It is amazing the things one remembers once a memory is probed. So I will throw this one into the melting pot. A Hoover Turbopower 2, same as model U2462 (but please don't ask me the specific model number!). 700 watts. Large diameter hose. No bag full lamp. No piston bag full indicator. Deep red in colour (similar if not same colour as U2876). All lettering identical to that of the cleaners of the mid-1990's era, with the writing on the cleaner head being in the middle and not right hand side. I am guessing this was some sort of exclusive line.
The reason this cleaner stuck in my mind was because I once had one brought in for repair. Essentially it was the same as any other blocked-up cleaner, only this one must have been used for god knows how long, as the bag door had a split running top to bottom down the middle of the bag door. It must have occured when the cleaner was sucking the door in as result of being blocked. Anyway, the cheapest option for everyone (including me) would have been to sell the owner a 2nd hand bag door, which I was willing to do but I had nothing in that red colour. I found a grey door and that would not have bothered me if I was the customer, nor would it have bothered a great many people. But you guessed it, it bothered this woman.
She was not an unpleasant lady, but she was sure as sure can be she wanted the right colour door. Considering that her machine was amongst the most basic Turbopower I have ever seen to this day, I can't imagine she paid a lot for it when new. But despite this, she paid the full amount (whatever it was) for me to get her the right brand new bag door. Which ever happy to please, I got for her.
