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Just discovered an Italian company named Eureka that produces ride-along industrial floor sweepers. Even the brandname and font look almost identical to the Bloomington Illinois company’s branding!!! Here is the link: https://www.eurekasweepers.com/en/our-story

Does anyone know if the airflow through the hose is worse or better on the Miele Guard L1 vs the old C3? What about the old C1 vs the new compact Guard S1? Curious as to whether the airflow is better on the old models. You really can’t beat the airflow on the old C3/S8 canisters.

Just to clarify what I meant: the Eureka with the brown bag in the first photos is a 250. The Eureka with the blue/green bag in the second set of photos is a 260 with an old 250 brandplate hose port cover instead of the newer plastic 260 hose port cover.

I really don’t think that is a Eureka 250 upright. It is definitely the newer 1960’s Super Automatic 260 with a jammed in old unmatching hose port cover from an older 250. Someone must have lost the original blue or green hose port cover and some repair shop rejigged an older cover to fit the...

Oooops! I meant to type “pn canister” not “pw canister”!!!! In those years, Consumer Reports justifiably had two separate sets of rankings for canisters - one for suction only canisters, and another for power nozzle canisters.

Ah yes. The famous Eureka 1255 Roto-Matic Power Team. The top-rated power nozzle canister in the 1974 Consumer Reports vacuum ratings. It was the top pw canister because it was a Best Buy at only $130….very good value for the money. Excellent deep carpet cleaning gave it the top score. The...

I was never a fan of canister vacuums that stored their attachments inside the dustbag compartment. No where did I ever see a warning label to remove the tools or tool tray before turning on the vacuum. Any residual dirt, lint and dust left on the bristles of the tools could easily get sucked...

I think that unusual gold Princess 737 is actually from a display at the Mid Missouri Vacuum Store and Museum. The museum is run by Vacuumland member Dysonman, I think. He would definitely know the story behind that Eureka.

It’s amazing the important role Whirlpool played in the design and development of vacuum cleaners in the US. The name should be honoured right along with the likes of Hoover, Eureka, Singer and Electrolux.

Re: Electrolux North America going retail. I remember seeing Electrolux power nozzle canisters being sold at Sears in Toronto in the 1990’s.

Here’s a great historical overview of the Progress company by a vacuum fan in Germany. I’ll never forget seeing one of those 1980’s Progress electric brooms labelled as a Eureka in one of our vacuum stores in Toronto. Here’s the website: https://www.staubsauger-progress.de

Yes - while Googling the German words “staubsauger Progress” to find images of various Progress cleaners, I came upon many websites showing the dustbags for this model. There were dustbag packages that listed all the Progress and Volta and Electrolux models that would take a single dust bag...

Eureka! I found it! This German-made Electrolux was originally made by the German Progress vacuum company….After Electrolux AB of Sweden gobbled up Progress, they started to relabel some of the Progress cleaners as Electrolux, Eureka and Sanitaire…the latter two brandnames slapped onto...

I know…I saw that…but the bags are made in Sweden….which means it’s not a regular American Eureka Bloomington design…the only European made Sanitaire canister I ever saw was a rebranded AEG canister married to an Express Power Nozzle….but I think that was made in Germany - it had two doors on...

I am trying to picture the Sanitaire S490. Does someone have a picture of the cleaner and the power nozzle? And was it an Express power nozzle?