Btw, looking at the vacuums hood, I am betting it used the same headlight lense that Powermates of that vintage used, in which case you can still obtain new ones from Sears.
What is funny about Sears is that you can have the same part, same form fit and function but it will have slightly different part numbers for different models. While the part might be shown as NLA for your vac, you can find the same part is avaiable with a slightly different part number for another vac of that series. This was true of the headlight lense I needed for an old Powermate.
