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Continuing this great thread into part 6... Part 1 is here Part 2 is here Part 3 is here Part 4 is here Part 5 is here

It's Vacuum Cleaner day at Product Stat again, today's blog post highlights the introduction of the Hoover Portable... http://www.productstat.com/engineering/hoovers-new-portable-vacuum-cleaner

That is just about enough DT Listen up DesertTortoise, you were told quite clearly to drop it, you are doing nothing more than trying to pick a fight here. It certainly isn't the first time you've done this and we are quite over some of your posts being marked as offensive in other threads for...

Because unnecessary bickering was going on in that thread and it was causing problems and being marked as offensive by multiple members. Under most circumstances any thread that gets heated, gets deleted. In the future when you are creating a new thread and it has to do with a question that is...

Hi Charles, I am the creator/assembler of all of this fabulous history. The answer to your question is D. all of the above :-). Please message me privately for more information on that, as I don't want to hijack this thread. The Roll-Easy pages on your website are done just beautifully, btw...

Under most circumstances I will try not to highlight the same brand two weeks in a row with my blog posts, but we just uncovered this wonderful article and wanted to share it right away. The prototype pictures are simply amazing! Please feel free to post this article on Facebook, etc. or share...

This morning's blog post on Product Stat features what I have learned is a very rare General Electric Upright Vacuum Cleaner. General Electric vacuums have always been up there as one of my favorites, at least in the styling department.

The name was bought by an online shopping company Yup, when that Wisconsin company bought the holdings of Mont. Wards, all the copyright ownership gets transferred to them. Even without that, the owners still own their copyright, it never goes away. And it's before 1964 is OK for Wards since...

Well, can we at least have a section where we can save our own technical know how and experience with particular brands I don't see why that is necessary, all repairs of the vintage vacuums appear in the Vintage Forum and more modern vacuum repair threads go in the Contemporary Forum. Making...

Hold On Speaking of copyright, there is a reason while I only have Sears sales catalogs and not the big main catalog pages on Automatic Ephemera. The big bi-annual Sears catalogs are not in the Public Domain, meaning they are still under copyright protection. Sears renewed their copyrights...

Hi Everyone, I've received quite a bit of email today concerning this Kirby manual. First of all it apparently is reportedly from 1963, not 1972 like I had originally estimated. More importantly all we have is section 1, apparently there are 10 sections total... Section 1 Motor Group...

Hi Ben, I don't believe there are any missing pages from the manual, that's why I gave the complete table of contents in the description. Nowhere in the table of contents does it say anything about attachment parts, parts lists for Dual Sanitronic 50, 80 and Classic, Rug Renovator Group, etc...

I have no idea Ben, but glad you can use it.

I seem to remember someone asking for a Kirby service manual a while back, and we recently uncovered one. I have now scanned it placed it into the Ephemera Library for anyone who wishes to have a copy. Sections include: <ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica...

The weekly Vacuum Cleaner post is up on the Product Stat blog, this time we go back to the Comprehensive 1941 review of Vacuums right before the war started... The first rule is not to let the salesman sweep you off your feet. And then make sure you really need a new cleaner before you buy. If...

Hi everyone, this week's Product Stat Blog vacuum related post is up and the pictures are beautiful, I suspect that were press release photos from 1958... The Whirlpool with it's first Power Nozzle Enjoy

It would be great to see more of these older consumer reports or other testing information from the 40's, 50's etc. Thanks Bud, I have plenty more Vacuum related things to post. I plan on trying to do a vacuum cleaner related post at least once a week. Please do check the new Product Stat...

Hi everyone, this morning's blog post on Product Stat is a great review of 1959 vacuum cleaners. While I'm sure some will disagree with their findings, it sure makes for an interesting read... Click here to read it: The New Look in Vacuum Cleaners I have 100's of more articles to add to the...

Just wanted to share this blog post with everyone, it's a great article... http://www.productstat.com/engineering/hoover-convertible-vacuum-cleaner More information on that site will be coming tomorrow.

Hi everyone, eBay had emailed me to let me know about their Vacuum Sale for our site. I realize many of us here are into the vintage stuff, me included, but I thought I would pass this along in case anyone here was in need of something modern... http://www.ebay.com/rpp/home-sales/vacuum-sale-dd