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hello vacuum fellows, I have a 1940s montgomery wards torpedo vac with all the attachments and the garantee,booklet ect. it is the model that has a cardboard body that is covered with leatherette. it is in good condition and I wondered if anyone was interested in it. I want 100.00 for it plus...

thanks to Tom Gasko for answering my thread on the great names of the 1950s vacuums. I am currently very into eureka rotomatics and their counter parts. Tom mentions a model called the air-o-matic. does anyone have a pic of it that I could see? thanks Bill

Can anyone tell me the other names of vintage vacuum cleaners from the 50s and older that used the names like airway,and airmaster ect.. there was an ad in a thread back aways with a drawing of a pretty lady in a buffont gown and stilettos cleaning a floor with a scrubber by the brand airmaster...

I think the thing I have always loved about the 1950s appliances of all kinds was the attempt of the manufacturers to make the consumers feel like they were royalty in their ease of life due to the quality of the machines they were using. I have always loved the greens and blues and of course...

as a man who has had tattoos for most of his life,when I am into something I naturally want a tattoo of it. I am especially crazy about the old eureka flying E! I have just spent 2 weeks 3 drawing tablets and 2 felt tip pens perfecting the flying E logo for a future tattoo. are there any of you...

hello vaclanders,there are a couple of small handheld dustbusterish eureka machines on ebay.they could be from the 60s maybe. they have the flying e on the handle which I really like of course. does anyone know about them and when they were made? one is only 9.99 I was thinking about getting it...

here are the pics of my newly acquired canister machines including my premier machine the wizard "imperial" thanks Bill

kenkart I read that you have some wizard canisters.do you have the model that would be the equivalent of the 800 rotomatics from the 50s? I would love to see your wizard collection,please post pics of the wizards. thanks Bill

Kenkart, I would love to see the wizard machines that you have in your royal family of canisters. I have a wizard imperial I just purchased. I hope to have pics of it on by sat.am. thanks Bill

ever since I was a kid I have been interested in canister machines of all types. when I was young in the 70s my Dad worked at a wood-working plant in town. I always loved to look at the dust collectors on the sides and top of the building. if you think of it,they are very large canister...

My wizard Imperial just arrived on Tuesday. I have to say it is really gorgeous! wizard really had eureka build a tank of a machine! it is truly worthy of its royal name. thanks to Tom for generously selling it too me out of his collection. currently it is my premier machine and will be for the...

I am a eureka collector. or should I say I recently became one. I have acquired 4 in the past month. 1 is of the 800 series without the wheels and the other 3 are all 900s of varying colors and style. One has the flying E under the rotomatic logo. I was reading a thread on the history of the...

One of my friends is really into pinterest. One day I was looking on there at the vintage vacuums and I saw this unique wood grain tank machine called a starmaster. It looked too be made of bakolite. It was really attractive looking indeed. if anyone knows about it I would be interested to know...

I have acquired 5 different canister vacs for my collection in the last month.3 rotomatics,an Electrolux lx and a pristine wizard imperial that is on the way! I am so lucky also because this morning my wife was telling me I could display some in the living room! yes she is a relic from the past...

western auto in town we did have a western auto in my town until 1996. I believe the man who started it opened it in the late 40s. He is still around,but retired. I said in the previous thread that there must be a few wizards left somewhere in the hills of my town because at one time you could...