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She dumped it for something else...... Hey Phillip, Well she was good at that. Dumping things AND on people. But I digress. Her reasoning to me, when I complained LOUDLY that the Rainbow was gone was : "I just got tired of messing with it". So the same reason many people get with them after...

In the early summer of 1984, my dads then new lady-friend Pat, purchased a BRAND SPANKING NEWWWW!!!, Rainbow D3. Aside from being nearly 8 year's old, one remembers this transaction in GREAT detail. The only thing I couldn't remember clearly was WHEN this happened, nor what she paid. And...

Hi, One wanted to share a recent gift of a machine had, had, and hoped someday to re-obtain. Received a phone call from a long time collector, and friend a few weeks back. "Hey! I have something here, that I think you'd want! Are you Interested??". Uh... YES PLEASE!! So without a lot of...

They are nice....Except... The machines pictured are Robert Seeger's (moderator and owner of automaticwasher.org and vacuumland.org) Westinghouse Laundromat set from 1955. Hopefully the machines actually being offered are even half as nice. Chad

I love to see what the vacuum looks like.. Gabriel, The pic that has been supplied, is essentially the vacuum that became the Premier Upright vacuum cleaner line in the early 1970's. G.E. Introduced this new upright cleaner, with various models available, around 1962, some sources say 1963...

Carl Meyerhoffer, the brain of "Lewyt Electro-ni-cuter&# In a previous thread about the Lewyt Electronic, there was a post, from Aeoliandave (sp), containing the legal patent papers he had found, and posted up then. These "papers" are what was filed with the U.S. Patent offices by Carl, thru...

And the correct clarifications are now had... Tom, I knew you'd chime in with what I didn't know, or had wrong!! :-) Glad as always that Rainbow with the early Whirrleeypool head went to you, to be displayed where all can enjoy it. No thanks required, but you are welcome!! It's safe now...

So even though this unit says Rexair on the model tag... I think Tom Gasko could answer this better than I, but I learning much from him over the years, about Rexiar-Rainbow, and keeping the info in my brain.. will take a stab at it. Get your coffee, soda/pop or mug of Ovaltine. This will be a...

To answer some Miele Questions... One is going to wade in the fray here. Our company retails Miele, along with Tacony, TTI and Sebo products, and Dyson AND Shark re-manufactured. I really find that maybe hearing something about the Miele from an expert of 24 years now, who sells these things...

What a fun thread to participate in.... I rarely respond, but this one made me giggle, as it's been an issue I've dealt with for two solid decades now. Being in the vacuum business, one can tell you safely, that the average vacuum owning person doesn't give a frog's fat pahtootie how one...

I am curious, as to what there is left to discover about.... Do not post here much, so take what one is about to say, as you will...BUT.. Could it possibly be that larger FACTORY service centers were doing this work LONGER than the actual factory was ??? For example, Mrs Brown and her lovely...

but might guess Apex. You are absolutely correct in your guess. What is proven by catalog research, is that... Apex did make this hand vacuum for Wards, and pretty much ALL of their offered vacuum cleaners until the early 1950's. Apex remained for a time their major supplier of canister...

And this LEWYT ELECTRONIC 111's prize package is worth?? $640.00.. Wow. Truthfully, knowing how nutty one can become with ones pocketbook, for a rare piece of tenderloin like this; one is shocked it stopped there honestly. That said.. This is IMHO a wonderful (working) machine for whomever...

An addendum to the above... IN the article of the newspaper, it clearly states in the text that at that point, 1947; Apex had been in Sandusky for 11 years. That would have made the plant part of Apex in 1936, not 1946 as I wrote, and could no longer change!! So it's possible, unless other...

I get bored easily... So today while searching around for bits of Apex vacuum info online, I decided to type in Apex vacuum factory. And to my wonder...a few images popped up, including some earlier images of the previous company, The Holland-Reiger Manufacturing Company, of Sandusky Ohio...

The INFAMOUS Hoover Ad.. I found this ad UN Surprisingly in a very will known racist area of Michigan, a little place called Howell/Cohochtah which used to be the home of a grand Wizard or what the eff ever of a terrible org.called the KKK. Some toothless, single IQ, octogenarian had this ad...

Most of these I've seen have a box top. Kenny, The model that you have showed us came actually two ways from the factory. At the VERY tail end of production, they were packaged with the bag style that you see below in the pic I have provided. I have it on VERY good word from former dealer(s)...

But how many of those young people will stay within colle... Kevin, Have no appropriate, or definitive answer to that. I have free-time right now, so a tome was written below. Will those in the future who will stay collecting, still collect the "older things"?? Ones personal thought is that...

One must look past the rubbish to see the treasure.... Todd, I would also like to add, that as one who has been part of most (if not all) internet vacuum forums, since I became "online" way back in 1997-98, am quite aware of the many travails, and different situations that have commenced over...

Kirby Dist. Experience... I have to second Tom here. Fully. I wont re-speak all that he wrote, because the nail was hit DIRECTLY on the head. Vacuum shops, and distributors of new product rarely care about something that is now 6 decades old. It's just not even remotely on their radar. It's...