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And here’s Part Three… There is no way our current dusting brushes are as soft as the ones made in the 1950’s. The last decently-soft brush I owned was the one that came with my Kenmore Progressive canister.

And here is part two:

I just found a really neat vintage film produced in 1955 by the Lewyt Corporation called “How to Clean Your House and Like It”!!!! It features their Big Wheel vacuum and shows how to use it in a variety of ways. Part one of three is linked here…I’ll try to post the other two links as well...

1960’s: Eureka Empress with white braided hose 1970’s: Orange Eureka Roto-Matic Power Team (I think Model 1265) 1980’s: Deluxe Eureka Express with Electronic Power Control

Thank you for the pics Kenny!

I don’t know…I’m a bit of a hypochondriac, and the thought of me inhaling microscopic silver particles from the exhaust of my vacuum scares me a bit. And maybe I should be concerned about those charcoal Hepa filters as well. All I know is that when my vacuum’s exhaust air begins to smell of...

Hi Paul! That table is great! Kudos to you! Love the colour-coding in the first column…really helps to trigger an image of the vacuum in the reader’s mind!

There is also a connection between Iona Canada and Dyson in the early 1990’s. I think Iona bought the Canadian Switson vacuum factory in Welland, Ontario (near Niagara Falls) and then bought the rights to create a bagless Dyson cyclonic vacuum for introduction to the Canadian market. I think...

At some point in the 1980’s, Canadian Regina products changed names to Iona. There seems to be some connection to Smith-Corona Marchant because our SCM Procter Silex kitchen appliances also became Iona appliances. It all seems to have been a result of the Free Trade Agreement between Canada...

That is a gorgeous Eureka Rugulator upright with the original Queen Anne Gold brocade bag! Hopefully someone can restore it to its original condition!

The three versions of Eureka’s Mighty Mite compact canisters each takes a different style of bag. They are not interchangeable. The first version came out in 1983, the second version came out more than ten years later in the mid 1990s, and the third version - which continues to be sold today...

Actually, in the 1950’s, Eureka’s little Roto-Matic tub vac had clips on which you could store three attachments. I think they marketed the feature as “Attach-o-Matic Tools”! The larger Super Rotomatic tub vac came with an optional tool holder “skirt” that slid on top of the canister to store...

The very first Eureka canister vacuum with on-board tools was the Eureka Prince in 1962. In 1963, Eureka debuted it’s square Princess cleaner with a pull out tool tray that stored under the cover of the canister.

and finally, another webpage from Doug Smith’s fabulous website. This page shows a miscellaneous listing of 120-volt German-made vacuums sold in North America. One of the unique vacuums is a Beaumark canister made by Progress married to a Eureka power nozzle circa 1980. See link below…...

And here’s a recent Vacuumland thread about a Beaumark stick vac made by Progress. https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREADM.cgi?44893

Correction: The Progress vac sold by Electrolux in Canada (through Eureka) was actually sold at the Hudson Bay department stores under the store brand Beaumark….probably in the early 1980’s.

See the link below for a webpage created by a German vacuum fan which shows a historical list of the models created by the company. https://staubsauger-progress.de/html/progress_bodenstaubsauger.html

Sounds like this was a small American branch of the larger German company Progress. Kind of like how Sweden’s Electrolux set up an American factory after that horrible disaster at sea when a ship bringing hundreds of Electrolux vacuums to the USA went down at sea. The German Progress vacuum...

Indeed…I really think the huge array of cleaners created and sold by Eureka Williams was one of the reasons Electrolux of Sweden targeted the company for takeover in 1974. It’s also one of the reasons EW commercials had that faced paced concluding montage with the confident voice-over saying...

These pics with the corresponding model numbers are great! Thank you!!!