Goblin Rio vacuum advert

[turbo500]

Here's one I hadn't seen before, staring the lovely Julie Walters.

 

[turbo500]

And here's the earlier version


 

 

[delaneymeegan]

 


 


I love Julie.  Everytime I see Educating Rita  I cry.  She's so good.  


 


Why do they have her in a flying lounge?  


 


.... and I love the Rio.  Unique storage bin base. 


 


Can one still find these Rio's in charity shops and the like?


 


And, did the Rio ever come with an electric power nozzle?

 

[turbo500]

The Rio's still crop up fairly frequently. They were very popular in their day as a lightweight vacuum or a second cleaner, mostly because they were so cheap. It was the cheapest vacuum you could buy for many years. The earlier Rio had a bigger brother - the Solo - that was slightly more expensive but bigger and a bit more powerful.

They never came with a powernozzle. They weren't high end enough for one really, although the TOL Solo did come with an air driven Turbobrush.

In the UK, powernozzle's have never been that popular and were only found on the top end cleaners. When I was growing up, of all the people I knew of who had cylinders, none of them had powernozzle's.

The Rio with the storage box was the Rio stowaway. I have a brochure with one of those in. A great idea, although not unique to Goblin - Hitachi did it a few years earlier. The stowaway is probably one of the rarest Rio's, along with the TOL Rio Grande from the first series. The problem with those models is that they were more expensive. The average Goblin customer usually wanted the cheapest option and the TOL models were creeping into the territory of higher end, better performing brands.

I really like Rio's though. They weren't the best cleaners, let down a tad by crappy tools. But they were very lightweight and powerful, with a decent toolkit they could've been fantastic.

 

[turbo500]

I also love Julie - she's a national treasure. Although my favourite of her roles was as Pat Bedford in "Pat & Margaret".

 

[vacerator]

I Like old tv commercilas

I know Covent Garden is in London, but the kitty cat food ones voice sounds Australian though.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 


 


I'm not surprised there isn't a pn available.  I just held out hope.  


 


I don't generally add brands to my collecting, but I've added the Rio.


 


Interesting though.  I thought about the 1986 model and reflected on something I recently purchased. Now I'm wondering if they were rebranded in the U.S. and sold under the Shop vac name.  I remember when these were on offer, usually at the hardware stores.  But why not at department stores?  


 


I found this about a month ago, at a charity shop, virtually unused, too, with all the parts.


The base with motor, looks a bit different.   The latch system is on the side on the UK version vs. a button release.  I wonder if the Goblin Rio had wheels.  Mine has 2, yes, 2 wheels on the motor end.  


 


Do the Goblin Rio take a bag?  Or does it have a removable container with filter screen?

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[delaneymeegan]

 


 


 


Does Julie have a Cockney accent?

 

[turbo500]

ShopVac owned Goblin, I believe.

No, Julie has a Birmingham "Brummie" accent.

 

[delaneymeegan]

Interesting

 


 


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[vintagerepairer]

That's when Glen-Dimplex who own many, many UK brands bought the Goblin name.

 

[delaneymeegan]

Thank-you Chris, for the information.


 


Am watching Pat & Margaret.  I love Brit productions from the 90s. It reminds me of Jenifer Saunders in Ab. Fab. for several reasons.


The spit-fire who played Claudia Bing (of Bing, Bing, and Bing) is playing Claire.

 

[turbo500]

That would be Celia Imrie. Another British treasure and, along with Julie Walters, a long-time collaborator with Victoria Wood who wrote & starred in "Pat & Margaret".

 

[vacbear58]

Have one now

There is a good example on ebay at the moment



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-vint...892782?hash=item2ca9c617ee:g:HAIAAOSwQPlV8J9S

 

[turbo500]

Thanks Al, that is a nice example. Although a tad pricey - they weren't much more than that when they were new!