Hoovers Used in Schools Back in the Day

[compactc9guy]

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when i was in grade 2 at the end of the year whe had to clean the class room and the teacher got this huge orange vacuum think it was a husky or some hting any how big plastic shop vac i vacuum my desk ( oh my! i get to use the vacuum really ? yay ! ) i was trill then i ask if i could vacuum the other desk and she said yes . Jackpot i thought then i vacuum the class rug which was in the reading to the children corner of the class yeah one nice lady she was never forget that day i think the vacuum was a tasky orange vac that teacher made my day for sure there i was vacuuming away like no tomorow the assitant teacher notice i was doing a good job and let me vac a few more desk before taking the vacuum back to the janitor what a great way to end the year

 

[lillylux]

I remember a big black Hoover Commercial. It had a frame just like a model 29, but had a smallish, square motor. It had a full size "H Master Delux" shake out bag. The bottom was crackle gray and the rest was black. It was extremely heavy (I gave it a try and you could feel the agitator in the carpet! in later years my school had an Advance upright with two motors. It looked kind of like an oversized Hoover DAM, and had a very long cord. I also remember Kirby's from 516 to Classic.

 

[earlieone]

My grammar school had an American Lincoln Super Sweep. Of course I would always come back after school and help vacuum the carpets with the janitor. At the time I thought is was a complete piece of junk, always throwing the belt and knocking the cap off. Little did I know it would become a rare machine. I should have grabbed it when it was replaced with a Hoover square hood commercial. Don’t remember what my middle school had. High school had only carpet in the library. My JR year I worked in the library and would occasionally get to vacuum upon the librarians request. They had a Dayton wide track(basically a sanitaire) and a Clarke wide area vacuum. I love the big Clarke and it would drive the librarian crazy that I didn’t grab the “normal” looking vacuum

 

[vinvac]

Our school used Royals for many years. Then they went to Hoover and had many problems. The Royals lasted for 10 years plus, they replaced the Hoover Conquests at least every two years. The very first one they purchased lasted less than six months.

I think they use Windsors now with onboard tools. Our entire building was carpeted at the high school. Grade school had area rugs in each room. They kept the Royals for that building and were still in use when we built the new building in in the mid 90's.

They also had a Hoover Comericial Porta Power that did withstand the test of time.

 

[marks_here]

When I went to school

Elementary school they were using the heavy duty hoover's with the hight control under the machine. In middle school they were using advance, clarke and super-sweep (the dark green ones, some with white outer bag paper bag systems & others with the dump out bags) and in high school they had super-sweep and lincoln. Mark

 

[tylerawells]

For my entire K-12 career, 1999-2011, we used Sanitaire uprights, the red and chrome kind with a headlight. Last year, I lived in an on campus residence hall, and the lady who vacuumed our hallways (which were full carpet), had what appeared to be a SEBO but it was rebadged with the name Tennant. It was very noisy, and I remember I did have classes starting till two in the afternoon, and sometimes I'd be asleep when she came down the hall, and got the thing right up by my door and it woke me up. I now have an apartment which is medium carpet everywhere - and I use an Oreck Graphite for it.

 

[anthony]

vacs in school

there were no carpets in my school however ther was a vacuum cleaner it was a huge thing the size of a oil drun with two motors on top with wheels and a handle [rather ilke a pram would have]the hose was about twice the length of a normal vac wish i could remember the name that was on the front it was a very quiet machine even with both motors running

 

[kenkart]

Believe it or not!

When I was in first grade, 1971, my school had a few carpeted rooms, The first time i saw the vacuum I was dumbfounded, I had never seen a Kenmore upright but there it was,, a new hardbody Kenmore!!!

 

[tolivac]

In the schools I attended don't remember what vacuums were there-they had hard tile floors.Janitors dry mopped the floors.

 

[ryry_87]

My nursery had a Hoover Junior 1346a, I remember the bag was so full it had like a huge solid ball of dust in the bottom of it.

then my primary school and secondary had Premiere Mini 175's….

 

[ryry_87]

My primary school also had an Electrolux Professional upright too..

 

[kenkart]

Oh MY!!!!

That green and chrome vac pictured above....I wish something like that would appear over here!!!!

 

[ryry_87]

Its a Premiere Mini 175

They're a small commercial vac made by a company called Premiere Products in Cheltenham, England

They've been making the Mini since 1975, you can still buy them new but they look a little different now and are blue instead of green. Mines an old one

If you click on the link it'll take you to the Premiere website


http://www.premierproducts.co.uk/ma...ge=flypage.tpl&product_id=1027&category_id=95

 

[ryry_87]

heres a link to a youtube video of my premiere mini in action

 

[uksausage]

my schools

i do remember at primary school we had a hoover commercial but it was missing a wheel at the back, there was also a hoover junior 1334 then everything got changed to these random black tub style vacuums that looked like darlicks the tools were almost lux like i never did find out what they were, they were also at my secondary school there was around 20 of them at secondary school,then slowly Victor tub cleaners started to make an appearance they were used mostly in the science labs
there were never any henrys

 

[ilovehoovers]

I've been to many schools over the years...

At my nursery in the Channel Islands there was a push-button Henry, likely an HVR200-22 but possibly a UDS. That broke at some point and we gifted them a new Henry, which (iirc) was blue! That was very exciting for me - a brand new Henry! I still remember the day the headmistress unboxed it.

After moving to England I remember my first primary school had a UDS rocker-style Henry, which I got to use myself once! Upon switching to a better school, I found they also had UDS Henrys, a mixture of them and 'Numatic's of the same era.

And at my final secondary school (not too long ago!) they had Henry 200s, many with assorted Wessel-Werk floorheads and mismatched aluminium and stainless steel tubes. I assume their supplier found the Wessel-Werk heads cheaper to sell than the official Numatic ones, even though they're the same, as there'd be no other reason to have OEM branded floorheads.

 

[superocd]

My school used Sanitaire uprights

The whirring of the 7amp Sanitaire "metal" motor, "vrrrrr-gasp" as the custodian pushed the vacuum across the library carpet, then temporarily let it up to break the suction, signified the end of the school day. He started in the library at 2:40. By 3, we were boarding the busses and he started in the classrooms. I think that may be a big reason why I love Sanitaires.

 

[justjunque]

That’s funny. Despite being interested in vacuums for as long as I can remember, I have no memory of ever seeing one in any of the schools I attended.
Granted, the vast majority of the flooring was those big square tiles like in department/grocery stores. But, I remember the libraries being carpeted, and maybe the teachers’ lounge. There must have been a vacuum on hand for those areas.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Our Catholic school

had HIGHLY polished tile floors, everywhere but the office.  They used a household Eureka!


The first school I taught in had recently flooded.  They carpeted the entire school. And, each classroom had its own Hoover Convertible (Gold tone, floral bag).


 Another school, each room had a Dirt Devil light (tiny Royal knockoff) .Another school (the one that had that horrible fire), had a Eureka canned ham, and a Convertible, and a Guardsman.


All the rest had Hoover Convertibles.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

The seminary

has(had) 2 Convertibles upstairs in the suites, and the rest of the building, (foyers, etc) used Guardsman Hoovers.