Eureka Shipping Record 1964

[texbodemer]

Courtesy of the McLean County Museum.


 


 


My Eureka 260 EK falls firmly into late May 1964's serial numbers for the 260-B, so I'm wondering if one of the bookkeepers forgot to update the letter in the range, or if I may just have a bizarre example. 

 

[hoover300]

Crap that is cool!! Thanks for sharing! Some info on some weird stuff in there, like a red Eureka Junior made for a month??

 

[texbodemer]

Sure thing!

It makes me even more confused about my Eureka 260 EK though. I'm wondering if there's a cemented date when each letter switch happened.

Or, could it have been rebuilt, and given a new tag with the original serial number? Like, could my 260 EK really be a 260B?

 

[paul]

Yeah, Nick, how cool is that?! Kudos to McLean County Museum of History and to you for posting the 1964 record here!

Regarding your 260-EK, Nick, I would guess that the numbering rolled over at some point. I agree that the 'K' denotes a chrome finish, and we know that the Model-Type 260-E was produced.

 

[texbodemer]

Hi, Paul

The reason why I'm wondering if the numbers may not have rolled over is that they didn't when it changed from 260-A to 260-B. My 260-EK has the serial number 75059, which is 20 numbers away from 5/1964's high serial number of 75037. My rough theory (for now) is that somewhere in the long list of "260-B" there is a transition to 260-E (assuming that the 260-C and 260-D were Canada only.). My theory is that the changes may have been minor enough that the person writing the shipping record didn't feel the need to create a separate list.  (especially since it appears the 260-A was only made from 12/1960-10/1961). 

 

[texbodemer]

Date code?

Paul, is there anywhere on my 260-E that is likely to have a date code? It's a metal base. 

 

[paul]

Nick,

I was just thinking the roll-over was when the numbers ran out—not from one type to another.

As far as the date code, it's possible. I don't think anyone—including Brian—has ever determined when that began and why it wasn't done on every model. It seems to me that there were different manufacturing facilities or teams that did things differently.

Here's a date nipple (Oct. 7, 1967) photo from a Model 248-B that was posted by sfcoronet on thread 14910:

 

[paul]

Nick,

Does the McLean County M of H know that you're interested in later shipping records? If they had one from the 1970s, that would help.

 

[texbodemer]

They know

They know, but they don't think they have one. (It would be infinitely helpful )