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Happy New Year, everyone! Glad to see people have continued to contribute to this thread, and aside from the usual attention-seeker, everyone has managed to keep to the spirit with with it was intended! Happy to say I've now acquired two of the cleaners from my wishlist (which I'll share in...

Congrats! Great find... Dyson have made the brush-bar housing on most of their subsequent cleaners out of clear ABS, to make it easier for users to see if the brush-bar needs de-hair-ing! It's interesting how much the brush-bar housing on the DC07 and DC14 differs from the UK versions of the...

Anyone claimed the Dyson books yet? I'll take them if you're happy to mail to the UK? I'd pay all costs, of course...

'...pieces of crap.' It's a shame we can't discuss anything rationally without using those kinds of expressions. And actually, I don't agree about the Hoover 700 comparison, either.

Why are all of your downing it if you have never even used i Because that's what the forum does. They're all such "experts", they don't even need to give something a try before passing judgement!

I'm not sure that a 1908 Model O, or a 1912 Hooverette, or a 1915 Friction-Drive Baby, could ever be described as 'great cleaners'. Yes, they've lasted a long time (wooden brushroll bearings, sateen bags and woven cords aside), but the T-Series would sweep them under the rug in cleaning...

Hi Dave - thanks for comments - interesting to see Ms. Horst has 'bitten the dust', so to speak... her comment about 'technologies consumers don't even know they need yet!' might have been better left unsaid. I always find watching development, testing and prototype analysis fascinating. I...

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Yup, my photo and my text... Case in point. But I don't want to turn this thread into me whining about photos, lol - on with the vintage vacs! Another favourite - 1933 G.E Model 111:

I was sure that Chris Parker posted some pictures of the Miele AccuNova head recently, and seemed very impressed with it - but I can't find the thread anywhere on this forum, or in the archives! Perhaps I dreamt it? lol

musicinabottle - not sure where you've gone, but thanks, glad you liked it! rolls_rapide - it comes down to a question of space; I have a finite number of pages and data storage to use, and I'd rather focus on the cleaners I actually own than those I don't. Also, my online projects at the...

No, people are more than welcome to save my pictures - just not to use them online without permission. I'm not about to start policing other content of other people's harddrives![this post was last edited: 12/4/2010-22:55]

Could it be Canadian? Or is a recon?

Kirby16: yes, LOTS of my vac images show up on google, and people think they have the right to save them and use them as they wish. On their websites, on eBay... The one you've posted isn't actually the same one as the one I posted; when I took the one I posted, I used the flash - the other one...

~ 1935 Hoover Jubilee Model 800 ~

Ok, I did it - according to someone knowledgeable in these matters, in 1969, it sold new for $79.95. The nearest year I can compare it to is 2009 - but this is what I got: $468.00 using the Consumer Price Index $380.00 using the GDP deflator $485.00 using the value of consumer bundle...

It would be interesting if someone used one of those 'relative value' calculators to compare how much that one went for, with how much a consumer would have paid for it when new....

I agree, Chase - some of the TTI Hoovers have been decent cleaners, and the company continues to enjoy strong sales and brand recognition. The last Maytag-Hoover, aside from the new Constellation, was the Z - creative and ambitious, but impractical, and a massive sales flop. The current...

Hi Chris - I'd agree with you there; I definitely prefer the upright to the handheld. And I've experienced exactly the same issue with the dusting brush not staying in place - glancing through the Amazon.com reviews of the Hoover version, it seems it's a common source of irritation! However...

Bargain!! How much do you suppose the original owner paid for it?! Looking forward to seeing/hearing more! :)