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One lonesome pic of my 28, I will work on getting some better glamour shots. Bad lighting in the basement.....

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Fantastic Hoover!

Such a pity we never had it over in the UK. We had to make do with the Model 262 (Model 26 in the US?). The next model after that was the 612 (Model 60 and 61). Maybe they felt that the market, esp. after the war, wasnt big enough and couldnt support another new model.
Was there ever a Model 27?
 
Yes, there was a Model 27.....

Produced in 1945 and 1946, it was Hoover's first new "post war" model. It looked a lot like the Model 28, but different colors....
 
I have a

Hoover 27 with the original bag on it. It was a very strange color combination. The pics in the ad's shows it to be brown in color but it is really some shade of gray base and black hood on the sides with a burrelled walnut look on top. The bag actually has somewhat of a red cast to it. Also, Chris (Hoover28) told me that my Hoover 28 is an early model because the gold trim around the hood of mine is a metal strip rather than tape. They are both beautiful machines. I wish I had the original bag for my Hoover 28 like you do !!!!!! As Jeff said, it certainly is the icing on the cake. Oh how I wish I could find the old shake out bags for the early Hoovers. You have a BEAUTIFUL HOOVER 28 !!!!!
 
That is indeed a beautiful 28! The 28 will always have a special place in my heart since it was the machine that started my hobby 20 years ago. I bought it at a garage sale for $8.00, and it's been in my collection ever since. Finding one today with the celluloid light cover and the bakelite hood unscratched is somewhat of a rarity. They outsold the model 61 in about a 3:1 ratio, which is surprising, as you would think people would rather the convenience of the Handisacs. Does anyone know the price difference between the two cleaners? Also, did the 612 also offer disposable bags?
 
'...did the 612 also offer disposable bags?.

No - the first UK Hoovers to use disposable bags were the next generation of models: the Junior 1334, the De Luxe 638 (which came, at least initially, in shake-out and 'Disposall' bag options), the Constellation 822, and the Dustette 2614.
 
I have a magazine advertisement from

Christmas 1949 that listed the Model 28 at $74.95, the Model 61 at $94.95, and the Model 115 at $49.95. 95 bucks was a lot of money in 1949!
 
Thank you Scott, now I can wonder no more. $20.00 was a considerable difference in 1949. I do like the "flat top" appearance of the 61, and clearly, this was where Hoover was going with subsequent models, as the parts were similar. I believe towards the end of the production run, Hoover offered the disposable bag system as an upgrade for the 28. If the 61 was $20.00 more, I suppose the upgrade would have been maybe $5. or $10. I have a few 28's with later bojack outer bags that use disposable bags, but none that are factory original. Now, does anybody out there have a pre-war machine with the ultra-rare Hygienisac system? :-)
 
this thread is almost 9 years old

so youre not going to get an answer from any of the people in this topic (except john long he's still here)

to answer your question. no the model 28 was a dump bag not unlike a kirby or royal of the same period. airway had patents on paper bags until the early 50's.

the first hoover upright to use paper bags was the model 63, in 1954. the model 60-62 used a "handi sac" which was a re-usable paper bag, "type "W" as it was known well after those models were discontinued, but those machines arent common and bags are even harder to find for them. the model 63 was the first hoover to use the very famous "c" bag usually associated with the hoover convertible thru the late 70s
 

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