Forgotten Hoover Products

[wstonehockertv]

A forgotten Hoover product is very likely to not have a single video or two of it on Youtube.

 

[panasonicvac]

There's no videos of this one online anywhere.

 

[wstonehockertv]

I never heard of that unit. Looks like an Electrolux Discovery machine...

 

[oreck_xl]

More like an Oreck BigFoot.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

panasonicvac

That one came from England, due to it being made by Hoover PLC in 2002, years after its split from our Hoover arm following the "Free Flights" disaster.

~Ben

 

[luxlife]

It’s rebadged from another maker

I’ve seen it in Europe as a Fakir or as a Nilco.

One of its earliest iterations in the U.S. was as a Clarke Combi-Vac.

 

[panasonicvac]

It's possible it came from England, but I'm pretty sure the pictures were taken in France when I found them online.

Technically these were sold in multiple brands including Sebo. In the US, they were sold under as Powr-Flite, Sandia, Bissell, my personal favorite Oreck, etc.

 

[kirbylux77]

NOT a Fakir!

It's a rebadged Italian commercial upright. If I recall correctly, made by a company called Ivac.

One way you can tell it's not a Fakir is the bag door. The Fakir's bag door latch is flush, doesn't stick out like it does on a Ivac.

Rob

 

[wstonehockertv]

There are more Hoover products that are not on Youtube.

 

[panasonicvac]

Which ones are there?

 

[wstonehockertv]

Hoover Telios and the Kmart-exclusive Runabout variant.

 

[panasonicvac]

I never heard of a Hoover Telios before, was that sold in the US or elsewhere? And do you have photos of the Runabout that was sold through Kmart?

 

[wstonehockertv]

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[panasonicvac]

Never seen either one before, fascinating! It looks as the Telios was sold in other countries according to the wattage but the Runabout was sold here in the US according to the amps. Very much reminds me of the orange S1361 canister that I knew Hoover sold here before and it looks very similar to both of those other ones, they're probably made by the same manufacture which I don't know who it is.

 

[wstonehockertv]

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[panasonicvac]

Don't think I've ever seen either of those before as well. I knew Home Depot sold a orange Farrington Windtunnel Self-Propelled model before but I don't think there's videos of that one on YouTube. Unless if someone just recently did and I haven't checked yet.

 

[wstonehockertv]

I can't find a pic of that orange Windtunnel Home Depot once sold.

 

[panasonicvac]

There is one on here, curiosity to kirbyloverdan.

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?24237_117

 

[panasonicvac]

*courtesy not curiosity.

Two more Hoovers that I also don't think are on YouTube, at least not anymore. A green Windtunnel Widepath LS upright and this Steamvac that was only sold through HSN.

 

[wstonehockertv]

Even though the green Windtunnel Widepath LS and the HSN Steamvac are not on Youtube, it's no big deal because other variants are on there.

 

[panasonicvac]

Also lets not forget the 400 and 550 central vacuums

 

[wstonehockertv]

There's that. Those Runabout pics I found online that are essentially rebadged Fold Away, Telios, Windtunnel/Tempo, Spirit, Sprint upright, and Futura machines, they're kind of a rarity. All I know is that they were Kmart exclusives back in the day.

 

[royalfan103]

The Hoover Preferred Windtunnels. They barely have any vids of them on Youtube.

 

[panasonicvac]

There's only one video of this Windtunnel on YouTube but no pictures anywhere else.

 

[eureka1998]

As panasonicvac stated

The rare Windtunnel Widepath LS. An extremely rare translucent variant of the Limited. Honestly has to be one of the coolest windtunnels I ever saw.

 

[eureka1998]

Hoover Elite Tempo

Also the rare variant in a bright teal green called the hoover Tempo.

 

[eureka1998]

panasonicvac

THere usued to be old QVC photos of the hoovers they sold in the 1990s and the turbopower 5200 was one of them. Theres some photos of it on flickr as well. Surprisingly that one is more common than the Widepath LS. My aunt had the version with no dirt finder, the 5100. So did my mother before a screw was sucked up and burnt the belt out.

 

[huskyvacs]

This particular Hoover Legacy 740

 

[Deleted member 5000]

Soteco commercial tubvac branded as a Hoover HP9D