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Hello. Well as I've said on your other thread (it's no longer listed so you may not have seen so) the turbopower 2 and turbopower 1000 went on sale in 1992. It was Hoover's first clean-fan upright since the UK Convertible. I cannot tell you hand on heart how many cleaners there were initially in each range, other than to mention the three which i first saw. These were Turbopower 2 in navy blue, and Turbopower 2 with autosense. Both cleaners were 800 watts.


The Turbopower 1000 I know of was a dark colour, be it green or blue, I forget, and had autosense and the permabag system2 dust box. There were more models though. This cleaner was advertised widely on TV. It will always be a source of iterest to me as to why Hoover put both the 2 and 1000 on sale together as I can see no point. The first change to the Turbopower 2 (and I cannot say whether or not this change applied to the Turbopower 1000 as I have seen so very few of them) was when Hoover fitted a long crevice tool inside the extention tube, as well as keeping the small crevice tool, so in effect the cleaners had a 5-piece tool kit including the tube. Also some models had a piston bag-full indicator in the bag door, but that was taken off as well.


The second change was when the Turbopower 1000 was superseeded by the Turbopower 3 in late 1994/early 1995. The Turbopower 3 had a 1000 watt motor, and had a wide diameter hose. Previous cleaners had used the narrow hose off the Turbopower/Turbomaster total cleaners and were forever blocking up. In fact the narrow hose was totally unsuitable for a clean-fan system that relied on the on-board hose as part of the upright cleaning function. As well as this, the hose on the Turbopower 3 was longer and hooked to the handle of the machine. As this would have interfered with the flex as it entered the cleaner, the entry point for all cleaners -Turbopower 2 and 3- was moved to the top of the cleaner instead of the rear. At some point the small crevice tool was taken of the machine but I cannot tell you when.


The Turbopower 3 went on until early 1997, when the PurePower went on sale. But the Turbopower 2 carried on well into the early 2000s, where Hoover reverted to the narrow hose for some reason that I don't know about.


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