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Great work Paul, Fascinating reading all this. When I was up in Scotland last month, I was able to pick up a few Commercial brochures, and the picture below was in one of them - can we say 'Innovation' here? Hope you can make out the text, I've not got a scanner. Nice to hear you two are still...

Hey Rob/Paul What a great lineup! I'd argue that Turbopowers are high-quality machines though, and are certainly closer to older models than to present-day ones. Certainly they seem to have a higher survival rate than their contemporaries, and I think of them as a direct descendant of the...

Welcome to the dark side :-) A Turbopower? How COULD you? Only joking! Wow, that's an ace find, that really is a beautiful shade of red. Such a shame these are so rare. I saw the remains of one at Ritchie from Crawley's work, the plastique on that snapped like a chocolate bar, quite...

I know! But I ain't saying nuttin'! Looking forward to seeing it in its new home! Si

Woo! Real shame about the handle bail, but you've still got the best example of a 14 in the UK! Look forward to seeing this baby in action! Si

It's a good question... Over the years, Hoover certainly came out with quite a few flawed machines, but I understand that the early Purepowers are vastly better quality and more sturdy than the current ones, not that I've had any experience with them myself. It seems to me that Hoover didn't...

Aah, ain't love grand! Fondly remembered childhood machines are the best! Nice to see you on here now, Paul, you've been corrupted! I hope you two can put some pictures up of your TP collection, I've got to admit that I'm really starting to appreciate the TP1/TM series more and more. And I...

Constellation season in Surrey! Uh-oh Jack, looks like you're being dragged into the 1950s here! Is it just me, but are the plastic and rubber bits on the 1334 slightly darker than on the 652 and 862? I'd noticed it on my Deluxe and Junior, and put it down to different batches, but it seems to...

OK, I'm going to be provocative here... I've commented on this at Hooverland, but looking over the pictures again, I have to say that I really do prefer the 'look' of the Hoover over the Electrolux! I just think the Lux (and others of it ilk) were a bit, well, dowdy compared to a lot of the...

Great! I think I can guess who that was from, bless him! Seriously, that's what I call a thoughtful gift! Do you still have your yellow 867A too? Dig it out the attic, you've got the perfect counterpoint now hehehe. I dug out my service manual, the 822A was built between January 1958 and...

Excellent! Well done Seamus, I didn't see that one, but then I've got to give Ebay a wide berth at the moment! Nice to know it's going to a good home! Si

Fantastic! We await the video ;-)

Smashing! Thanks for scanning this so quickly, Seamus! A few observations: 1) I notice the Senior seems to have the later style bag, but with the old font. Damn, another version to look out for! 2) What on earth is holding up the Hooverette? It seems to be supporting itself! 3) I want those...

Note the similarity to the Electronic Turbomasters.

Whilst we're on the subject... A couple of pictures of the System 20 I passed on to a friend who likes his eighties cleaners!

It's a very nice machine Fred, do you know if a range of these were sold, or just the one model? In Europe as the Sensotronic there were at least five variations available at any one time. I wonder in which part of the world they were marketed as the Automatic? Those hoses were indeed very...

Lookin' good with its siblings! Glad you've finally got a Minor, Jack, and one that needed so little work at that! Out of curiosity, is it Perivale built? Si

I'm suprised it was sold in '64, I thought Bylock had gone bust by then! Gotta love that jaunty fifties font for the 'Tablevac' name. But with 300 watts and vented tools, no wonder it didn't get past its first Speed Sak... The perspex dust chamber cover is a really nice touch though, another...

Mark, I think that is definitely collectible already too! I'm suprised the Aquatronic wasn't more popular, you would have thought a 3-in-1 cleaner that looked like a normal cylinder would have sold very well. I wonder if it was flawed in any way? ISTR there was only one version of the Aquatronic...

These give me a terrible urge to strap a Junior 1346 to each foot...