British hoover purepower. In the usa!

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Vintagerepairer

No not you, I was disagreeing with Alex. You just posted quicker than me.

My gran had a Rolls "Rapide" twintub washing machine.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Thank you for replying. Mother had a Concord but I don't remember a thing about it apart from it having three dials on the front, each one close to the next. I only know she kept it up to the point where she was bought a Hoover front loading automatic.

 

[jmurray01]

That's very true Benny, since the Senior range ceased production in the late 70s (with the exception of a few store exclusives like the Co-op Ranger etc...) the "Beats as it Sweeps as it Cleans" reputation was lost.

Yes, some say the Activator brush roll was better than the traditional beater bars, but I still disagree.

I'm sure the main reason HOOVER stopped incorporating the beater bars with their brush rolls was due to the fact that the general consumer would see a big lump of metal on the brush roll and think "oh no, that'll ruin my carpet!".

 

[vintagerepairer]

I think the reason the metal beater was lost was because more and more parts on all vacuum cleaners were switching to plastic as it was cheaper, and a one-piece roller like on the Turbopower would mean less assembly too, as there was no need to fit two beater strips to the cleaner. My own opinion as to why Hoover switched from two wide beater strips to several plastic lumps is because if the traditional beater had been all plastic, it would very likely get damaged easily by hard debris. One only has to look at the condition of the beaters on Electrolux 500 and Hitachi cleaners to see this. But I could be very wide of the mark.

I still stand by my comments that the beats as it sweeps as it cleans idea had long passed by the mid 1980s. The U1104 Junior was the last to really talk about such a feature and even those models were fitted with a Turbopower style roller towards the end of their production run.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Maybe it wasn't publicly announced as much as it used to be but threw the 80's and early 90's it was still there, as you can see from a picture of a page on this brochure from about 1990 I think? it is still beeing advertised.

 

[jmurray01]

The carpet in that picture is the same as the stuff we have upstairs!

 

[alexhoovers94]

Yh it is nice carpet.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Hi Alex, thank you for sharing that. It confirms exactly what I was saying, that Hoover still mentioned the beating action in their literature, even though the salespeople in stores and such places would not generally home-in on the beating facility in any great detail when selling a new cleaner. And again as I said earlier, not many purchasers in the last twenty-odd years were geared towards a beating action, I suppose as there were other features on a good deal of other makes and models which they liked more than the cleaner with the beaters maybe. I think it all depends what little details individual people go for. I do recall well one older couple buying a reconditioned Electrolux 502S off me and liking the fact that they could replace the roller brushes piecemeal, unlike their existing and much newer cleaner where the roller was a complete unit. But I didn't get many people asking questions about things like that.

 

[floor-a-matic]

It's a shame Hoover no longer uses beater bars since the Elites were introduced here in the USA. Why can't Hoover (both USA & UK companies) continue making BEATER BARS & METAL brush rolls instead of PLASTIC? Beater bars actually ENHANCE deep cleaning of carpets better than a stiff bristles-only roller ever could.

I wonder if Candy is doing the same things to Hoover UK as TTI with Hoover USA like cheapening their quality & removing key features (full bag indicators, dirt sensors, inefficient tools, etc)?

 

[jmurray01]

I wouldn't call a full bag indicator a key feature... As said in another thread they are next to useless.

 

[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