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P.A. Geier Company 2025 also marks the 120th Anniversary of the founding of the P.A. Geier Company in Cleveland, OH by Phillip A. Geier in 1905, although he didn't start building vacuum cleaners until 5 years later. He first began as a job order machine shop and foundry, making mostly parts for...

Huskyvacs, Yes, I was thinking of steel wool too or rubbing compound for the tank. The attachments came with the upright, and I originally wanted them to complete the set of another upright I already had of the same model (2-230), but I ended up with the vac as well. The 2-230 that I already...

Hi John! Glad to see you back here again, it's been a long time! Hope to hear from you more often! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well! Your old Royal friend, Jeff

Straight Suction Upright Here's the type of straight suction upright that Ben was referring to in his original question. It is a model 2-230 Electro-Hygiene, the last straight suction Electro-Hygiene model that was made in 1953 and 54 and replaced the previous model 230 which was made from 1945...

Royal Canister That is a beautiful canister indeed! However, they weren't actually made by Royal but built FOR Royal by Kingston from 1945 to 1987. There were several different model numbers including 201, 231, 565, and 975 and besides the Royal name itself, were made as Regal, Electro-Hygiene...

Westinghouse Great work Garry, looks like it turned out pretty good! I have the previous model, the SC-1. not much difference between the two, other than the exhaust cap and mine has 4 wheels where yours has 3. I also have a white replacement hose with mine. Ken Wagman gave me a nice turquoise...

Thank You! Thank you, Barry, Les, and Guy for your compliments! It was indeed a thrill to be able to cross 2 machines off my wish list in 3 months' time--the Custom King (Silver King) in July, and now the 210A Electro-Hygiene tank! As for more pictures, I am hoping to eventually start taking...

Here's Mine Westinghouse H-10 Hand Vac. Quite similar to yours except that the housing is shaped differently and it has a different belt cover plate. Think mine might be a bit newer than yours but I'm not sure. Although the bag on mine is beige with red printing, I have also seen them with...

For the second time in 3 months I have been able to cross a vacuum off my wish list! This time it's an Electro-Hygiene tank, model 210A. This one was on my list because the 210, 210A, and 2-210 were (to my knowledge) the only Electro-Hygiene tank models made before WWII. Tom Stepien had offered...

Royal/Electro-Hygiene Attachments Yes, the attachment set for your Stark would have been gray, but I'm thinking dark gray, as that's the color of the set we got with my wife's 886 Royal which we bought brand new on 2/7/1994. The Royal was $349.95, and the attachment set # 305 was $59.95, and by...

Liam, Apparently you got it, because your response was pretty much the same thing that I was trying to tell you. That's good! I just wasn't sure if you understood that when I saw your earlier post asking about worth, value, and price. Glad we're on the same page there! Jeff

Hoover 300 This is the first time I've ever seen the Regina model M that you have pictured, but I have to admit that it DOES look quite a bit like Liam's Imperial. The only Regina upright models I had seen before were the "duckbill platypus" design like mine, or the Brush-N-Beat models they put...

Nice Find Liam! Saw the video and you have a nice collection! Your Imperial looks and sounds good! However, I don't think your Imperial was private labeled by Regina, as I have 2 of them in my collection (a model 39 and a model 59) and it really doesn't resemble either one of them. It is...

Amazing! So they actually did build an upright! I'm assuming they didn't make them very long, as I've never seen one in person and have only once seen a picture of one. My Custom King has the flo-thru motor and what I'm assuming to be their "standard" size pan, or at least, the size I'm most...

Thank You Thank you, Paul, Les, and Tom, for your replies. Paul, I had forgotten about uspto.gov, and after seeing your post I went to the sight and looked up Silver King and Silver Knight as well. Found out the Silver King name was first used on 9/22/1947, and the company name was originally...

Is still a Silver King! It's always great when you can cross a machine off of your want list, and my good friend Ken Wagman recently helped me to cross one off of mine! He gave me a Custom King model AE, which is essentially a Silver King with a slightly different name. It included all the...

My Other Collections I worked in the Printing Industry for the biggest part of my career, and it was a trade that I enjoyed so much that I pursued it as a hobby as well as a vocation. I printed a lot of gag cards over the years as well as some work for other people including cards, letterheads...

Parents And Grandparents' Vacuum Cleaners When I was a kid, my parents had a model XXX Electrolux for their main vacuum, and a Kenmore model 116.730 for the basement and cleaning out cars. When I was selling Electro-Hygiene during my senior year in high school, I traded them both in for a model...

Love American Style Used to watch that show all the time but somehow don't remember this episode. Thanks for sharing it! Jeff

My model 66 Air-Way Sanitizor is now complete with the addition of an Attacha-Kit which I recently purchased on ebay. It's taken a while to get everything I needed for my 66, beginning with the hose, wands, floor brush, and polisher pad that came with it, then adding a rug nozzle, Whirl-a-Way...