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Looks great with the new bag installed - and that motor just purrs!

‘She also liked to empty ashtrays with the machine causing it to stink of stale ciggies…’ Reminds me of this image from an Air-Way manual, emptying an ashtray with the hollow handle!

Awesome and heartbreaking at the same time! So many classics there!

I mean… this thread’s been quiet since 2012 🫤

Hah.

It’s a beautiful design… …with some innovative engineering, too! I’m trying to think if there were any other clean-air turbine tools prior to this one? Nothing leaps to mind. Those box graphics are great!

Is this how yours looks? If so, this is normal for Model 425 - at least, all of mine have looked this way. I would guess the small holes are there to allow additional, directed airflow to cool the pulley and belt - perhaps when a dense rug is sealed closely to the floor plate, putting extra...

Great find! Model 425 doesn’t seem to come along very often compared to the scores of 750s out there. Nice to find a flat belt machine that hasn’t been converted, too - Hoover service engineers seem to have adapted many of them to take readily-available round belts over the years. I’ve had three...

Aha, thank you - found it. Mysterious! I haven’t seen a machine with rear filter casing like that previously. Wonder if metal versions were offered as spares at some point, after the original marbled green Bakelite ones were no longer available? The finish has an odd texture that doesn’t look...

It definitely exists, I used one at Mike Roger’s shop back in 2010. There are a few other Canada-exclusive models from this time period as well.

Hi Walter! I’m good, how are you?

Hi Anthony, did you ever find a replacement casing for your machine?

Even here in the UK there are a couple in museums! I think due to the significance of it being the very *first*, a number have survived - possibly more than examples of subsequent from the early 1910s.

Hi guys, do you have any pics from the auction or a link to the listing? I’d be interested to see!

That’s very true, and completely unsurprising - if a manufacturer can make or remake a vacuum that performs to specification but saves them money, they’re going to go for it! Nothing has ever changed there.

Lovely to see another one of these - - and with the orange colouring it does seem to match Model 700 as you’ve mentioned. Wondering where the info about manufacture starting in 1926 comes from? Not disagreeing but just curious about the source, this is really interesting to me!

Hoover Duster/Minor Delighted to see one more has gone to a great home! Although a number have come out of the woodwork over the year, I haven’t seen one sold in the UK under the Duster name, so this is extremely interesting!

Very interesting... ...and a great restoration! I wasn’t aware of the difference in the Model 575 motor casing designs either. For some reason, 575 seems to be fairly hard to find in the UK. I know it took me a number of years of collecting pre-war machines before I found one here, and in the...