having one of these....?

[turbomaster1984]

?

 

[turbomaster1984]

then you need one of these.....

The new Major, so powerful cleans so quickly....

(I forgot the vol au vents ooooops)

 

[turbomaster1984]

Yes I finally got the last of the dream vacs and a fewothers I wasnt banking on.

First Second Third AND Fourth Series Majors.

First was like the second pictured here but in a darker shade of brown (not in picture but still awaiting its restoration.

Second with silver tool slider port.

Third which incidentally was the vac in our house when I was born until 1988 with its brown tool port slider.

Fourth with new shape hood and uniform colour.

Now just to find the last Sky Blue version.......

 

[turbomaster1984]

The elusive one.

 

[seamusuk]

The local RSPCA shop...

Has a Moulinex Master as their shop vac. Thinking of enquiring if they want to sell......

 

[gsheen]

OH my , My mom had the major with the metal tool slide. It was replaced by a Turbomaster and a AEG 509 I wish I still had one. 


 

 

[Jakesvacs]

I love the second picture!
Something about box type Vacuum Cleaners with me.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Turbomaster, I wonder if you would mind going into a little more detail about this first Major cleaner, the one you say is darker in brown. I cannot place this one.

 

[turbomaster1984]

Benny,


Taken from the 1979 AW Kays catalogue this is the darker brown version.

The lighter brown version in the 1980/1 catalogues is the shade you see in my picture of the 2nd version.

The one I have in the garage awaiting restoration is indeed this 1979 colour....

instead of being a milky coffee kind of colour like the later ones its more a coffee with a splash of milk lol.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Thank you for taking the time to explain. I must say they all look the same colour to me! The differences must have been subtle.

 

[gsheen]

My Mom 's one was a 79 major , I loved that hose as well so big you could suck up wood chips with it , pity the fan would be destroyed, In fact I seem to recall that been the demise of our one, the fan housing shattered 

 

[vintagerepairer]

The fan housing was a major (excuse the pun please gentlemen) flaw in the Moulinex range. The hose was great, as you say Gary, it was so wide you could pick up a good deal of debris.

 

[turbopowerpaul]

Hiya Benny

Having seen all the cleaners myself, there does appear to be a subtle difference with the early version that Rob has.
Its a darker more burnt shade of orangey/brown - we will have to try and attempt a visual restoration of it on Saturday, so as to be able to compare them more clearly.

Until then, here are the three machines - the currently defined 2nd version Major 553, third version Major 553 and fourth version Major 828 (cleaners right to left)....

 

[turbopowerpaul]

Hi Seamus.

Anything that you could re-equip your local RSPCA shop with, plus a suitable dontaion to a good cause?
Dont ask - you dont get

Paul

 

[vintagerepairer]

For value for money, these Moulinex machines were the best around. I remember a woman bringing me no less than three identical turquoise 'Master' models in for repair. As to why she had three, I wouldn't normally have asked and would have cared even less, but I couldn't help myself. She mentioned to me that her previous cleaner had cost her a good deal of money and had not been a good investment. I forget what she had, but what I do remember is her saying she'd been looking at a Hoover Turbopower, with a view to getting her existing cleaner mended (again) to use upstairs, yet the Moulinex was so cheap that she actually bought two for little more than the price of a Hoover. The third cleaner was one which she'd bought soon after hers, for her mother. Usual thing, the cleaner came to her when the mother came to live with her or died or whatever it was that happened to her. I know the woman said she didn't have a clue which cleaners were originally hers and which wasn't.

 

[sensotronic]

I've always liked the look of the Moulinex Major and thought about getting one in the 80's, even though I was strictly a Hoover only kind of guy.

Is there any chance of a photo of the underside? I have never seen the brushroll.

 

[vintagerepairer]

If you have never seen the underneath, you are in for a treat, as there is not one but two styles. The older style was by far more robust and had a solid, well built brush roll with fixed brushes, a bit like the Panasonic in so much as the bearings and fixings were a good way into the roller from the end. The newer style was like that of the Electrolux 500, with a sleeve bearing each end and had replaceable brush strips.