British hoover purepower. In the usa!

[bagintheback]

From my experience, beater bars worsen the performance when used on carpets that are glued to floor, because the airflow can't lift the carpet. That is how many carpets are being installed these days. If it can't lift the carpet all it's doing is smashing the carpet. Plus most bypass motor vacuums have no where near the airflow necessary to utilize a beater bar correctly. I certainly was not impressed by the Hoover beater bars in my Dial-a-Matic, when I owned one. I think the Quadraflex brush roll was a good successor, and introduced at the right time. The Elite and Windtunnel brush rolls were good as well. I too would like Hoover to go back a few decades, but what they've been selling for the past 30 so years have been correct for the homes built today.

alexhoovers94, would you mind uploading some more of the Hoover brochures? I would love to see more of UK models.

 

[sebo_fan]

I've got that brochure too. Infact it's a pity we can't upload full PDFs of brochures on here.

 

[alexhoovers94]

well I can upload a couple more I guss from this brochure but i don't think i can upload anymore simply because I don't have them and i think it would be copyright i think?

 

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[seamusuk]

The Turbolite......

As you US guys are no doubt aware its actually an Elite 200 rebadged .......

Seamus

 

[alexhoovers94]

This is all I have, and this is not the entire brocure, this is just the uprights, I hope this is ok to post what I have hear, if it isn't I guss an administrator will delete it, I am not sure, but anyway hear is some of the products from this particular brochure from about 1990.

 

[thevacuumlover1]

yes,

Im very aware it's a hoover elite 200 rebaged. Not hard to see hence i have an elite 200...........

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">We only got this one in the States. Known as the Sovereign....unless you count the Dimensions (was that their name? The one shown on the cover of your brochure).</span>

 

[alexhoovers94]

The vacuum cleaner on the front cover of the brochure is a hoover turbomaster total system U5096.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Call me cynical if you will, and it goes without saying that I am not on the Christmas card list of the Queen of England, but I think I could safely suggest that she was not all that involved in the design of the Turbopower cleaners.

 

[sebo_fan]

Mmm if she was, I hazard she'd have requested a longer cord for starters!

Infact I recall watching a TV programme one year about how Buckingham Palace is maintained. I recall they used a selection of old Hoover upright vacuums and the entire sole plate was covered over with a metal grid, just so that the brushes wouldn't remove anything too harshly from the delicate rugs.

Here's a fun spoof video of our Queen cleaning (but sadly not with any machine!).

 

[parwaz786]

Hoover purepower?!

I had an Autosense one

 

[ryry_87]

I've got to say i've never 'hooverized' my carpets either lol might Hoover them but definitely not 'hooverize'

 

[floor-a-matic]

Is the Sovereign the machine that evolved to become the Elite? How many Sovereigns were sold/available in the USA?

 

[super-sweeper]

You're not alone vacuumlover,

I once picked a vintage Toshiba television from the trash, It was set up for British 240V, Still have it