Recent content by sfovacman

Thanks for sharing this Swingette, Thanks for sharing the ebay listing and picture of the 1914 Cadillac. I have several Cadillacs in my collection of vintage vacuums, but my oldest is from about 1935. The oldest electric vacuum cleaner I have in my collection, however, is a Franz Premier...

Son of 1950's Airway salesman stunned Charlie, the son of an Airway salesman who sold Airways in the 1950's in Amarillo, Texas, was stunned yesterday when I told him Airway had shut down. My friend's mother assisted her husband in selling Airways door to door. My friend remembers an instance of...

Yesterday a local antique store that sometimes finds old vacuums for me had a Lakeside pneumatic vacuum cleaner on the shelf; so I bought it. It's missing the handle and hose. The name plate says these machines were made in Chicago and Kansas City. I've seen a Regina device from about the turn...

You're one of my favorite ebay sellers Hi, Richard. I regularly get e-mail announcements from your online vacuum store. I'm also a member of the Yahoo group Kirby Club USA. Best wishes. Jim Kirby

Corrections Two corrections to my previous post: 1. Don O'Connor is in Youngstown, not Toledo. He also has a user car lot and collects vintage Oldsmobiles. His vac store is called O'Connor's. His father was a Eureka dealer in the 1930's. 2. I believe the year was 1999, not 2000, for the...

Had a Kirby tour before 2000 convention Club members who wished to toured the Kirby factory before the last convention in North Canton, OH, which, I believe, was in 2000. The Kirby tour was on Wednesday, the day before the convention began. Some of us then drove over to Toledo to visit Club...

After reading posts about "The Kirby Story," I came across this and thought it might be interesting to many of us: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/vacleaner.htm

The history of the vacuum cleaner from 1860 to the present is presented at http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/vacleaner.htm After reading posts about "The Kirby Story," I came across the above and thought it might be interesting to many of us.

Kirby story Although I don't have the booklet "The Kirby Story," I do have much of this information. In 1975 I bought a Kirby Classic Omega after reading Lowell Thomas's booklet giving the story of Jim Kirby and Scott-Fetzer. Several years ago I assembled quite a bit of information, including...

Congrats on a beautiful 505 Chad, you did a marvelous job on the 505. One of the first vacuums I got when I started collecting in the summer of 1997 was a 505. Got it a vacuum store in Topeka, KS, that closed a year or two later. Jim Kirby, Emporia, KS

Thanks for sharing Thanks for sharing all of the pages of this manual and for the effort you put in to do this. I have two Airway uprights, one of them the one pictured in the manual and the other with a black bag and gold "Air-Way" on it, but have never seen an owner's manual before. Jim...

Believe I can get poster for you Through Topeka Vacuum, Topeka, KS, an authorized Kirby service center, I believe I can get a poster with the model history and picture of Sentria on it. I have a poster with just the Sentria on it I got from them. The poster I have advertises the new Sentria...

Windtunnel located A lady and her son who clean on weekends had put the Windtunnel and a bucket and mop in a closet inside the office men's restroom housing the furnace and hot water heater. She felt one of our office staff, who cleans twice during the week, was abusing the Windtunnel. So she...

Your reply couldn't be more appropriate! Since it is self propelled, you may have solved the mystery! Thanks for providing this good humor. Jim Kirby

I'm speechless Tom, I'm not often speechless; but I was after seeing the pictures of your 800 that was first off the production line! With many others of us, I'll be anxious to see the finished product. Ad multos annos! Jim Kirby