As always, a beautiful machine and presentation! My aunt favored this brand and style of vacuum, it's so nice I'm afraid I would ruin it from wanting to use it all the time ❤️
The paper bag liner is a great idea, not knowing how much damage there is to your bag how about turning it inside out, cleaning it off, and maybe an iron-on patch and then the paper bag inside??
Unusual for you to post even a very nice daily driver quality machine, but so glad you did! I dearly loved my monkey ward version and I'm sure this will look like new very soon nice find!
I had one purchased very reasonable from craigslist 10 years ago. Cleaned up nicely, very powerful! Landlady fell in love with it dickering ensued, she purchased for 50 bucks and still loves it!