Janitronic Division of Scott & Fetzer?

How many of you are experts who know about the short-lived Janitronic subsidiary of the Scott & Fetzer Company? This name was coined in 1967 from the words "janitorial" and "Sanitronic" (a Kirby vacuum series). I wish to know more about if you folks have any vintage literature related to this brand of heavy duty commercial upright vacuum. It was more or less like the later American Lincoln Super Sweep and Super-Vac 180, but it had a removable head.

The original Janitronic cleaner (model "J" as shown on nameplate) was short-lived, because after Scott & Fetzer bought out American Lincoln in 1968, the Janitronic was renamed the Super-Sweep, of which the first such iteration, in Irish emerald green and white, first came out in early 1969.

While most examples of the Janitronic were a metallic copper in both their plastic trim pieces (same as the Kirby Dual Sanitronic 50) and most of their aluminum housing parts, I also saw one of these done up in dark brown, with the Kirby name on the belt cover. The picture below is of me at my former Kirby dealer, which was taken in 1990. That brown Janitronic is what you see in the top right corner of this picture. I wish to know more about that model, if it had a three-wire cord and other things that deviated it from the more common copper version.

~Ben

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Post# 441341 5/1/2021 at 20:46 (1,088 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)
Checkrate/Likes 1 How many of you are experts who know about the short-lived Janitronic subsidiary of the Scott & Fetzer Company? This name was coined in 1967 from the words "janitorial" and "Sanitronic" (a Kirby vacuum series). I wish to know more about if you folks have any vintage literature related to this brand of heavy duty commercial upright vacuum. It was more or less like the later American Lincoln Super Sweep and Super-Vac 180, but it had a removable head. The original Janitronic cleaner (model "J" as shown on nameplate) was short-lived, because after Scott & Fetzer bought out American Lincoln in 1968, the Janitronic was renamed the Super-Sweep, of which the first such iteration, in Irish emerald green and white, first came out in early 1969. While most examples of the Janitronic were a metallic copper in both their plastic trim pieces (same as the Kirby Dual Sanitronic 50) and most of their aluminum housing parts, I also saw one of these done up in dark brown, with the Kirby name on the belt cover. The picture below is of me at my former Kirby dealer, which was taken in 1990. That brown Janitronic is what you see in the top right corner of this picture. I wish to know more about that model, if it had a three-wire cord and other things that deviated it from the more common copper version. ~Ben View Full Size This post was last edited 05/01/2021 at 21:32