A Eureka Followed Me Home...

[tristar]

I found this today at the Christian thrift store in town. I don't know why, but today both me and my sister decided it was a good day to go thrifting. I spied this in a back corner and just had to have it. Worth the $7.95!

It came with Lux wands which is kind of annoying, but it's not that big of a deal. The only attachment I've got is the rug too.

 

[tristar]

The picture you see above is how it looked when I brought it home! All I did was dust it off with a wool duster! That's IT!

Here's a picture of the cloth bag. It had a paper bag in it that had a small amount of dirt in it. The cloth bag got washed to make it smell nice and get the previous owner's trash out of it.

 

[tristar]

Here's how it looks inside. I didn't clean it up! This is literally how it came home! It's hands-down the cleanest vacuum I have EVER found or brought home!

 

[tristar]

I'm loving this vacuum. Even though it doesn't have any tools with it, I can rob the tools from the TriStar if I need to.

Does anyone have any idea of about what year this guy is? I'm wanting to say 60's but I have no idea. It runs like new and has a 7 amp motor if that helps any. It's surprisingly powerful!

 

[kenmore81]

Im comming to texas lol

That is a very clean machine Eric, its rare to find one that clean and blemish free,and Its my favorite color ;~). Im guessing late 50's early 60's. Im thinking because of the handle/hose set up like 50-61? Where's Eurekaprince??? lol Im leaning more to 60's
Kenny

 

[eurekaprince]

I'm here! I'm here!

Nice Eureka Roto-Matic! It will be very easy to find all the matching turquoise tools. That's also not an original hose - I bet the original is a nice turquoise woven hose with one white stripe.

As for year.....hmmm. I think the key lies in the cursive writing of the name "Eureka". I don't think that cursive writing came onto the market until the Mobile-Aire with Vibra-Beat Nozzle. The general window is definitely 1955-1965. I might narrow it more to 1960-1965 since that was Eureka's time period for mostly turquoise machines. Also - 7 amps sounds like a lot for a Roto-Matic of the 1950's. What's the model number on the name-plate? If I could see a close-up of the nameplate, I'd be able to give you all a better idea.

I'll see if I can find an ad for this model and get back to you.

 

[eurekaprince]

Update from Saskatchewan!

Our friend Doug out on the Canadian Prairies is a great resource as usual. His website is showing a similar Super Roto-Matic Model 910 from 1956, but he also shows the Eureka Vibra Beat Model 1010 with cursive "Eureka" logo. His time period for that one is 1959-1962, which is probably when your turquoise SRM is from as well. If you look at the set of tools for the 1010, I would bet that your blue Super Roto-Matic came with an identical tool kit. See link below.

Hope this helps! Doesn't life suck sometimes? And I mean that in a good way....

http://dkas1.50megs.com/Eureka.html

 

[tristar]

Nameplate

Here's a picture of the nameplate.

I'm assuming this is a Canadian machine?

 

[eurekaprince]

Yup - that's a Canadian-made Eureka....

Our Eureka plant was called Onward Manufacturing and it was located in Kitchener, Ontario - about halfway between Toronto and Detroit, and a day's drive for shipping trucks from Eureka Williams headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois. As I've said before, all of North America's Eureka floor brushes with attached elbow necks made in the 1980's say "Made in Canada" inside! So they come from Kitchener.

The model number I see is 980C which really makes me think it is one of the last Super Roto-Matics (the early one on Doug's site is 910 from 1956). I'd therefore say it is from 1962 or 1963.

 

[vacman117]

neat

that is a very neat Eureka. Does it have good suction?

 

[collector2]

Its definately a post 1962 machine as they didnt start with the blue till around that time.

Thanks for checking out my website too - I try to put as much information as I can find up.

Doug

 

[kenmore81]

I wasn't sure if

the hose was original or not,but it is a good match..Thanks for that info Brian&Doug, I didn't want to mislead by guessing. I knew I had seen this(and others) in some ads from the late 50's early 60's and a few in my old neiborhood lol.

 

[kenmore81]

Looking at the hose again closer it does look like the type used on kenmore/Singer? Late 60's 70's. But then again Singer did rebage these and other Eureka's