Thread Number: 43494  /  Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Apex Model 58
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Post# 454230   6/30/2022 at 05:20 (666 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)        

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This Apex model 58 has recently been listed on UK ebay? Can anyone give me any information about it - no i am not the seller. Is it suction power only or does it have a driven brush bar?

Thank you

Al


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Post# 454314 , Reply# 1   7/1/2022 at 15:47 (664 days old) by watsonw (Newport, Shropshire, UK)        
APEX 58

Hello Al, This looks identical to a model made by GEC in Witton, BIRMINGHAM. I have seen and examined the GEC version at the science museum store at Hayes Middlesex during the last 1980's. This model dates from the late 1920s/ early 30s and was the senior size of machine with three sets of ball race bearings. The clever feature of this model; apex or gec was that the tools could be fitted by flipping the cover (behind the name plate/beltb chamber cover) around with no need to disengage the drive belt. The brush roller was simply a longer version of the type fitted to the gec models DM180 (junior model) and the streamlined DM380 which I think appeared post war?

Regards, Walter.


Post# 454318 , Reply# 2   7/1/2022 at 17:58 (664 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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Those were made here too, under the names Apex and Majestic. High end ones had the tool port and low end ones did not. Some of the later ones had a large click switch, such as on a Witch Way. The badges here tended to be painted and polished brass, that engraved badge looks awesome!

Post# 454432 , Reply# 3   7/5/2022 at 04:26 (661 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)        


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Thank you for the information


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