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  1. J

    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    I almost forgot! But the corner house used to have a green Hoover Purepower U3330 which they gave me but I dont know what they have now though.
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    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    And my other neighbour has these two
  3. J

    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    Hoover Turned into this!
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    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    My other neighbour Then for one of my neighbours this...
  5. J

    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    In order pictures of my closest neighbours machines I put the Turbopower Junior again at the end because she is back to that now.
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    Vacuums on your street in past vs now

    Interesting topic My neighbours have had quite a few over the years, and I know really well what models they had because when they bought a new one I always took the old one! I am really close to lots of my neighbours aswell so I have been inside their houses quite a lot, more than an average...
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    Electrolux

    Hi, I posted something similar to this a few months back but I never got a straight answer so Im just going to ask again on the off chance that someone sees this who knows what happened. Electrolux in the UK were a very popular vacuum cleaner brand, they sold affordable decent machines, the...
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    What was the first available Kirby Cleaner in the UK?

    Damn it! What a shame! I would of loved to have owned both the dual sanitronic cleaners but I guess I never will now! I know I could still technically own them and buy a step down transformer and all the rest of it but its too impractical. Nevermind. So your saying anything that came before the...
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    What was the first available Kirby Cleaner in the UK?

    Just a quick question as I have really got into my Kirbys lately and I would like to know Just out of interest. What was the first Kirby model available in the UK? I know you guys in the USA have had them since the early 1900s but over here in the UK not so much. The first cleaners that are...
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    What make/model is this?

    Keeping up appearances Yes I noticed that about daisey and onslows to. Earlier on in the series they have a Hoover junior upright which would be a lot better suited to their home with it being carpeted, but later on when Rose says she is going to 'tidy up' she brings down an Electrolux cylinder...
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    What make/model is this?

    Its a Goblin Housemaid! Since I found out its a goblin I had a bit more to go on so I started looking around where it might be from. It turns out to be a goblin Housemaid from 1978. A year or two later it was replaced by a hard bag version shown in the ad above. Being a 1978 model, by the time...
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    What make/model is this?

    Goblin Yes it must be a goblin as the cleaner head is the exact same with the headlight and everything. Liz in the photograph must have the soft bag version of that cleaner. Caught my eye that the goblin advertisement said they invented the very first vacuum cleaner, half the people on here...
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    What make/model is this?

    I saw this vacuum cleaner on a very popular UK TV show, keeping up appearances. Its actually my favourite comedy of all time and it was very popular over here in the UK when it came out in the early 90s. I think it ran from about 1991-1995. I was watching an episose last night when I saw Liz...
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    What kinds of LED bulbs can I use with my vintage vacs?

    Buy a filament bulb! I have seen other people do this, replacing an old incandescent bulb for an LED one for whatever reason. And my advice is dont. Because, to put it simply, it looks AWFUL! There is nothing worse than seeing a vintage vacuum where somebody has put an LED bulb in. They look...
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    Information on the Turbopower 1000/2/3 please!

    JMB Thanks Turbo500, I didnt know that. I know littlewoods is online only now and they have no highstreet shops left but I dont think they even sell anything like that now. No vacuum cleaners anyway. Think its all mainly clothes these days. When there were actual shops on the highstreet I think...
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    Will bags make a comeback?

    Bags! Thanks for the replies guys, I noticed a lot of you were saying how bags never disappeared from the UK market which your right- they didn't. What I am saying is during the 1980's nearly every machine over here took paper bags. It was only the very very very low end machines that didn't...
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    Will bags make a comeback?

    Hi all, It seems to be a bit different in America because after looking online it seems you have plenty of bagged machines available, including uprights at both budget and high end. In the UK its different and we only have 1 budget bagged upright, the Hoover Purepower/Enigma. We do have a few...
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    Information on the Turbopower 1000/2/3 please!

    Turbopower 2/3/1000 reproduction Interesting topic- bringing old models back into reproduction. But I think its safe to say the turbopower 2/3/1000 will never come back into production even if Hoover wanted to. And thats because they sold the rights to it. They sold the turbopower 2 patents and...
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    Why I think canisters aren't popular in United States anymore

    Canisters and Uprights I have always preffered uprights. I only have a few canisters in my collection and lots of them are the vax 3 in 1 multifunction machines which I love. My house is mainly carpet, hard floors are in the kitchen, bathroom and hall though. I have loads of uprights around the...
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    Electrolux UK, What Happened?

    Electrolux I thought Electrolux was still a very popular brand for vacuum cleaners in the USA didnt realise sales had stopped over your way even if it was just the name that was dropped. I still cant understand why they would stop using it. It was a good quality brand that everyone new and was...
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