crazy price for Health-Mor UPRIGHT Vacuum Cleaner !!

[royalsuper]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155068149432?hash=item241ac82eb8:g:BqIAAOSw63lix2uY

 

[dysonman1]

Wow

$1800 and it has the wrong bag. And Health-Mor never made it. They bought it from Royal starting in 1930. Before that, the Health-Mor was actually a Scott and Fetzer Sanitation System from 1928 - 1930.

This is what the bag should look like on an original Health-Mor.

At these prices I'm going to start selling my collection.

 

[dysonman1]

These were really sold to almost everyone in Chicago, Wisconsin, etc. as the home office was located in Chicago at the same time Al Capone was running things. You still see them in those areas.

 

[hygiene903]

Overpriced Health-Mor

I agree with Tom, if I could get that much out of my machines, I'd be putting them up for sale too! By the way Tom, your Health-Mor is absolutely beautiful and complete, especially with both of the original bags! I have one too, but no attachments and mine has a generic replacement bag that the previous owner went to the trouble and expense of having the logo embroidered on it. Here it is!
Jeff

 

[dysonman1]

Jeff

I have had the pleasure of running several of your machines in my life, and I also brag about the Apex you so kindly gave me for the Museum. You are a wealth of knowledge about vintage Royal and Electro Hygiene cleaners, as well as many others. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with both myself and this forum for many years.

 

[luxlife]

Wait and see

If the seller actually gets it. He’ll probably just take the best offer he gets, but I think he’d do better with a concealed reserve bid. This one is on my list of machines to see in person.

 

[royalsuper]

this vacuum cleaner cannot have been manufactured in 1929 ! ROYAL introduced its new Royal Purifier model to the market in 1929

photo 1 kentucky Electric Shop; exterior,1930
photo 2 the advertisement on the newspaper is dated September 11, 1929

 

[dysonman1]

Royal didn't start making Health-Mors until 1930. The two previous years, they were private labeled Scott & Fetzer Sanitation Systems.

The founder and CEO of Health-Mor (Mr. Callahan) was best friends with T. Russ Hill who was the Director of Sales for Air-Way. Mr. Hill learned how to sell the concept of Sanitation. Mr. Callahan didn't want to work for anyone so he looked around for a private label manufacturer. The Health-Mor made by Royal starting in 1930 had a moth crystal dispenser at the hose to machine coupling. The Royal cost the company less than the Scott and Fetzer so they began to sell their private labeled Royal in 1930.

Mr. Hill would go on to be President of Rexair in 1936 (talk about selling sanitation), and Health-Mor was approached by a salesman of ironed cellulose filter paper. In 1939, Health-Mor launched the Filter Queen model 200, made for them by Royal.

 

[royalsuper]

Thank you Tom for this very interesting history lesson

 

[huskyvacs]

Wow, $1,800 huh? The one I got for $60 is a bargain then. lol

 

[hygiene903]

Tom,

Thank you for the compliments, always glad to share my knowledge, especially when it will be helpful. It was indeed a pleasure meeting you and giving the Apex Rotarex to you for the Museum, knowing it would be a better home for something that rare and unusual than in my collection. And thank you for sharing your knowledge with us over the years as well! For example, most of what I know about Health-Mor/Filter Queen and Lewyt I learned from the histories of both of those makes that you posted several years ago.
Huskyvacs, I have no doubt your Health-Mor will be beautiful after you've restored it. Please keep us up on your progress. Mine was a bargain too, a collector who was downsizing and eventually quit collecting altogether gave it to me!
Jeff

 

[huskyvacs]

Thanks Jeff, I'm working on it! I got as far as getting an aftermarket Royal bag for it. It fits the output connection, and it looks really great. Will be a fine replacement for the time being. I do have the original power cord too with the ceramic plug ends, the seller forgot to ship it initially but he got it sent later on. The seller was located just outside Chicago so the fact these were limited to the Chicago area does hold true. The seller was selling all the parts individually and I got it just in time before the parts got bought and scattered all over the country, which is why it was shipped in pieces.

 

[FilterQueenEthan]

Later Royal machines used Filter Queen power nozzles, and the power team and power tank have "push button" hookups even! Did Royal build the heads or vice versa?

 

[dysonman1]

Later Royal machines used Filter Queen power nozzles, and the power team and power tank have "push button" hookups even! Did Royal build the heads or vice versa?

Health-Mor built them for Royal.

 

[FilterQueenEthan]

That makes sense! That is a partnership that went on for a long time. so they would probably be interchangeable?

 

[centralsweeper63]

Maybe, maybe not, there will probably be variations.

 

[huskyvacs]

That makes sense! That is a partnership that went on for a long time. so they would probably be interchangeable?

No way to know until you try. I've done things many times that nobody ever did before, just purely based on a guess and looking at how parts fit together from photos online, and it worked. And there has been many times where I wasted money and it didn't work. lol

 

[centralsweeper63]

It is a coin toss really!

 

[FilterQueenEthan]

No way to know until you try. I've done things many times that nobody ever did before, just purely based on a guess and looking at how parts fit together from photos online, and it worked. And there has been many times where I wasted money and it didn't work. lol

For sure! I went to Hard Knocks University and that type of engineering is what they teach! With me, it is do it myself and that money goes to yield compound interest instead of buying plastic that doesn't last. I buy something I plan to buy it one time and use it forever. It breaks, I want to buy parts and DIY the repair instead of throwing away. Equipment is an investment, no matter how large or small, and religious routine maintenance protocols keep it that way.

 

[centralsweeper63]

That is my type of people!

 

[FilterQueenEthan]

That is my type of people!

This is why I live debt free! Frugality is a lost art, and I believe a dollar saved is the same as a dollar made! I run my home like a farming operation. Investing is done before it ever comes home and the Net income is the gross profit of the house. Bills are viewed as operating costs, and what goes to savings is the profit. There are excel spreadsheets to track week to week growth. Groceries are viewed as raw materials, and my kitchen is the processing plant that converts it to 3 squares a day! Lunches are packed and haircuts are a DIY job because I want it done how I want it, don't like waiting, and figuring I get 30 a year at $25 a hit, I save a fortune! So 6 years ago I went out and bought a brand new Oster 76.

 

[cheesewonton]

For sure! I went to Hard Knocks University and that type of engineering is what they teach! With me, it is do it myself and that money goes to yield compound interest instead of buying plastic that doesn't last. I buy something I plan to buy it one time and use it forever. It breaks, I want to buy parts and DIY the repair instead of throwing away. Equipment is an investment, no matter how large or small, and religious routine maintenance protocols keep it that way.

My cars are 38 and 33 years old, and the van is ten years old. I will never sell any of them. The 38 year old car, a 1988 Audi 90 is a beautiful resto-mod that looks stock but ............. The 33 year old car will get restored when it gets a few more miles ( has almost 220,000 now). I have a 41 1/2 year old BMW motorcycle with over 300,000 miles that is an extension of my mind and body at this point. I do all my own maintenance on my bikes. Heck the techs don't know anything about the old stuff. I still use a 43 year old Kenmore Sears Best 4.1 canister vacuum that is still in great shape and will never part with. It is an old friend. Live debt free, pay cash for everything and plan on making things last.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Exactly how I want to live when I get my home!

 

[cheesewonton]

Forgot to mention I bought that BMW motorcycle new in 1984 when I was a young Ensign in the Navy. 41 1/2 years with the same motorcycle. I have owned the '88 Audi for almost 33 years. I'm the second owner. Ground the dealer on price and they thought they were going to make money on financing it. You should have seen the color drain from the sales person's face when I pulled out a checkbook to write a check for it. He went screaming for his manager sputtering "bu...bu....bu.....but you can't do that!" He was almost crying. Manager said good to go and I have had it ever since.

 

[centralsweeper63]

AMazing.

 

[cheesewonton]

AMazing.

The Audi has been lowered discreetly, has a custom made fully adjustable coil over suspension, upper stress bar, adjustable camber and caster plates on top of the struts, a huge custom four row radiator necessary for our desert heat, bored and stroked to 2.6 liters using a block from the Eurovan 2.5 liter engine, extra rear link that is diagonal across the twist beam, plus one tire and wheel combo but discreet using a stock Audi wheel and up front under those wheels are four piston Wilwood calipers with Hawk pads on cross drilled rotors. Bumpers and lights are from a European Audi 80. Looks stock Euro but you would have to be an Audi nut to notice.
So frankenvacs, resto mod cars and I've resto modded a few motorcycles, with my most recent being a K100/K1100 RT/LT thing I made from a frame with a clean title and most of the rest are used parts. It looks like an '84 or early 85 K bike but the engine is 1100 ccs with an early K100 head. Very deceiving. The list of changes on that bike would take half an hour to read so i won't bore you. it's flat black and looks about as boring as a bike can be ( I like my stuff to be low key ) but the suspension and engine are very special, stuff cooked up by a tech in Long Beach California who worked at BMW Research and built the original prototypes of the R80G/S, K100 and K75. He knows what works and what the bikes want to be really fast and reliable.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I really want to get my hands on a Volvo 140, 740 or 940 (estate model) to restore/mod. I want to fit the turbo red block from whichever generation it is. I want to get the 3rd row of seats. Four wheel drive modded too. Other than that it would just be a restoration. 1991 or newer, by the way.