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Thread Number: 39088
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
The Hoover Special / What did I just buy? |
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| Post# 414793 10/10/2019 at 12:25 (1,659 days old) by Paulg (my sweet home Chicago) | ||
Apologies in advance. Vacuum cleaners like these are not my cup of tea, so I know little of them. This question probably came up a thousand times before. I hope you can advise me what I just bought.
Back story.... went to an estate sale last week. Saw this vac but passed it up. ( I’m a GE- Sunbeam kind of a guy...) Coming back from shopping I see an estate sale. Same place by accident. This old vac is still there. I asked what they wanted for it. Here’s what I got for five bucks.
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| Post# 414795 , Reply# 1 10/10/2019 at 12:27 (1,659 days old) by Paulg (my sweet home Chicago) | ||
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But what does this mean?
Previous model reconstructed at the Hoover Factory?
Did I just get taken to the cleaners (excuse the pun)? Tell me what you may know about this doozy! Thanks for any info. Good or bad.
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| Post# 414796 , Reply# 2 10/10/2019 at 12:29 (1,659 days old) by Paulg (my sweet home Chicago) | ||
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Rear shot
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| Post# 414799 , Reply# 3 10/10/2019 at 13:23 (1,659 days old) by toddk13 (Milwaukee, WI) | ||
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I'd say that it started it's life as either a Hoover 105, or 541. The Hoover plate is similar in design to the original 541, but that might be what was on the shelf when they rebuilt it. | ||
| Post# 414804 , Reply# 4 10/10/2019 at 15:53 (1,658 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 414811 , Reply# 5 10/10/2019 at 17:40 (1,658 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
It looks like a 105, if it were a 541 it would have a height adjustment on the side opposite the switch. The 105 also has a hand hole underneath, the 541 has a pulley cover.
The 105 you adjust the height by loosening the thumb screw on the rear wheels then raising or lowering them. The handle is definitely a 105 handle. The 105 was 1920 - 1923, the 541 was 1923 - 1926 | ||
| Post# 414816 , Reply# 6 10/10/2019 at 19:39 (1,658 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Post# 414817 , Reply# 7 10/10/2019 at 20:20 (1,658 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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| Post# 414820 , Reply# 8 10/10/2019 at 21:46 (1,658 days old) by Bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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re: Serial numbers | ||
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Post# 414826 , Reply# 9 10/11/2019 at 08:14 (1,658 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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"Special" didn't always mean, re-manufactured | ||
| Post# 414863 , Reply# 10 10/12/2019 at 10:13 (1,657 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211) | ||
Hoover Specials
Hoover offered true rebuilt "Special" models up until the late '50's when Hoover stopped selling door to door. Here on the forum, I think the newest rebuilt Special I saw was a model 61, which if discontinued in 1949 was still a fairly new machine. I would have loved to been able to purchase a reconditioned early model like a baby 103 or a Senior model N back in the '50's.
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Post# 414899 , Reply# 11 10/13/2019 at 08:18 (1,656 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I actually have one "factory rebuild" | ||
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