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There's something I've always wondered about the hose and rug tool for the Golden Crown.
One of my aunts had one -- I never saw her use the machine -- it was always sitting by a wall in the garage with the hose hanging from a nail above it. The hose was woven green vinyl with light gray tracing.
The rug nozzle was the style with the long curved neck (that was used with both the rug and bare-floor nozzle), which for some odd reason she used with her Kirby 513, connected to the single long gray wand. Don't ask me why! She was a rather tall woman and she had to stoop over and scrape away at the rug with that rug tool.
I've seen other Golden Crowns over the years -- and some ads for it -- that show it with a coiled rubber hose and the rug nozzle with the shorter neck as the older Eureka canisters had.
Then the later green Rotomatic with the aluminum top, and then the later blue and turquoise canisters, had woven vinyl hoses and the rug nozzle with the separate long neck, and other later ones had white coiled hoses with the same long neck floor tools.
So I wonder if the Golden Crown was a "transitional" model where the earlier ones had the older-style attachments and the later ones had the newer-style attachments.
I have a Golden Crown with the woven hose and long-neck rug nozzle. I've had several of them come and go over the years, all of them with that same hose and rug nozzle.
OTOH, didn't the older red and gray Rotomatic have a woven gray vinyl hose, with the short-neck rug nozzle??
