummy photos! (Sorry...)
Here are photos of my identical Model C with headlight, awaiting restoration, and then one photo of a Model C without headlight that I restored a few years ago. (I had the wrong belt cover on it at that time; it was the only one I had. I have since replaced it with the correct one.) | ||
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Post# 359815 , Reply# 4 9/23/2016 at 23:58 (2,769 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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| Post# 359826 , Reply# 5 9/24/2016 at 09:24 (2,769 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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Post# 359828 , Reply# 6 9/24/2016 at 10:22 (2,769 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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~ @KirbyClassicIII - That's a new one on me. I've always thought there was just a Model C, which later in the run was optionally equipped with a headlight and a new Bakelite belt cap. Then came the 2C, 3C and 4C. I have never seen a serial number plate for a Model C with the designation 1C nor any such designation in any Kirby or other company literature. Obviously this is no big deal; I'm just puzzled as to how you came up with it. | ||
| Post# 359830 , Reply# 7 9/24/2016 at 10:40 (2,769 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 359833 , Reply# 8 9/24/2016 at 14:03 (2,769 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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This is my Kirby C
The serial number plate just has C an the serial number, there is no 1 in front of the C
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Post# 359848 , Reply# 10 9/24/2016 at 17:48 (2,769 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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Post# 359851 , Reply# 11 9/24/2016 at 18:47 (2,769 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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~ Well that's fine Ben, but you stated above "We Kirby fans refer to the later model C with the headlight and the Bakelite belt cover as the 1C..." as if that's a generally accepted model identification; however, other than your statement here to that effect I've never run across such a distinction anywhere else.
Somewhere in my archives I have a little approx. 3" x 5" brochure that shows the Model C without a headlight on the cover, and then inside across the 6" x 5" space all the features and accessories are listed and displayed. Across the bottom is a notation "Straight Air Floor Cleaning Nozzle and Floodlight Available as Optional Extra Equipment." On the back cover is the usual Kirby Company information with space for a dealer's stamp.
So it could have been that the "floodlight" was originally offered as an optional accessory and then made a part of the standard equipment set. Either way, the model number was never changed to 1C by the Kirby Company. Neither of my two Model Cs have a numeral before the serial number the way Models 2C, 3C and 4C do.
Not that it r-e-e-a-l-l-y matters one way or another; it's just that I'd prefer not have one person speaking for "we Kirby fans" as a whole.
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