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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...

And in the end Curiously it ended up (sorry no picture) in a black and grey colour scheme (no lights or hard bags) almost in a tribute to the first Junior models of 50 years before. Of course in that time the surrounding market place had changed out of all recognition and Hoover had already...

More colour changes

Now with hard bag as well as soft

1979 Updated a bit further but essentially the same cleaner

10 years on One of many now but still soldering on

And back to the Junior And with the 1334, that was basically it as far as I can see. There were colour changes and a style update in 1967 and of course the dirt searcher but it really did not change that much at all until the end in around 1986 or so

Polisher The burgundy one came first, in 1952

Genius Thank you for that Chris, I wish I was - as far as I am concerned that mantle still rests with our good friend VintageHoover. My understanding (note understanding) is that essentially he worked with the Hoover design team as a stylist, putting exciting and up-to-date bodies on the...

The complete 1958 line up this picture was published in early 1959, which was also going to be an exciting year with the launch of the Hoover De-Luxe cleaner (Senior) and the Constellation

Testing I have loaded this before but it still deserves a second look

Bag cutting and more assembly Note that when the 1334 was launched they got a new factory to manufacture it (it was close by to Perivale) just as they did with the Constellation (Wembley)

production line

Lark again Chris, Indeed that was filmed at my home in what has now been christened the "Launderetta Conservatoire" by ChesterMike - yes, my conservatory is now full (almost completely full) of washing machines! I do not think it is correct to call it a restyled 1224, if anything it is a...

1334 1958 was an exciting year for Hoover, for not only did it have the all new Hoovermatic washing machine, they had a completely new design Hoover Junior as well. This is what they had to say about it