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You don't see all that many Singer vacs around for sure. There were Singer Sewing Machine stores selling vacs in Canada back in the 60's and early 70's but my guess is that more people opted to buy a vac from either Simpson/Sears or the Bay/Eatons with their charge cards.

I'd like to see a picture of it. If it looks interesting I might be interested,, Royal Oaks pretty close by to me.

I thought deceased people only walked around let alone went shopping for vacuums in zombie movies.. .LOL It's a nice one though... going for it?

Lucky you I got my first Miele only a few months ago at a thrift store, the white Allervac model, and I have to say I really do like it. I use it almost everyday because it's so quiet.

3.5 hr drive for me.. There'd have to be more vintagey vacs than those for a trip like that.

I've tried twice now inviting more SW Ontario guys over for a meet but had zero luck. It seems to be just me and Dave in Stratford who actually want to get together. I'll give it one more try in a bit.

Trendvac.. I was wondering what these were since there is one sitting at our local Habitat Restore,, looks like a Eureka or GE Swivel top actually... As an FYI as someone mentioned above.. Bradford and Bradford House..sold at Zellers in Canada and Grants in the USA.. that's because at the...

It has automatic tool conversion. You leave the hose connected into the base at all times There is no suction thru the hose when the vacuum handle is lowered for rug cleaning mode.. When you lock the vacuum back into the upright position the suction is diverted from the brushroll area to the hose.

Here's mine and a demo I bought it new around 1989 at Costco <iframe width="425" height="349" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

There's a convention?

and the insides open

from t'other angle

Okay I gave in today and did a little thrift storing and found this delightful little Prince II with all the attachments and storage tray. Looks like the hose is a replacement as well as the cord but she runs nice and the machine body is in very good condition, nary a scratch or scrape and no...

Great score

Goodwill has been "upscaling" its stores over the past year or two along the lines of Value Village and so the chances of finding more vintagey appliances in them is also dwindling . Still there's plenty of others around.. St.Vincent de Paul, Bibles for Missions, and my favorite Habitat for...

Put want ads on craigslist and freecycle.org. To use freecycle though you first have to offer something for free before you can ask for something.. at least you used to.

That's the quintessential green GE polisher that almost everyone had back in the day. Mom had one and I still see them popping up now and again. I've passed on my polisher collection now to another keeper, can't keep everything and I needed space so they're now at the Stratford Repository

Brian I haven't been downtown TO for a couple of years.. do you ever see any of those little Japanese vacs in some of those camera/electronics stores along Yonge? I remember seeing one or two last time

I have one almost, if not, identical and it's called the Pneu-Sweep from 1915 iirc. There's a bellows mechanicsm driven by the drive wheels that sucks up the dirt into a thin cloth back accessible by taking off the wooden front portion. Then theres the carpet sweeper brushroll and pans...

Aye, the small Panasonics the score there.