Help needed....Westinghouse Upright vacuum.

[holiwoodroyalti]

Westinghouse

Different version style number Y-4705.

 

[crevicetool]

Chris!!!!

can't talk right now.....feeling light-headed...





thump

 

[holiwoodroyalti]

Westinghouse

Best of luck on your restorations Rick & Terry. If you need any help send me an email: [email protected] I have a service manual that I can send to you if you like.

 

[luxg]

Chris, don't tell Rick, but I am sending you a great big Thank-you!!LOL This is just what we have been hoping for. I think the two that we have are like the one in your first picture. However ours has gray bumpers not brown. Terry

 

[aeoliandave]

Feel the love.

Fairy Tales can come true, it can happen to youuuu, if you're young at heart....

Surely Rick you can take a two-piece mold of the hood badge and cast a new one, then reverse paint it gold and red.

 

[normvac]

Westinghouse/Eureka ?

Guys I have to comment on how similar the base of that Westinghouse upright is to the base of my Eureka D272.
It is the same burgandy, with the side bag, but the handle
fork is low and molds to the shape of the body/hood. It is
from the same cica late 40's early 50s. I remember seeing
the Westinghouse as a kid in 53/54 (before I went to school)
at a neighbors house. I think I also have a vage memory of
seeing the in the appliance dept. of our local Dept. store.
(the Hoover were on the carpet and Home furnishing floor).
Any way when I found my first burgandy Eureka, D272 I thought
for sure it was a Westinghouse. Wrong ! My current one is in
running order, with Orginal bag and all. I also remember from
previous threads about Apex uprights, that look very simular
to both the Westinghouse and Eureka. Wonder if there is any
connection?? The one thing about the Apex is it has the snap
cloth bag cover over the bag clip. I found that interesting.
I just recently acquired a hose that fits the front of my D272
Some one asked on a thread this past winter "dose anyone know
what vacuum this hose goes with"? Anyway long story of connections but I bought hose. It came from St. Louis and it works, It
is the hose. Wonder if it fits/works with the westinghouse or
the Apex??
Norm

 

[aeoliandave]

Excellent detective work and deduction, Norm. Exactly the type os endeavor this Forum and the folks on it are so good at sharing.

Now how about some pictures of your Eureka with hose so you can get the appropriate oohs, ahhs and drools you deserve?

Dave, salivating.

 

[normvac]

I will try this week. I just do not have the sucess of getting
the picture in the camera, into a file and then where I want it to go on line.
I'll try Dave, thanks for asking !!
Norm