1962 Hoover scrubber brochure

[john116]

Not quite a vacuum cleaner, but hopefully allowed on this forum.

1962 Hoover Scrubber/Polisher Brochure (UK)

 

[paul]

Not quite a vacuum cleaner, but hopefully allowed on this forum.

1962 Hoover Scrubber/Polisher Brochure (UK)

Thanks for the link. It's always fun to see color brochures and catalogs of vintage appliances. Vacuumland includes polisher-scrubber-shampooers postings, so no worries; they're just not as popular to collectors as vacuum cleaners.

In case you're unaware, the shampoo-polisher in the brochure is model 5464, and its in 2-tone Porcelain Blue. The contemporaneous US model 5460 and Canadian model 5462 were identical in styling. The UK also offered a Porcelain Blue-colored polisher-scrubber, model 5134. Both UK models were made in several successive colors until around 1974; whereas the US and CA used different model numbers for color changes until 1967 when the shape of the hood was redesigned.

All three countries also manufactured identical stick vacs in 2-Tone Porcelain Blue around the same time. The UK's was the Hooverette, model 2944; the US's was the Lark model 2940, and CA's was the Lark, model 2942. I think the US and CA imported theirs from the UK.

 

[john116]

Thank you for all that detailed information! Great to know.

 

[paul]

Thank you for all that detailed information! Great to know.

You're welcome.

 

[Kirby Guru]

Not quite a vacuum cleaner, but hopefully allowed on this forum.

1962 Hoover Scrubber/Polisher Brochure (UK)

Back in the good ole days when this scrubber was good enough. Now a Rug Doctor that you rent from Home Depot is barely good enough. Wow have times have changed.

 

[john116]

My Hooverette and Scrubber polisher, both made in the UK, sold here in Australia.

 

[cheesewonton]

My Hooverette and Scrubber polisher, both made in the UK, sold here in Australia.View attachment 168893

Didn't Hoover also make some of their vacuums ( and other household products ??? ) in Australia?

 

[aussie-plugs]

Yes, they did. At Meadowbank, in western Sydney. If anybody knows, it would be interesting to find out whether these factories really started manufacturing from scratch using tooling sent from USA, or whether they just assembled kits sent from USA which then allowed us Aussies to believe we'd made something when we'd really been assembling under licence. It's interesting that the identification plates say "Made in Australia" rather than "Assembled in Australia", so perhaps we really did do the metal foundry work, plastic extrusion, motor winding and so on. For a small population size, though, it wouldn't surprise me to find out we only assembled in order to provide jobs locally, as opposed to putting a tariff on an expensive American product, which could potentially have locked Hoover out of the country. Historical trade history can be interesting and I'd truly be fasinated to know what may or may not have happened back in the 50's/60's/70's with multinational manufacturers such as Hoover. In the 50's I believe Bendix was assembed in Melbourne, for example, however what I "know" is all hearsay. Does anybody have any more concrete information?