Check out this Hoover !!!!

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Second Part:
Electrolux!

 

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Later, let's say from 1936 I found advertisings of another brand of floor polishers and, later, vacuum cleaners: Columbus. The first one I saw was a two-brush model with bag.In practice people understood that they could pick up dist and dirt from their hard floors while keeping them shiny. A few months later a triple brush model(with the third brush in the front) was itroduced and remained published for many years. Triple brush polishers were excellent because they could spread even hard waxes easily with hard bristles brushes in a very uniform way, then polish with softer(usually black) bristles, and later with felt pads.
The wide use of hard floors in italy ( usually marble in living areas and wooden in bedrooms) mad floor polishers much more popular than vacuum cleaners in general, at least before the Fifties, as vacuum cleaners were very expensive and many people preferred to beat rugs and upholstered furniture outside but have shiny marbles or woods...no comment!
In the course of the Fifties Italian economy grew up quickly and many other brands of electrical aplliances appeared, some had the luck to survive for many years.One of the best brands that specialized in floor polishers was REM, producing at least three sizes of triple brush suction polishers (after producing a two-brush version) allowing to take care perfectly from very small to very large areas.
Hoover introduced the suction polisher in the early Sixties just because Italian market needed it and Hoover policy has always been "give them exactly what they need".
would you like to know something interesting? From the late SIxties most of Italian floor polishers were made by a pair of factories and sold under differnt shapes and brands...if you turn them upside-down you see the same brushes same diameter, same features.Isn't it funny?
I made a little mistake before sayng that Electrolux never made suction polishers: they mad a very heavy, tough, large triple brush suction polisher, but I can't find a pictue of it now!
I'll post it as I find it!
I hope this helped a little bit
Tommy

P.s.:
This is my Medium sised REM

 

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