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Thread Number: 44471
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka Chron-O-Matic Timeline — 1909-1999 |
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| Post# 462684 4/28/2023 at 14:24 (369 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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| Post# 462688 , Reply# 2 4/28/2023 at 15:04 (369 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
Wow! Very nice!!
A couple small things; the model 10 as far as I know did not have a polishing brushroll. That seems like something that would come along in the 30s or 40s? And the Special was the budget option to the Standard, reusing a lot of the same castings as the model 9. The motor was the same as the Standard #2, with the caster. Otherwise it is about the same size as the 11. Would you happen to have a pic of the golden 1 millionth Eureka? I have the pin but did not know they did a full size commemorative vacuum. | ||
| Post# 462691 , Reply# 3 4/28/2023 at 15:22 (369 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 462692 , Reply# 4 4/28/2023 at 15:26 (369 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 462730 , Reply# 6 4/29/2023 at 15:19 (368 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
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| Post# 462745 , Reply# 7 4/30/2023 at 05:51 (367 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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When I look at this very long list of Eurekas, it’s no wonder their TV commercials used to say: “Eureka makes the very best in vacuum cleaners - and more kinds of vacuum cleaners than anyone else in the world.”
And this extensive list does not even include all those other models made by Eureka for other companies and retailers around the world: USA: Montgomery Ward, JCPenney, Kmart, Western Auto (Wizard) Canada: Timothy Eaton Company (Viking), Hudson Bay (Baycrest, Beaumark) Mexico: Koblenz UK: Parnall France: Singer Argentina: Yemel Europe: Electrolux | ||
| Post# 462746 , Reply# 8 4/30/2023 at 05:55 (367 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 470917 , Reply# 10 4/26/2024 at 12:49 by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thanks for this great organized layout of Eureka history!
Here’s a question for which I don’t have an answer: how much time passed after the introduction of the Rugulator before Eureka debuted the Dial-a-Nap feature? I really don’t think they came out at the same time. There must have been at least a one year gap between the debuts of each of them - even though the model numbers seemed to overlap a bit…. | ||
| Post# 470941 , Reply# 13 4/27/2024 at 20:50 by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thanks for your posts Paul. So it would appear that the Rugulator and Dial-a-Nap models arrived on the scene at the same time. I guess the designers came up with a less expensive way to provide “front end” wheel adjustment for the less deluxe models of upright. It’s probably cheaper to punch a single screw hole into the top of motor hood than it is to cut out a long rectangular slot.
When you look at how wide-spread the sliding scale Rugulator design is, even to the present day, it makes me wonder if Eureka was the very first vac company to come up with this concept. As much as I love the old company and its vacuums, Eureka was never known to really innovate: they always seemed to be copying a feature (sometimes making it better) from Hoover or any of their other competitors. Any thoughts? Was Eureka the first to offer a front end sliding knob to adjust the height of the “working end” of an upright in 1969? | ||
| Post# 470993 , Reply# 16 4/30/2024 at 21:40 by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thanks for this Paul! Love the peaceful, gentle tone of that 1968 Vanguard tv commercial. That was the era in which Eureka really presented a calm, confident message to consumers - the products were solid and beautiful and the company did not need to yell at you to buy the cleaner. Even the rapid-fire parade of models at the end had a certain confidence about it…ending with “That’s Eureka.”
Would love to see someone find a “New in Box” beige 1968 Vanguard! Now that would be a find! | ||
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