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Post# 88705   1/11/2010 at 10:42 (5,210 days old) by rickenbacker ()   |   | |
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Oldest vacuum cleaner in Britain! lol, ever tried looking on ebay? ... CLICK HERE TO GO TO rickenbacker's LINK |
Post# 88706 , Reply# 1   1/11/2010 at 11:06 (5,210 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London)   |   | |
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BOLLO*KS Well we must be a bit slack on any REAL news in the UK at the moment, in my loft I have 4 Juniors this age or older. Mind you it does prompt me to ask who actually DOES have the oldest, working electrically powered cleaner in the UK - at least amongst us lot. My candidate would be my Lux Model V although I am sure others have older than that - did anybody ever get an age for that old wooden Goblin that was ebay last year? Al |
Post# 88708 , Reply# 2   1/11/2010 at 11:37 (5,210 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire)   |   | |
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Post# 88709 , Reply# 3   1/11/2010 at 11:48 (5,210 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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The whole story's a Dyson PR-piece....LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL |
Post# 88716 , Reply# 5   1/11/2010 at 13:03 (5,210 days old) by electroluxxxx (……)   |   | |
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I gotta say that reading this, it is kinda hard not to laugh hehe :P |
Post# 88717 , Reply# 6   1/11/2010 at 13:09 (5,210 days old) by joe22 ()   |   | |
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slow news day |
Post# 88724 , Reply# 7   1/11/2010 at 14:21 (5,210 days old) by vintagehoover ()   |   | |
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Well, I'll leave the Dyson/Hoover experts to it... :) |
Post# 88737 , Reply# 8   1/11/2010 at 17:45 (5,210 days old) by rolls_rapide (-)   |   | |
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And the paper is just as bad for not doing its homework. |
Post# 88740 , Reply# 9   1/11/2010 at 17:56 (5,210 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)   |   | |
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Post# 88788 , Reply# 10   1/12/2010 at 16:13 (5,209 days old) by hooverbaby (Dalton in Furness, UK)   |   | |
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I actually saw this article; a work colleague showed it to me a few weeks ago and I felt much the same way about it i.e how can a Hoover 119 be Britain's oldest electric cleaner. In response to Al's message about the wooden Goblin I'm wondering if he's referring to the BVC electric, which consisted of a little wooden box, containing motor and hose inlet, transfer etc. This looked to be in really good nick and I actually bid about £500 on it but I was outbid by two other people. It went to a collector in Poland IIRC, along with two hand operated machines, which he also won, including a Little Wizard and a BVC. They went for £100 each and appeared to be in similarly good condition. I believe that the BVC dated from about 1904, since there's a photo of one in a book of mine showing that date...though it could be wrong. I have a couple of Hoover Baby machines dating from about 1916 but I'm wondering if my brass Trojan cylinder vacuum is an older machine? Stephen |
Post# 88819 , Reply# 11   1/13/2010 at 09:10 (5,208 days old) by edgar (Belgium)   |   | |
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Post# 89016 , Reply# 12   1/16/2010 at 07:30 (5,205 days old) by watsonw (Newport, Shropshire, UK)   |   | |
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...........ah yes, a friend has this model also; around 1910 ? |
Post# 90080 , Reply# 13   1/26/2010 at 15:08 (5,195 days old) by hooverbaby (Dalton in Furness, UK)   |   | |
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As far as I know, the Goblin name didn't exist until the 1920's. Strictly speaking, it was BVC or British Vacuum Cleaner Company - am I correct? I've noticed that the BVC name is still around today. Does anyone know if it continues to have links with the Goblin name?..or are we talking about a different company? Stephen |