🎉Happy 115th Anniversary, Eureka USA!! 🥳

[paul]

The Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company was founded in 1909 by Fred Wardell and incorporated in the State of Michigan on this day in 1910.

Attached is a history I compiled (recently revised) and some other items to mark the occasion.


https://vacuumland.org/threads/3-0-eureka-shipping-and-production-history-pre-1947.44881/

https://vacuumland.org/threads/eureka-chron-o-matic-timeline-—-1909-1999.44471/

https://vacuumland.org/threads/eureka-color-pak-1945-1995.44230/

https://vacuumland.org/threads/untangling-eureka-usas-christmas-lights-—1957-1982.45562/


Euphoric Eurekaing and reading!

 

[paul]

I see that my uploads were reordered. Look at the captions to navigate the history pages.

 

[paul]

I like scrambled eggs, but scrambled pages is annoying, so here's a page-by-page upload attempt at order.

 

[vacerator]

Like Ford, Chrysler, Chalmers, Fisher coach/body, Marquette, Cadillac, etc., and Motown, Eureka began in Detroit. Packard did not. Warren Ohio actually. Fleetwood body in Pa. Flint was the original GM town of Buick and Chevrolet. Then Oakland became Pontiac there. Oldsmobile in Lansing. Parts divisions sprung up mainly in central Indiana, also Harrison NY, Rochester, Dayton Ohio along with GM Frigidaire.
Eureka moved to Bloomington and became owned by the Williams Oil-O-Matic heating burner co. acquisition.