GE Commodore Vacuum with powerhead (Looks like from Japan)

[collector2]

Just a bit of information to throw in here. In Japan, Unlike the US, the major companies work together funding a single research division. Patents are held jointly and then the companies simply make modifications to the designs to their own specs. Hence a lot of the vacuums you see have parts that are common to several brands. Eg: The hose connection is the same on older Panasonic, Sanyo and Hitachi machines. This would be why the machine above looks like the Mitsubishi, has the same power nozzle as Panasonic and shares parts in common with other brands.

 

[eurekaprince]

Thank you so much for that enlightening explanation, Doug! I never knew this.

Maybe there is a similar situation in China where the communist government allows a handful of government approved companies to produce almost identical stick vacs and robot vacs….hence the wide variety of Chinese brand names on essentially similar vacuums.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Wow, the more I know

Also, on a related note, the only thing I’m not really happy about with that Vacuum is that it doesn’t actually have a extension wand that clicks into it, I’ve tried all the other ones that I have, but it seems like none of them really work well, and I did have to replace a belt on it and somehow a Kirby belt actually works well the head does a great job at picking up stuff out of the carpet