25th Anniversary
Walter - my Model 800 is probably my favourite cleaner out of all the machines I own. It performs just as well as the later Seniors, if not better - it has a similar-powered motor, but a much larger fan and more direct air path). And of course, nothing comes close to matching that streamlined, gleaming Art Deco style!
Seamus - sorry, I don't have a copy of this ad myself, the picture was borrowed from 'Simply Switch On'.
Charles Richard - In the US, Models 425, 750 and 900 were the Jubilee cleaners. Hoover actually sent Stan a 'Silver Jubilee' bag for his 425 when he wrote and asked them!! The 800 ad above does say 'Jubilee', but the 800 was launched in '33, so I guess we could have been celebrating some different Jubilee over here...maybe even a royal one perhaps, I'm not sure! I wonder if the UK 800 ever had a Jubilee bag. I've never seen an 800 over here with an original bag, let alone a Jubilee one.
Without access to Hoover achives (assuming the information does still exist - seeing the cleaners they supplied from the 100th Anniversary programme, I don't hold out much hope), I can't be more specific because there just isn't any information available out here, other than what I've put together myself. Regrettably, we have no 'historical centre' equivalent.
