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Lonnie is doing just fine <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">He and my next-door neighbor, Helen Highwater, were recently spotted sharing a root-beer float ... they were probably wishing it was one of Charmaine’s!</span>

My favorite Hoover ... <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">... would have to be the Convertible.  I have a 69, a 70, a 1070, a 1076, a U4059, a Bicentennial U4085, and a few others.  Love them all!</span>   <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Bill W.</span>

About YouTube Videos ... <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">John, if ever the opportunity presents itself for me to find myself in your neck of the woods, and we don’t have to deal with this danged pandemic anymore, I would be glad to help you make some YouTube videos.  I have a...

Adore your pictures, John! One question, though. Do you still have that Hoover electric razor from the UK that I brought you once? Bill W.

Electrolux Excellio Super Silence Z5045

Electrolux UK PowerSystem Z1720

Eureka ESP 2090A

Hoover Bicentennial Custom Convertible

Hitachi CV-785DC

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Hoover Convertible Deluxe 1070

My name is not Paul ... ... it’s Bill. I do realize tthat you are in the UK. Also, I had a very busy day today and didn’t get the time to look for it. Will try again later today. However, if this is any guide I routinely have items shipped to me from over there (from Dover, Kent CT17 9NZ to...

Derek, I once had a Z345 that I bought from eBay UK: sadly, it succumbed to water damage in my basement a few years ago. I might still have the hose for it, however. I will look later today and will let you know. Bill W.

This much I know ... The Preco nozzle and others like it use a toothed belt. While I don’t know what modern-day belt would work, I’d willingly bet that if you take the nozzle and the remnants of the broken belt to the nearest vac shop, they could certainly fit a belt to it. Bill W.

Universal Universal made a variety of vacuums during their time in business. They were responsible for the popular “Jet 99” canister and its “sister”, the Atlas ElDorado: they also had an upright that I could swear was the basis of the “Anser” upright as well as at least one or two other...