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Re: What's that smell? pic. What can we expect from a 14 year old?

Brandon, I agree with you about the desirability of Detroit living/visiting; there's a level of good living still alive and well. Downtown core&#92has become once again a civilized destination. My first experiences in Detroit was a a young lad when Dad would take us from London Ontario for the...

Let's be clear here... Hoover's lawsuit failed because Air-Way's brushroll was spun by a second dedicated motor on top of the floor nozzle and the DirtMastR used a single horizontal motor with fans on each end and an extended shaft to turn the brushroll 'backwards'. Hardly an infringement on...

Kirby kickline.

Im a-luvin' this, Robert. An ideal solution. It empowers folks like me to zero in on particularly relevant threads without scrolling through long reams of threads. Now I have even more toggles to explore and stretch out the morning coffee break. Because I have always, and will continue, to read...

very pointless Arghhhh. A better question would be 'Why post this?' Belongs, if anywhere in Vacuumland, in the JUNIOR Forum.

Robert. Thank you. I sorta figured the tagging system could have this sort feature and I guess I jumped the gun to get a clearer understanding. I look forward to the day it is implemented. I was distressed as I watched selfishly interesting 'ancient' vac threads get swamped & perhaps not read &...

Very cool...and speaking my language. Wherever you find this stuff, keep 'em coming, Robert & Fred.

It's a tricky term - vintage - as the years continue to advance. Here's the thing - The machines that interest most of us 'oldsters' come from our childhoods and even earlier if your Gramma still had her's predating our birth. Naturally we tend to gravitate to those magnificent sturdy cast and...

Thanks Tom. My instinctive guess about Hoover was on the right track, if in the wrong direction. :-) I've always said Air-Way lead the pack with original ideas that actually worked and surpassed its competition. The 55A was a radical departure from standard practice, so brilliant the basic...

Having acquired a fabled and supreme 1935 Air-Way DirtMasteR fairly recently and subjecting it to a slow careful restoration (dismantling and polishing every single metal fitting including bolts & screws) I took time out to look up all the patent numbers on the base plate. In 1938 Air-Way...

Dug up this sketch from postings a few years back. This was what we were expecting in the Avalir. :-( Fan top exhaust, Bag centered behind the handle, Quick Change hose connection and possibly a gear driven brushroll. All relatively easy to re-engineer keeping the deservedly famous powerplant...

Great looking find, Sam. Since the 'alligator' pattern is embossed on the sheet metal a new paint job could be justified. :-) No visaable broken bits and the chrome looks flawless.

No doubt that Tom will see this and chime in with the real story. I don't know how many model iterations there are or their differences but it all springs from the pre-war model 55 vertical stance 'fire hydrant' in purple or blue hammertone. This was Air-Way's redesign language after the...

A surviving Muntz Jet and a video ride link below. The 1951-54 Muntz is an evolution of the 1949 Kurtis Kraft Sport of which 38 were built before Muntz bought the rights, extended the wheelbase and added a rear seat...and sadly, from a visual standpoint, de-contented the wide chrome perimeter...

"one awesome turquoise end-table!" Good one, Alex. Lay a glass disk on it and you have a Lazy Susan end table! Having printed and absorbed the article in detail I am struck by a few things... "We planned a heavy schedule of television advertising, because you can grasp the advantages of the...

Sitting Easy on a Roll... This is very exciting and stimulatin', Robert. As you might know I am a HUGE fan of the Roll-Easy (and other unique vacuum designs). I have posted at length about my 3 Roll-Easys; it's all in the archives. This article, that reads like it was transcribed from an...

Simply wonderful. Named the SILOETTE model, those who know will know that this is GE's answer to the 10 years earlier - 1949 - Singer S1 thru 4 upright designed by Raymond Loewy. I am curious if Singer patents had run out, as the GE is mechanically an almost exact duplicate - in updated '60s...

I lucked out getting mine in great condition w original hose. A little tweak under the hose coupler and she works exactly as designed. After much searching and asking around I got the original Garland Green floor tool, too. From Tom Anderson (or was it you Fred?)

At the time this patent was filed in 1938 most upright vacuums, whether the motor was oriented vertical or horizontal, had 3 wheels, the rearmost often taking the form of a swivel caster. This patent addresses carpet height adjustment of the brushroll as Tom points out. A patent is usually for...