a Sixties cleaner by excelsior (dutch) brand new (pic)

[edgar]

A complete excelsior from the sixties. Greetings from holland.

 

[vacbear58]

And greetings back from London

A similar model was sold here in the 1970s branded as Kenwood, and yes I do have one. Does yours have the interesting swivel hose connection to the cleaner

Al

 

[edgar]

swivel hose

Al,

Off course it has the swivel hose conection. That is what made this vac famous )))

 

[vintagerepairer]

So how does the swivel hose work? I presumed the hose connected at the front, seeing how there is nothing in the top.

 

[vacbear58]

Benny

It does connect at the front, but the connection point swivels. My version "sounds" to me like and Electrolux so it may be they bought the motors from them

Al

 

[markus79]

nalle

If I remember right we had the same model called Nalle but it was yellow and with swivel hose.

Markus

 

[vintagerepairer]

Hi Vacbear. Thank you for that. You could be right about the motor. I know of one other cleaner which used an Electrolux motor. I've never seen anything like this Excelsior before. But then I didn't go into the vacuum business until almost 1980 so I only know about what you would call popular models on sale before that time.

 

[vacbear58]

Which

Here is the Which report for it October 1973

 

[vintagerepairer]

Hi again vacbear. Thanks for sharing. Seems to have been a good cleaner all round, for the price. Do you happen to know how long they were for sale for in the UK? I am guessing that like the cleaners in the 1980s, it was not built by Kenwood.