Hoover Turbomaster U5094 Total System

[vacerator]

Here on tv add's either.

Later Electroluxes have a bad reputation. Not the Aerus ones, but the others from Hungary, and or China.
Panasonic here is mainly Sears Kenmore, for now. Hoover has few commercials, mainly QVC promotions. The neat cylinder Hoover had that swiveled upright and sideways behind furniture wasn't even offered here.

 

[vintagerepairer]

During the mid 1980's when Electrolux bought out their 612 cleaner, it was advertised a lot in the region where I was a viewer - the advert I recall most was the one with the lady who had a 612 competing with a sportsman who didn't. But there were some other shorter ones too which I can't recall. Panasonic made a huge deal of their wall-to-wall upright cleaner, with the tag line that if you have a wall-to-wall carpet you should have a wall-to-wall vacuum cleaner. Also another where they cleaned a snooker table.

The Electrolux Contour was another one which was advertised on TV - the advert I recall most was the dinner plate being held up by two vacuum cleaner hoses. When the none-Electrolux cleaner was switched off the plate stayed attached to the other hose, but switching off the Electrolux Contour caused the plate to drop.

Apart from the Turbomaster Freedom advert I don't recall seeing many adverts for Hoover upright cleaners from the late 80's until the Turbopower 1000 Autosense (diamonds) advert went live. But as before I am sure there were some. I do remember plenty for their cylinder vacs, particularly in the late 80's and early 1990's, and of course for their 3-in-1 which was a rival to the heavily advertised Vax cleaner.

 

[sebo_fan]

Thanks Benny, I have never seen those Panasonic upright ads until now! I guess the reason there were far and few between was when WHICH took it upon themselves to stir up trouble when a child stuck their finger into the brush roll of a moving Panasonic upright who were then forced to fit silly covers. I should fish out the magazine somewhere to show what Which thought of those early uprights.

Infact I will do that later on. I also have Which tests of some uprights including Turbomaster.

 

[ralph123]

Amazing how much dirt was trapped in the old Hoover. Nice job on the clean up and rebuild.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Sebofan, I was never much of a follower of Which?, in fact I am still not, so I didn't know they picked up on the Panasonic story. I do know it was all over the TV show "Watchdog" one evening.

Interesting too what Alex said about more Hoover adverts on Youtube than any other - I think again it highlights the Hoover mentality that "more is more" as I don't recall many of their adverts running for long, but do remember lots and lots of different adverts.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Very true, Benny.

Oh, thanks, Ralph.