Hoover Model 29

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I am SO excited! My Hoover model 29 has finally arrived! Our local Craigslist doesn't usually offer many older vacuums on here so I was really surprised to find this one and even more so surprised to find that it hadn't been sold when I inquired about it! I've not had a chance to put it together yet or test it, but will when I get home tonight! For its age, it appears to be in decent condition, however if I was taking a wild guess, I don't believe the bag is original to this machine. John Long and some of the other Hoover experts can confirm or deny this. If anyone knows much on the history of these model 29's I would appreciate it as I've never had one up to this point. Thanks!

 

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The Bag

Here's a shot of the bag, it takes C style bags and is the vinyl zippered type, which I don't believe to be original.

 

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The underside

Here's the serial and model number.

 

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One final shot

Mainly of the handle of the machine.

 

[portable]

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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Model 29 debuted in 1950. These old girls were real workhorses. The first of this design by Henry Dreyfuss, this machine would live on in 3 or 4 more iterations (Models 62, 63, 634 [do I have that right?] and Model 64 [The Citation] before morphing into the Convertible in 1957. </span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">You are right....that is not the original bag. The Model 29 had a shakeout (no interior paper bag) bag.  Yours has probably been converted to paper bag use. Is there a tube attached to the back of the machine? The actual bag used on the Model 29 was a sort-of Burgundy color. The next model to hit the market would be the Model 62, which continued the tradition of reusable paper bags that started with the Model 61. BUT...the Model 63 (approximately 1953) debuted the throwaway Type C Hoover paper bag. </span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Here's an ad from one of our Vacuum of the Day pictures here on the Forum of the Model 29:</span>

 

[hygiene903]

Love My 29!

And vacuumed the living room with it when we took down the Christmas tree! Mine also has a replacement bag, but it's burgandy and matches the 29 well. Here's a pic.
Jeff

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Sorry, I didn't see the bellows attached to the bag, so of course it has a tube attached to use the paper bags. I would bet it is damn hard to find the original shakeout bag now. But, maybe you could find a red one like Jeff's. That would be close.</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Jeff - That's a sweet 29.</span>

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Great 29s

 I have 2.  One was converted to a C bag.  The other has a replacement shakeout bag.  John Lucis:  PERFECT explanation!! The great vinyl bag was from late 60s , 70s.  My first intro to a 29  was when I was in school.  My "job" was to vacuum part of the convent.  It was a 50 room house,  and had 2 29s.  I knew it was a "sign".

 

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Thank you!

I appreciate all of the information on this machine, and thanks for the VOD photo, I didn't have that one in my folder of VOD's! Jeff, that is indeed an AMAZING looking machine! I certainly would love to find one of the shake-out bags for it, so I'll have to scour eBay, CL, and places like that, unless one of you all have a spare you'd part with! Anyway, I cannot wait to get it cleaned up and checked out from top to bottom and see what I can do about those scratches/gouges in the hood. I think its going to be an awesome machine to have in my collection, and I know John I'm slacking, I STILL don't have a model 28 for the collection, but hey those things are getting harder and harder to find these days! Don't worry though, I'm not giving up until I DO get one!

I swear if I don't stop buying and collecting all of these vacuums, my wife is going to divorce me!!!!

 

[beko1987]

Sorry for the thread drift, but what is an Aero-Dyne? Saw it on that ad and never heard of it before.

Lovely machine too! The bag's not all bad, it could have a brown bojack 1970's cloth bag with VACUME CLEANER down it!

 

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Sam

That's fine! The Aero-Dyne was one of Hoover's canister vacuums. I've never had the opportunity to see one up close and I'm sure other members here know a LOT more about them than I do, but here's an ad from the Vacuum of the Day collection.

 

[compactelectra]

Here is My Model 29

About as original as you get.  Red cord and shake out bag.  The original bags are a scarce as hen's teeth.  They took a beating in use.  Long story about this one, but I had one back in college.  Charlie W. outbid me on Ebay for this one restored it and I finally got my hands on it after using a good deal of guilt.  A time machine.  And a sweet machine.  This one will be retained in the collection for sure.

 

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Now In The Line Up

In my collection.  With the tools in back.  They were just switching over from the brown scheme to the new colors.  So the tools were brown and the machine was a fabulous red.

 

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Aero Dynes

My 53 is one of my favorites.  Still in the brown color scheme.  When I want to take a trip back to the early 50's I get these machines out.  In the overall scheme of things, as a combination, they are fablous cleaners.  They will outlast anything built today.

 

[hygiene903]

John & Steve,

Thank you for the compliments. The bag on mine is a Dust Care and takes C bags. Back in the day their bags, as well as DVC, were probably as close to original as you could get in generic replacement bags.
Fred, your 29 is especially beautiful, and so is your Aerodyne! I have a model 42 Aerodyne, but not nearly as nice as yours. Here's a pic. I should take a new one, since this one was taken I have replaced the hose with a genuine Veriflex hose and replaced the rug nozzle with an original. As for the GE swiveltop to the left, I should take another pic of it too. It has since been cleaned up a bit and the hose has been repaired.
Jeff