Not quite like those, no, as the ones today which I have seen require the user to stick the universal bag onto a cardboard membrane from a paper bag designed to fit the cleaner. Not withstanding the Hoover Junior style cloth bag which was widely available as so many cleaners used that type of fitting, there were companies who supplied cloth bags for a good deal of cleaners, all of which had the opening factory made for the model of cleaner. The user was required to send off a form or a letter or whatever, stating the make and model of cleaner, complete with a cheque or postal order, and a cloth bag for that machine would be sent by return. Even in the spares trade we were able to buy & stock cloth bags, though I am going back a while now and certainly I never did bother as I wanted customers to keep coming back and buy paper bags off me.
