Can someone give me info on older vacuums

[oldcrankman]

Does anybody have info on early simplicity/ Riccar/and Panasonic vacuums??

 

[panasonicvac]

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?28087

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23612

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?30939

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?30209

 

[oldcrankman]

Thank you.

Sorry for late reply. I have Covid and feel like crap.

 

[beevac]

Riccar ,Simplicity, & Early Panasonic cleaners.

Riccar was originally a Sewing machine company. It became a part of Tacony Corp & started manufacturing vacuum cleaners I forget what year. Simplicity vacs are also made by Tacony. The vacuum repair shop that I worked for decades was a Riccar authorized dealer & warranty service station. I worked on many Riccar machines. I also sold Riccar cleaners at the front end of the shop. Riccar had Panasonic make a nice canister designed by Whirlpool. this was in the 90's . The first Panasonic vacs were made in Japan & were decent . Their motors had a long life & they had idler pulleys that required 2 belts to drive the brushroll indirectly . Later on they bought out the vacuum division of Whirlpool & from then on they used Whirpool tooling ,designs & engineering. Also they were American made . The japanese tooling was scrapped. I don't know much more than this.