I agree…we North Americans were lucky to have some excellent Panasonic power nozzle canisters in our stores in the 1970’s and 1980’s. These were all made in Japan and eventually outperformed even Eureka canisters in Consumer Reports tests at the time.
It makes sense that Matsushita/National/Panasonic would leverage their expertise in power nozzles by offering them to markets outside the USA and Canada. The hose handle on that GE is identical to some of the hoses sold with North American Panasonics….yet it seems closer to the ones we got in the 1990’s after Panasonic took over the US Whirlpool factory.
