Ever Seen one of these???

[dav36]

I bought this Premier Grand at an old vacuum shop in Fostoria, OH, on my way back to Indianapolis from the 08 Convention. I've never seen or heard of this make before. Anyone out there who can enlighten me?? Googling it doesn't help much at all.
See next thread for 2nd picture
dave

 

[dav36]

Full vacuum picture

Here's the full length picture

 

[luxg]

Dave, that is a beautiful vacuum. Hopefully someone here will know something about it.

 

[charles~richard]

As I told Dave in an email, one thing I know about this Premier is that the brush roll should run "backwards," e.g., revolving upward toward the motor instead of downward toward the rug. This machine was made to operate in that manner and won't clean properly if the brush roll is turning downward.

He replied back that if the belt was put on incorrectly it would just pop off, and that's not necessarily true -- many's the time I have installed a Hoover belt the wrong way and realized, after seeing dust spewing out of the bottom, that I had the belt on backwards!

VERY nice find!

 

[normvac]

Dave
How well dose it run? I ask because several years back I
had a friend come to see me and brought one just like it,
except for the bag! He had found it sitting out with the
trash in Delaware Ohio, North of Columbus.
I have plugged mine in once. It ran very, very slow, the
bag hardly inflated. It's the armature, I am sure.
It is my quess that it's 1930's, of course made in Cleveland.
Not much else. Again probably more common in the middle west.
Because of Premeir being made in Cleveland.
Dose your have a two speed switch in the back? The switch on mine is gone and a basic toggel switch replaced it in the front, one speed.
Norm

 

[dav36]

To Norm

Mine runs very well. It does have a two speed switch for high and low speeds. The only thing wrong with the vacuum is that the original bag is badly faded (always happens with dark blue bags)....but it has a similar design to the Premier Duplex bags, so I suspect was made by the same company.
dave

 

[vintagehoover]

That's a really cool cleaner - I love any vertical-motor uprights from this period! I'd love to see a picture of the underside of the machine.

I have a 240v Premier Junior from this period, with the same bag pattern. It's the horizontal-motor layout. I've seen a larger size version of the Junior machine (the Duplex?) in US adverts. Could the Grand have been the commercial version?

 

[collector2]

Part of a booklet I had captured off the web some years back. Unfortunately it didnt give a date for it.

Doug

 

[akabent]

VERY, VERY NICE........

TABLE-FAVOR OR CENTER-PIECE, DAVE!!! LOL

RICK