Commercial Vacuums

[vintagerepairer]

Well the Vorwerk has got to be the original answer to the problems with cleaning which Dyson perceives as an issue. Except that not only can the Vorwerk go 'around' things like a Dyson ball, such is the design that it is flat enough to go right under them too. I am sure I am not the first to consider the ball cleaners to be designed around the idea of using a ball, as opposed to being designed around the perceived problem of not being able to clean around obstacles. Because if cleaning around things was the problem to be solved, there are I feel more effective ways of doing it.

I did once have someone bring me in a couple of Vorwerk cleaners for minor repair. I can't remember the models and I saw so few that they all look the same to me. Well, not quite, there seem to be those like in the picture here, with a motor unit on a metal pole, and those later ones with flat bodies, with the handle and softbag all in one unit. Well the man who bought them in was a caretaker at a school, he said that the vacuum cleaners had long been replaced with cylinder types and that the Vorwerk uprights should have been taken off site. Well they hadn't and his staff still used them and liked them as went under small tables and chairs with ease, as well as cleaning effectively. He paid the bill for the repair, goodness only knows if he was able to get the money back, I didn't ask and I didn't care. I just know that by rights the cleaners would have been maintained under a contract at one time of the day.

 

[ryry_87]

jamie...

yes theres two polishers at the top of the brochure with the Columbus tub, they were all Electrolux's really but Columbus Dixon made them under license I think? bit like Sebo and Ensign etc

 

[ryry_87]

benny...

I remember a few years back working at Gatwick airport, there was a cleaner who used to clean the ticket desks every night and he always had a Vorwerk VK117 with him, he said it was perfect for the job because it was quite confined behind the desks. He said at the time that it was about 25 years old and he'd had it since new. great little machines. It was a badged as a Jeyes Hygiene rather than a Vorwerk though

 

[vintagerepairer]

Mr Murray, it happened because you have to develop the knack of doing it. It's easy when you know how, although call me perceptive, but I would have bet my new kettle that you'd gone off to try as soon as you read about it. The dial telephones which were around for so long, and still are of course, could be fitted with a physical lock & key which sat in the hole of the number 1 on the dial. Doing this prevented the dial from being turned enough to dial out numbers. All that a dial actually did was to send pulses down the phone line and this could be replicated by tap-tapping the switch under the handle. I don't know enough about it to know how people explained away the large phone bills which they inevitably would have had despite having locked the telephone, but then I don't think itemisation of bills existed at this period in time either so it would be hard to say. Given that my father would never have a telephone in the house, it's a wonder I ever knew how to use one correctly, never mind fraudulently.

 

[jmurray01]

"but I would have bet my new kettle that you'd gone off to try as soon as you read about it." Actually, I didn't.

A few years ago I would have though, but I've learned patience since then, collecting Vacuum Cleaners teaches you that valuable skill!

 

[vintagerepairer]

You still tried it though. You do make an old man chuckle.

 

[jmurray01]

Oh well, at least something good came out of it! Ha ha.

 

[gsheen]

VK116 and 117 

 

[gsheen]

vk 122( last of this shape before the new 131) and 121  


 

 

[gsheen]

vk 141 latest model a vk 121 with its bag next to it and a vk 135 

 

[twocvbloke]

There was someone selling one of them Columbus Dixon Eurekalux vacs on ebay last year, they were wanting £150 (or thereabouts) for it, dunno if they managed to sell it or not...

 

[ryry_87]

He still is, and an Electrolux c12. I want them but i'm in the process of trying to get an 1986 Audi 200 Quattro back on the road and it isn't cheap lol vac buying has to go on hold for a bit

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Columbus-...um_Cleaners&hash=item4ab7f75878#ht_500wt_1204

 

[ryry_87]

I love the VK117! really wouldn't mind giving one of those a go.

 

[jmurray01]

I'm not sure if it is any relation to the Vorwerk Vacuum Cleaners you were talking about, but a new member (dickiec) has a Vorwerk in his collection.

 

[ryry_87]

yep a Vorwerk 136 system

 

[gsheen]

136 


 


Same as the 135 but has the newer eb360 carpet nozzle and has a more liver green colour., Not my favourite of the vorwerks , I prefer the 122, the 130 131,135,136 are very heavy for a vorwerk and as a result the cleaner head neck joint breaks with ease. 140 much better and lighter but if i were to use one in my house the 122 would be it.


 


Ryry audi 200 , is it the turbo, nice cars I had a 1990 version very costly to maintain though  

 

[ryry_87]

yep its a Turbo lol its a wagon too so it should be quite a fast but practical old beast. But it's been off the road for 12 years so needs recommissioning. But it does run luckily lol I know all about big car running costs, my everydayer is a Rover 800 lol

 

[gsheen]

ouch my every day is a e 230 merc also a heavy beast the sl although its got a bigger engine is lighter and so it gets better mpg 

 

[jmurray01]

It is at times like this I like to gloat about our 1997 Ford Fiesta 1.25 which gets over 45MPG

 

[sebo_fan]

mmm my old Fiesta "old box" 1.8 diesel used to return 70mpg. These were the days!