Hotpoint light n easy

[vacbear58]

Torquoise

Robin

You are very lucky as yours is an early variant of the L&E - which was available in pink or torquoise colourways. Could I ask you please to post a picture of the rear of the cleaner too please so we may see the switch assembly which is on the back of the handle.

 

[vacbear58]

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[vintagerepairer]

Is it my failing eyesight, or is the pitch-fork and front cover not larger on the older model?

 

[paulc]

Handy flex storage pocket......

that just jogged my memory. Mum kept the polish, a duster and a stiff hand brush ( for brushing dust away from the skirting board) in the cord storage pocket.

Robin, thanks for the pic of your Hotpoint, haven't seen one in that colour before.

Vacbear,it appears from the advert showing the attachments that they connected straight into the cleaner, similar to a Junior, or have they just missed out the pan converter?

 

[vacbear58]

Pan converter

Paul, they just missed it out

Al

 

[midcenturyfan]

Here is a picture of the switch as requested.

I was very fortunate to be given this machine, along with an earlier Hotpoint Junior, by an elderly friend. I just happened to visit him on the way home from collecting a Hoover.

Regards,

Robin.

 

[uksausage]

love the original

oh my god iu still dont know why i like these so much im loving the early one i do prefer the colour of that one than the green of mine
mine has been stripped and work done on the motor but it sounds awfull it could do with a new motor the height adjuster is buggered as well as was mentioned earlier in this thread it has to be tipped forward for the brush roll to contact the carpet
if anyone has ideas on how to bodge the height adjuster please let me know

WHY OH WHY DID I GET SHOT OF THE ONE I HAD BEFORE IM SUCH A TWAT
im sure there are many of us that have gotten rid of a vacuum and regretted it some time later


the pics of the othe LnE machines are fantastic id love to come across one of the later 80s models

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The Hotpoint L & E on reply #28 looks a bit like a Eureka 1400 Series from the early 1970s.</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Did Hoover and/or Eureka make these for Hotpoint?  Were Hotpoint vacuums ever available here in the USA?</span>

 

[vacbear58]

@ Floor-a-matic

Could you post some pictures of the models you have in mind please. As far as I am aware these cleaners were only manufactured in the UK but we have seen a few cases where very similar cleaners turn up either side of the pond without a direct, known, corrolation between the two suppliers

Al

 

[tazcatsdad]

Hotpoint vacs in the USA

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Floor-a-Matic, I may be completely wrong but as far as I can tell Hotpoint did have at least one or two models available here in the 'States in the early part of the 20th Century (c. 1915). If I'm not mistaken, this predates Hotpoint's association with General Electric. After GE acquired Hotpoint, they (Hotpoint) no longer made vacuums -- the only models made had either the GE or Premier name on them.</span>