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Thread Number: 39649
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
westinghouse vacuum style 498240 update |
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| Post# 420670 2/26/2020 at 15:36 (1,521 days old) by Hutch4187 (Waseca) | ||
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Well I decided to polish up the Westinghouse and get it running runs fine Motors Nice & Smooth bags in great shape still can't find any info on it maybe with it looking better someone can recognize what year it is. | ||
| Post# 420674 , Reply# 1 2/26/2020 at 15:39 (1,521 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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| Post# 420687 , Reply# 2 2/26/2020 at 18:57 (1,521 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 420690 , Reply# 3 2/26/2020 at 20:07 (1,520 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Actually, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse owned competing electric companies. Nikola Tesla worked first for Edison, then for Westinghouse. Edison and Tesla had a falling out over Edison's staunch insistence on a DC electrical system while Tesla correctly saw AC as the wave of the future, a vision that Westinghouse shared.
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| Post# 420692 , Reply# 4 2/26/2020 at 20:48 (1,520 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Exactly
I remember the movie with Robert Downey Jr in it. I remember quite a few documentaries and biographies on tesla.
I do wonder if his idea of a big power source powering everything in range theory. It's basically wifi but electricity. I wanted to be an electrician before a plumber. I seen your you tube videos your a mechanic. Your more than mechanically inclined it's safe to say. Westinghouse had a few patten's but tesla was the mind. Edison basically sabotaged westinghouse and westinghouse. He bought up shares or something similar. They kept westinghouse name but westinghouse founder got screwed. Les | ||
| Post# 420755 , Reply# 5 2/27/2020 at 21:39 (1,519 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
"Tesla correctly saw AC as the wave of the future"
I see what you did there :3 There's another movie called 'The Current War' which is finally (somewhat) released after having been shelved for years because of Weinstein's bs. Very good film. Westinghouse was a very interesting man. Invented air brakes for trains, built affordable housing for his workers. When he couldn't invent something, he bought somebody else's patent, and made it work. There's lots of history of the company available, but probably not much in the way of info on the range of small appliances they made. | ||
| Post# 420844 , Reply# 6 3/1/2020 at 00:10 (1,517 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 420845 , Reply# 7 3/1/2020 at 00:12 (1,517 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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I also always liked how they ran the lower cord coming from the vacuum motor through the handle to reduce wiring clutter. they did that on their later models too, the upper handle actually plugged into the lower half of the handle coming from the vacuum with a standard plug and socket setup - way ahead of their time. We didn't see that again until powerhead vacuums came out in the late 2010's.
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| Post# 420868 , Reply# 8 3/1/2020 at 12:16 (1,517 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211) | ||
Based on an ad I saw on eBay, this cleaner was made about 1931. There was also a revolving brush model offered at the time. I wish more info was available on the history of Westinghouse cleaners. I used to have a Crusader upright in rough shape from about 1938 that had a cord reel built into the handle.
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| Post# 420881 , Reply# 9 3/1/2020 at 16:34 (1,517 days old) by Phaeton (Los Angeles ) | ||
Westinghouse or Regina
Interesting, one could ask if the Westinghouse resembles the early Regina or could one ask if the Regina resembles the Westinghouse. The three machines with red cords may be newer than the one in the first three pictures.
It looks like only the nozzles are different. | ||
| Post# 420897 , Reply# 10 3/1/2020 at 22:47 (1,516 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 420903 , Reply# 11 3/2/2020 at 00:08 (1,516 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
Westinghouse!
I also have a Westinghouse, but it's a later model with a revolving brush. It's a model F1-46, built in the late 40's or early 50's. Runs great and has good suction with the attachments, but the brushroll is shot, hardly a bristle left on it. Kind of resembles a Hoover 28 in a way, and is also quite similar to the GE's and Premiers of that era.
I never noticed the similarities between the early Westinghouse and the Regina until Phaeton pointed it out, but he's right, about the only difference is the nozzle. But that's understandable, since Westinghouse built the motors for Regina, or at least the earlier models. Here are pics of my Westinghouse F1-46, Regina model 39, and Regina 59. Enjoy! Jeff | ||
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