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The name was bought by an online shopping company Yup, when that Wisconsin company bought the holdings of Mont. Wards, all the copyright ownership gets transferred to them. Even without that, the owners still own their copyright, it never goes away. And it's before 1964 is OK for Wards since...

Well, can we at least have a section where we can save our own technical know how and experience with particular brands I don't see why that is necessary, all repairs of the vintage vacuums appear in the Vintage Forum and more modern vacuum repair threads go in the Contemporary Forum. Making...

Hold On Speaking of copyright, there is a reason while I only have Sears sales catalogs and not the big main catalog pages on Automatic Ephemera. The big bi-annual Sears catalogs are not in the Public Domain, meaning they are still under copyright protection. Sears renewed their copyrights...

No there was nothing wrong with Rusty asking a valid question, and we answered it. Since the original poster has not returned to the site I see no reason to continue this thread, so I will close it. If the OP returns and has any other questions he is more than welcome to email me.

I can answer that. Curious to know if copyright permissions have been secured for the downloadable files on this site? Yes actually I have permission, if they are not in the public domain. So what that means is I have permission for every single document. Rusty, for one thing you posted a...

Hi Everyone, I've received quite a bit of email today concerning this Kirby manual. First of all it apparently is reportedly from 1963, not 1972 like I had originally estimated. More importantly all we have is section 1, apparently there are 10 sections total... Section 1 Motor Group...

Hi Ben, I don't believe there are any missing pages from the manual, that's why I gave the complete table of contents in the description. Nowhere in the table of contents does it say anything about attachment parts, parts lists for Dual Sanitronic 50, 80 and Classic, Rug Renovator Group, etc...

I have no idea Ben, but glad you can use it.

I seem to remember someone asking for a Kirby service manual a while back, and we recently uncovered one. I have now scanned it placed it into the Ephemera Library for anyone who wishes to have a copy. Sections include: <ul> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica...

The weekly Vacuum Cleaner post is up on the Product Stat blog, this time we go back to the Comprehensive 1941 review of Vacuums right before the war started... The first rule is not to let the salesman sweep you off your feet. And then make sure you really need a new cleaner before you buy. If...

Hi everyone, this week's Product Stat Blog vacuum related post is up and the pictures are beautiful, I suspect that were press release photos from 1958... The Whirlpool with it's first Power Nozzle Enjoy

It would be great to see more of these older consumer reports or other testing information from the 40's, 50's etc. Thanks Bud, I have plenty more Vacuum related things to post. I plan on trying to do a vacuum cleaner related post at least once a week. Please do check the new Product Stat...

Hi everyone, this morning's blog post on Product Stat is a great review of 1959 vacuum cleaners. While I'm sure some will disagree with their findings, it sure makes for an interesting read... Click here to read it: The New Look in Vacuum Cleaners I have 100's of more articles to add to the...

OK I made a change that I believe will keep your mobile site on/off setting either turned on or turned off. It will set a cookie that will remember the settings for year. If you device doesn't support cookies that last between sessions than this will not work, and you will have to re-select...

There isn't actually, but I will look into changing that when I can. Good to know, thanks Nick and Dave.

Thanks Alex, I have plenty of stuff for now and I want the ads to be industrial and based, at least at first, not from consumer magazines. But I will absolutely let you know if I need some more stuff.

Hi everyone, just want to give the heads up that I have recently created a new historical reference website, it is called Product Stat which is short for "Product Statistics". The new site "productstat.com" located at www.productstat.com. The materials on the site will be completely free and...

Just wanted to share this blog post with everyone, it's a great article... http://www.productstat.com/engineering/hoover-convertible-vacuum-cleaner More information on that site will be coming tomorrow.

Hi everyone, eBay had emailed me to let me know about their Vacuum Sale for our site. I realize many of us here are into the vintage stuff, me included, but I thought I would pass this along in case anyone here was in need of something modern... http://www.ebay.com/rpp/home-sales/vacuum-sale-dd

Guys remember this is a 15 year old we are talking about, not an adult. You are dealing with a child. Evan has a purple star next to his name which means he is a Junior member or did have a purple star next to his name, but after this I'm going to pull that privilege. I'm glad we got word...