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Hooverette These pop up with amazing regularity although they were sold for about 20 years here from 1961 until 1981 (approx.). It is an direct equivalent to the Hoover Lark stick cleaner sold in North America. Although the Lark was not sold with tools there were later US models (which we did...

Luxury You Can Afford Gosh that takes me back a long way. A former colleague of mine used to work for Cyril Lord in Belfast in the 1960s - he said that as many carpets "went out the back door" as went out in the delivery truck. I can just about remember the TV ads but there seem to be none on...

Hoover 912 Well not a 912 but one of the later versions of it - collection only from Chester. If this is a bit far for you or you don't have a car send me an email (email address in my profile) as I MIGHT be able to get it picked up for you and I will be in the Mansfield area soon Al...

Advertisment here is an ad for this cleaner - dated as 1964 Al

I came across this whilst looking for something else - nice one :) Al

Power Nozzle I am sorry but i do not believe that this series cleaner (its an early model) ever came with a power nozzle - well not in the UK at least. But its still a great find, these more up-market models are quite rare Al

Patience will have to be your virtue David. They do crop up from time to time, although its like busses, one does not show up for ages, and then 3 or 4 all crop up at the same time. They were sold here for 40 odd years so one is bound to turn up eventually Al

Russian Cleaners Have been discussed here before, see the link below http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?19557

Goblins The Goblin 461 appears in the Which report from October 1973 at a price of £19.58, typically discounted to £15.43 which seems like its first appearence. That same report lists the 702 (previously 701 - largely the same though) at £42.45 which was pushing up on the same list price as the...

Louvre John It might possibly have something to do with Portables and Dial-a-matics (non power drive) sold in Europe being manufactured in France - possibly Al

Picture, picture, picture personally I have never heard of it but if you could post a picture or two that would be very helpful in identifying the Parlourvac. I believe the Whirlwind might have been manufactured by New Maid, actually if you do a search on ebay you might well turn up an advert...

Buggles The video is of a performance in Germany not Britain, personally I could not see anything apart from a second of a cut to another video

Hoover cleaners And great hints of some washer porn there as well :) Neither bag is original, and i think that the 300 may have been a re-built (by Hoover) version. Could the motor you saw have been like this Kenmore (acknowledgement to Electrolux 137 for photo)

Orangey/Red While browsing through ebay this morning I noticed the Junior on the link (yes, I know its missing its front cover) and I wondered if this was a main line Hoover colour or an exclusive? And wasn't there a dark blue one but with a similar grey bag? I had been trying to think what...

Plugs Richard The plugs always had the same general style, I have seen them in both 5amp (the most common) and 15amp two pin varieties. They crop up on ebay reasonably often although mostly black and brown, the pink and blue not so much so unfortunately. I am in the same situation in my house...

Hoovers Hi Richard That's a grand selection of Hoovers you have there and you are very wise not to keep the cables tightly wound. I cannot comment on the best way forward to your 1334 (its funny how, although the bags were quite delicate sometimes these 1334s turn up in superb condition) but...

119 Date Wes As Benny says, the bag is a replacement, unfortunately the original bags, unless emptied after every use did tend to rot if the dirt was left lying in them. Thanks for posting the serial number, your cleaner is amongst the last them to be made, it is from the second half of 1956...

DIRTSEARCHER! John Of course you must have a few models if only to prove the consistency of the excellence of the performance over 50+ years :) Believe it or not I have actually been keeping an eye out for a DIRTSEARCHER for you in my regular ebay searches but they have generally been too...

Black and Orange Indeed there was Chris, although it was 652 style rather than Ranger. I have a recollection of seeing this in a vacuum feature in Ideal Home circa 1992 - it seemed strange to see the older style cleaner so long (nearly 20 years) after it had been dropped from the main line - at...

Junior I am sorry if it appears I went on something of a rant last night, it was not my intention to take over the thread, and I hope other members will post their own pictures and experiences. It was such a popular cleaner that I am sure there are few of us who did not come into contact with...