2.0 Eureka Shipping and Production History Pre-1947

[hoover300]

To wrap up, the following models I was not able to document in any way:
Model C Auto Cleaner
Model L Auto Cleaner
K-60
K-60A
GH-31-P
R-41-P
R-49
D174

And the following I was not able to document fully:
Model 1
Model 5
Model 8
Standard #2
G30
G31
M-61
M-61A
R-LC
R-41
D171
M262

If anyone has info on any of these models, or of the documented models, please don't hesitate to speak up!

 

[paul]

Hoover 300,

First of all, thank you for all the photos and your research of the early period of Eureka floor care products. I also appreciate the credit you gave me for the advertisements.

I had found the Model H Junior in other advertisements but not the Model J, so your photo's are expanding our knowledge of those rare cleaners.

Secondly, I checked your top model list in reply #29 and was unable to find any ad's for them likely due to their short production runs. As for the 'D-174' I don't think it existed. I believe you got that from the 1958 Shipping Record and had thought the same thing until I located several references of the Model 'D-171'. I also wanted to mention that I believe the main difference between the D-171 and D-272 is that the latter was made to be compatible with the new Disturbulator.

A couple suggestions for you are to check with 'DadsVacuum', who posted the 1958 Shipping Record. I noticed that he didn't post the page for the tank cleaners, hand vacs and the auto vacs; so his Dad's list would at least have the production periods in them. The other possible resource is paying a visit sometime to the McLean County Museum of History that houses Eureka's archives.

Thanks again for sharing all your research.

 

[hoover300]

Portable posted a 1938 Eureka model list that lists the 2 Auto Cleaners(below). I do have one pictured in an ad, but unsure which model(below). The D174 being the D171 is very plausible, but the production start date of 1934 makes no sense, and in case of a typo 1944 still had the wartime production change in effect.
Thanks!

 

[paul]

Thanks, I hadn't run across that document.

I agree that the long run of the D-171 doesn't compute. The only references I was able to locate on my library's database for the Model D-171 were:

1. Prentice Hall Price Control Service, 1942 (full document view inaccessible)

2. Consumer Goods Desk Book - Office of Price Administration, 1946 (full document view inaccessible)

3. US Office of Price Administration Press Release, 1942 (attached)

 

[paul]

I wonder if there were some errors in the Press Release I posted in reply #32? 'N-51A' appears in no other place in the database.

Then, in another 1942 press release I just located, it lists 'N-61-A' as being a floor-type cleaner (upright). I'm thinking it should have been listed as 'M-61-A'.

It's blurry because I enlarged it.

 

[hoover300]

But in the other press release it shows the M and N, and the M is priced significantly higher.

 

[paul]

True - maybe the Model N was some type of compact vacuum cleaner that was listed on the 1958 Shipping Record page that wasn't posted (with the tank-types and hand vacs).

 

[paul]

Misc. News Blurbs

1) March 1928

2) September 1931

3) February 1939

 

[paul]

Some Surprising 1941 Ads!

1. 1941 Mar 19 YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR - Attach-O-Matic coupler

2. 1941 Dec. 9 PITTSBURGH PRESS - New De Luxe with Attach-O-Matic (likely the Model D-171 - styled by George Walker!)

 

[hoover300]

So neat.. I know someone with a front bag M. Sadly the bag is missing, but the front facing hook and the hook on the fan case are present.

Royalsuper sent me this sweet 1970s photo awhile back. Note the models 3 and 4 have repro bags, but the repro bags are so old they have clips on the bottom. Imagine when they stopped making those as replacements!

 

[vacmadman]

Thanks

Thanks for all your hard work putting this together. I love my Eurekas and hope to add more to my collection. Thanks again!! I keep an eye always open for old adds for my models K, and M.

Jim

 

[luxlife]

Was the M the only one with a 2 speed switch on the handle?

I have vague memories of one that my grandmother had. All I remember was the handle release and the 2 speed switch.

 

[hoover300]

Nope, the R, all of its subsets, D171, D272, and M262 all had 2 speed switches in the handle.

 

[hoover300]

Found an M61 in the flesh! I hope to own it at some point

 

[paul]

From the Hagley Museum, DE

Electrical Association of New York
National Electrical and Radio Exposition (1934 : New York, N.Y.)
Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.)
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company

 

[paul]

Poor''s & Moody's 'Manual of RRs & Corp. Sec

 

[paul]

Poor''s & Moody's 'Manual of RRs & Corp. Sec