1972 Vac Shop's Multi-Brand Model Price List—Household & Commercial Vacs / Floor Polishers / Carpet Shampooers

[paul]

Ran across this and thought it would be of interest. It includes various brands of model IDs that had been floor models and demonstrators; discontinued models and repo's.

One has to wonder if the floor & surface care industry had a blue book of sorts to help determine such pricing or if independent stores each used their own pricing method.

 

[cheesewonton]

Ran across this and thought it would be of interest. It includes various brands of model IDs that had been floor models and demonstrators; discontinued models and repo's.

One has to wonder if the floor & surface care industry had a blue book of sorts to help determine such pricing or if independent stores each used their own pricing method.

They had a "Compact C-1" ( assume they meant a Model 1, there was no C-1 ) for sale in 1972? Wow. Those were produced during WWII for TWA and were replaced by the C-2 immediately after the end of the war. Were these used vacuums or new?

 

[paul]

They had a "Compact C-1" ( assume they meant a Model 1, there was no C-1 ) for sale in 1972? Wow. Those were produced during WWII for TWA and were replaced by the C-2 immediately after the end of the war. Were these used vacuums or new?

They were floor models and demonstrators; discontinued models and repo's.

The attached Compact/Revelation/TriStar Model Timeline indicates that there was a model C1.

 

[huskyvacs]

They had a "Compact C-1" ( assume they meant a Model 1, there was no C-1 ) for sale in 1972? Wow. Those were produced during WWII for TWA and were replaced by the C-2 immediately after the end of the war. Were these used vacuums or new?

As I understand it Compact vacuums were door to door only, unless they experimented with small retail sales. This might be a completely different Compact C1. Notice it says "including sprayer". I cannot imagine Compacts had a "sprayer", unless this was a old commercial unit that was used in airlines. If I remember right the Compact vacuums were invented solely for cleaning passenger airplane cabins.

 

[cheesewonton]

As I understand it Compact vacuums were door to door only, unless they experimented with small retail sales. This might be a completely different Compact C1. Notice it says "including sprayer". I cannot imagine Compacts had a "sprayer", unless this was a old commercial unit that was used in airlines. If I remember right the Compact vacuums were invented solely for cleaning passenger airplane cabins.

During WWII there were no home appliances being made, by law. No new cars, no new washers, dryers, refrigerators, stoves, vacuums, furniture, blenders, mixers, you name it. All the appliance manufacturers were making things for the military. Women could not buy nylons because nylon was needed for parachutes. Everything else was strictly rationed. Gasoline, tires, sugar, basic foods all rationed. I still have some of my parents ration coupons.
Howard Hughes used an aircraft company to make a vacuum for his airliners to get around the wartime suspension of civilian vacuum production ( it was an aircraft component ) but until the war was over Interstate couldn't sell vacuums to the public. I guess I am just surprised that any Model 1s were sold to the public much less as late as 1972. I thought most of them went to TWA, Howard Hughes' airline. I could see using a sprayer to spray insecticide inside airliners after the passengers were off. I have been on international fights where the flight attendants walked down the aisles spraying bug spray as they walked before securing the cabin for landing.
Some Compact and Tristar dealers had a bricks and mortar store. The vac shop in Lancaster CA sold Compacts for many years in their store after the dude who went door to door in that region retired. Same shop sold Airways too. There is at least two shops I know of in Ohio and Indiana that sell Tristars from a store, or at least once did.

 

[paul]

As I understand it Compact vacuums were door to door only, unless they experimented with small retail sales. This might be a completely different Compact C1. Notice it says "including sprayer". I cannot imagine Compacts had a "sprayer", unless this was a old commercial unit that was used in airlines. If I remember right the Compact vacuums were invented solely for cleaning passenger airplane cabins.

You're correct that the Compacts were door-to-door sales models. The Revelations were sold in stores concurrently; same design but in a different color.

Check out this archived thread. Reply #5 shows a couple pages of the 1952 manual for a C-2 that shows all the attachments including a sprayer.

https://vacuumland.org/threads/compact-by-interstate-info-requested.30726/

 

[centralsweeper63]

I was going to say about the 1972 Compact C1, gee did that throw me off.

 

[cheesewonton]

I was going to say about the 1972 Compact C1, gee did that throw me off.

By the 1970s Compact was up to around the C6 or C7.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Yeah, that's why it boggled me.

 

[huskyvacs]

You're correct that the Compacts were door-to-door sales models. The Revelations were sold in stores concurrently; same design but in a different color.

Check out this archived thread. Reply #5 shows a couple pages of the 1952 manual for a C-2 that shows all the attachments including a sprayer.

https://vacuumland.org/threads/compact-by-interstate-info-requested.30726/

Ah wow I never noticed they had different names. And I see now, one of those little glass jars. I was thinking of like some kind of huge spray gun like they use for pesticides. lol Man I think I seen one of those vacuums on Goodwill but I had no idea it was one of the first ones, wish I would have got it.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I would love to get a Pinnock Premier some day.

 

[cheesewonton]

You're correct that the Compacts were door-to-door sales models. The Revelations were sold in stores concurrently; same design but in a different color.

Check out this archived thread. Reply #5 shows a couple pages of the 1952 manual for a C-2 that shows all the attachments including a sprayer.

https://vacuumland.org/threads/compact-by-interstate-info-requested.30726/

I have a C2 in one of those boxes with all the attachments and some original disposable bags. The lid hinge on the wooden box needs a little attention but otherwise all there and it works though the motor probably needs the bearings greased.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Very cool. That manual in post 6 helped me identify a couple of nozzles to be Pinnock, thanks very much.