Thread Number: 38221  /  Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Any New Hoover Model O Discoveries?
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Post# 406906   3/19/2019 at 00:34 (1,858 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)        

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When I first found this website I remember loving to read all about Hoover history, and the original Spangler model sounds like the absolute rarest. I know Hoover has (had?) one in North Canton, myvacsrock has one, and a former member posted in this thread of a non-Hoover label Spangler.

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It looks like there's one in the National Museum of American History.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_va....

So are there only 4 known left to exist? I haven't read about it for years, but maybe I missed something. Any new "barn finds"?


Post# 406986 , Reply# 1   3/20/2019 at 14:29 (1,856 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
I've seen at least 6

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of them. They are "out there". There certainly is a "finite number" of them.
I've also seen 2 "Spanglers". I also discovered, a few years ago, that I am related to the famed "Murray Spangler". Wow, huh?


Post# 406995 , Reply# 2   3/20/2019 at 20:13 (1,856 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)        

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John, that is a amazing discovery! I guess you can say your love of Hoover products is LITERALLY in your genes :-)

Rob


Post# 407023 , Reply# 3   3/21/2019 at 14:58 (1,855 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Yes, indeed!

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As a little boy, I met this Grace Spangler...................always heard about her. She was my grandmother's maid of honor at her Wedding. Turns out, Grace Spangler was a blood relative,, a cousin. "Rolla Spangler" was related, came from OHIO. After some digging, it all made sense.
But, THAT knowledge AND $1.50 will get you a Coke in a cheap machine!
Still, nice to know..........................


Post# 407029 , Reply# 4   3/21/2019 at 22:14 (1,855 days old) by KirbyCollector (Columbus Ohio USA)        

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Boy would I love to have one of those!!

Post# 407057 , Reply# 5   3/22/2019 at 16:48 (1,854 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        
Still my coolest discovery to this day!

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Post# 407065 , Reply# 6   3/22/2019 at 22:05 (1,854 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)        
Kyle

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Your Hoover Model O is easily one of the most prized, sought after machines any collector into the early machines would ever want. Cherish it, remember you have something VERY SPECIAL on your hands there.

Rob


Post# 407074 , Reply# 7   3/23/2019 at 00:15 (1,854 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)        

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I do believe you own the only one outside of a museum that people can actually use and touch and interact with. Very cool!

Does anyone know how many of these were actually sold? It must have not been very many for them to be so rare today.


Post# 407088 , Reply# 8   3/23/2019 at 10:55 (1,854 days old) by Myvacsrock (USA)        
Thanks, Rob!

It is definitely a great piece of history. It has been in my possession now for just about 13 years. Crazy to think that much time has passed. I got it when I was about 11 or 12, and I didn’t do much with it for the first year. Once it got into the much more capable hands of Tom Anderson, and Joe out in Buffalo (who was visiting at the time) it was given some love and sprang to life!

I’m not currently with the machine, as I am out in Manhattan, but it is tucked away for safe keeping!


Post# 407615 , Reply# 9   4/4/2019 at 16:46 (1,841 days old) by ElectricUtopia (England)        

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Even here in the UK there are a couple in museums! I think due to the significance of it being the very *first*, a number have survived - possibly more than examples of subsequent from the early 1910s.


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