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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!!!

Hi Paul, I get the sense that there was one person at Eureka’s headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois that was in charge of selling Eureka’s designs and blueprints to other appliance manufacturers around the world. The guy in charge must have travelled a lot as this was well before the internet...

Found it: in Australia a modified Eureka RotoMatic was sold as the “Pye Rotovac”….

Later on in its history, Eureka vacuums were sold in other countries under other brandnames and sometimes even made locally: In the UK, the MobilAire canister was sold under the Parnell name. And much more recently…in the 2000’s….some Eureka and Sanitaire uprights were sold under the...

The 2042 was really the “Grand Prize Winner” of the upright ratings in Consumer Reports in 1973. It was listed as a “Best Buy” for offering high value for the price. Eureka’s 2082 came second I think just because it was more expensive due to the extra features like the Rugulator and CordAway...

Besides the RCA Whirlpool canister vac, another amazing 1950’s cleaner is the “tuna can” round Sunbeam vacuum with the world’s first air-driven turbo nozzle. Those in the “know” say it had a huge suction fan that created lots of airflow to drive the carpet nozzle.

Definitely think of getting an RCA Whirlpool canister with the first power nozzle. I think there was Sears Kenmore version as well. Not sure how well they performed, but this model represents a giant leap forward in the evolution of canister cleaners….way back in the 1950’s.

Thanks Paul! It’s interesting that though the joint venture in Danville started in 1990, it would be a few years before you would see “Made in USA” Panasonic vacs coming out of that factory. Until that time, Panasonic Jet Flo uprights would be shipped over from Japan, and Kenmore uprights...

Thanks Paul! Somehow I mistakenly thought the Hoover passed on the “bag first” patent to Matsushita/Panasonic in the early 1970’s. This was a decade too early. So in the 1980’s we saw Panasonic Jet Flo uprights in stores, while Sears Kenmore was still getting their uprights from Singer and...

I remember several versions of a joke that referred to “a child looking more like the neighbourhood milk man or post man than his father”!!!!! 🤣

Okay…I will defer to the Panasonic experts….1991 it is. :-)

Really? That late? Wish we could see a newspaper ad for this model to pin this down…