Headlights -- Why most modern vacuums don't have them?

[human]

Re-reading this thread several years later brought back a childhood memory of our Hoover Convertible, which did not have a headlight but had a spot on the front of the motor cover where I felt one should rightly be. The lack of a headlight really bothered the eight-year-old me.

Looking at my collection today, all of my uprights have headlights, with the exception of a Sanitaire and an Electrolux Discovery II. The only ones with LEDs are my two Kirby Sentrias. Conversely, only one of my canister power nozzles (all Electrolux) has a headlight and it's the newest of the lot, a model 1623 that came with a Diplomat LX canister that I rescued from beside a dumpster.

 

[hoover300]

Human

What color of Convertible? Like a Hoover U4005 or U4009?
If so, I have the blue one(U4005).

 

[human]

It was the classic 'Brady Bunch' Convertible, beige with a lime green motor cover. We had the full toolkit for it but that stuff pretty much never got used. I have no idea what the model number was but we got it in about 1972. It got passed down to me in late '80s and I kept it until 1998. I always thought the beige bag with all its little air holes looked like a giant Band-Aid.