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British Bakelite Hoover light socket plug Found this via ebay. Dedicated aftermarket Hoover plug for bayonet light fitting. Has British registered number which dates from 1930 (presumably as sales of the 725 took off). I notice the words Hoover are in inverted comma's, presumably because it...

Yeah, Immediate post WWII: Small, relatively poor population with a poorly developed consumer goods manufacturing sector versus huge, more affluent population already accustomed to a cornucopia of consumer durables. For instance, Refrigerators did not become commonplace in the UK until the...

Hi, I have 3 of these brown Hoover plugs which would have been factory fitted to the 262, the 612 and the 119. They are all in very good condition, complete with screws and not cracked, perished, hardened or worn. I am looking for straight swops for the black version in the same condition...

Electricity in the home I don't think people would initially have had sockets. People would originally have had electricity put in to enjoy the "wonder of electric light". Its a chicken and egg thing; you cant sell an appliance to someone without electricity but how do people know they need...

Nice! Think I saw that on eBay too. Wrong side of the Atlantic and wrong voltage for me though. Enjoy!

Dodgy connections and which plug to use... Rolls rapide: A good if slightly terrifying adaptation. As a young teenager I started buying old electrical goods from my local auction at the end of the '70s. Bill the auctioneer had a novel method of testing things without fitted plugs: wrapping the...

I have had this in a tin along with all the black and brown ones for 25 years. Just worked out what it is for by looking through old threads on here....[this post was last edited: 8/24/2018-14:25]

Loft finds cleaned up. Have now got the 450, the 875 and the 575 roughly cleaned. Also been inside all of them and briefly had a poke around but it'll be a while before they each get a proper strip-down. Worst discovery so far is a broken 12 blade fan on the 575 but the parts machine had a good...

UK plug Thanks! I think the plug you are seeing is the (unplugged) motor plug hanging down on the 575. So far as I know the UK never used what I would call continental style plugs but you never know: I seem to remember that UK voltages were not standardised until about 1960. A lot of old UK...

Hoover 700 Handle One of my 700's is a very early model, serial number 11,500. It's got some detail differences from the other three 700's I have owned, including a "Servant to the home" motor badge in place of the royal crest. It still has its alloy and plastic handle and original metal...

Hi W,   Yes, very pleased with the Haul.   Re 575 I will PM you, keep an eye on your junk mail box...   Cheers

Hi, Just joined Vacuumland. I am UK based. I had a large collection of cleaners back in the early '90s. I reduced this to a small number of my favourite pre-war Hoovers (2 x 700's, a 725, 3 x 750's and a couple of 800's), all of which I recently got out of storage, rekindling my interest. I...