Look at this ad for a Riccar canister

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that's a nice looking vacuum. Tom Gasko could likely explain when Tacony moved production of the canisters to the US. I don't know which components are sourced and which are made in the US. I do know that Tacony employs a lot of people in St James, Missouri to assemble vacuums. Hopefully as they introduce newer models they will incorporate more US produced parts. I applaud Tacony for investing in Tom's vacuum cleaner museum.
 
The vacuum in that ad looks like a current production model Impeccable Premier or Immaculate Premier canister. The original price mentioned in the ad makes me think it is the former. How long has that vacuum been in production for it to have been insourced recently? Are the powered brushes still sourced from China perhaps?
 
I have two of these vacs-will have to look on their powernozzles to where the powernozzles were built.Just remember the canisters were built in Korea.Got both from the former Riccar dealer that was here.The owner died and his widow passed the machines and other ones to me.The models were 1700 and 1800.The 1700 is blue and the 1800 is "copper" like in the picture.Mine were the older stock-be fore they were built in US.Beleive Daewoo built the machines before.They are a major Korean manufactuerer-they built all kinds of things.From guns to machine tools to electronics.
 
Rex, Daewoo also builds cars too, believe it or not! But GM bought the division back a few years ago, thinking around 2007-2008? I remember seeing the Chevrolet Aveo compact cars showing up here in Canada, with the info sheet on the side saying "Daewoo Motor & Technology Corp, South Korea". So whenever the Aveo started production, GM must have bought them the year before & then started preparing for the Aveo's production. Daewoo tried launching their own cars here in Canada, remember seeing the Daewoo Lanos on the streets the odd time, but I don't think they were particularly successful.

Rob
 
I know Daewoo. They are one of these big Asian conglomerates, the Koreans call theirs "chaebol", like Mitsubishi or Kawasaki that make everything from big ships to railway equipment (the subways in Singapore for example run cars made by Kawasaki) to aircraft to cars and trucks to home appliances. Heck, I remember when I was stationed on Diego Garcia back in the mid 1980's (now there is a real garden spot, NOT!) living in a Porta-Camp building in E-Circle complete with open air showers (and you never knew if the Philippina maid would decide to mop out your shower stall while you showering, WTF?, of course those Philippina chicks have seen it all) that the canned tuna sold in the Ships Store wasn't Star Kist or Chicken of the Sea, it was branded Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi canned tuna.

I have a Simplicity S24 coming and it's data tag shows it was made in Korea. So much for the flag waving.
 
Like others have said, Riccar's full size canisters (Impeccable and immaculate)as well as their uprights and full size powerheads are all made in Missouri. I've talked to some reps who have also indicated they are looking to bring production of their smaller machines to the US as well.
 
CAVacTech

No offense, but who cares if the body of the canisters is formed in America & assembled here if they are still using Chinese motors & circuit boards inside? Considering the full-size canisters sell for about the same as what a German-made Miele canister vacuum sells for, NO WAY would I choose a Tacony canister! I'll support a German company ANY DAY before I support a company that sources components from China! If I wanted a China vacuum....and I do have a couple in my collection....I would just go to Wal-Mart.

Rob
 
Wertheim 4410

I found this video showing a motor repair for the Wertheim 4410. This is the same vacuum as the Riccar Starbright, Charisma & Pristine, comes from King Clean in China, just a different name on it. You can see how cheaply made the canister is. And that's not just my opinion, the vac shop owner repairing the vacuum even says it in the video! This video also proves that Riccar uses Chinese made motors & components for their canisters, despite Tom Gasko claiming otherwise in the past.

Rob

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSAOk9SDNFY
 
As has been said so many times, only the top of the line, full sized canisters are assembled in the US. Nobody, especially not Tom Gasko, has ever claimed otherwise, nor has there been a claim that they don't contain Chinese or other Asian made parts. Kirbylux77, you seem to delight is stirring this subject up and attempting to bash Tacony and Tom by making statements that simply are not true. You claim Tom has made claims about these mid sized canisters that have never been made, you attempt to damage his reputation and it is just plain petty.
 
Sure if you read the fine print Tacony acknowledges components are sourced internationally, but that is the fine print. The ad hype from them leaves a less critical consumer with the very strong impression the entire vac is American made. It's not outright fraud, but it's not entirely honest either. Putting American flag themed stickers on machines assembled in Korea, as I have seen, is to me thoroughly dishonest. Tacony draws this sort of criticism by waving the flag so vigorously. They are counting on customers not being critical. It's their tough luck that some of us are. Don't hold it against someone when they call Tacony's BS, which is what it is.

Harley Davidson is just as bad about waving the flag touting how American their bike is while packing them with foreign sourced components, and while Levis uses all kinds of American iconography in their ads touting their California Gold Rush heritage, they don't have a single US assembly plant. I won't buy from them for any reason because they so blatantly misrepresent what they sell. They are shameless liars and Harley only somewhat less so. Wrangler and others don't stoop to this level so while they might not be any more American than Levis, at least they are not lying in their ads.
 
You guys must not

Live in the US almost EVERY product that says Built in the US has globally sourced parts .

Tacony touts the truth and employs MANY Americans who live in the USA they are a great company I used to sell them in my store and will once again when I decide to go back in business plus I own MANY
Tacony products which are quality products held to the highest standards please get your
facts correct and stop bashing a WONDERFUL vacuum company !!!

Dan
 
So we have a sales person upset that some potential consumers are critical of his product and maybe don't believe some of the advertising for that product. It's a perfectly healthy situation. Consumers should be critical and ad hype is almost never to be believed fully. Just because some sales person says it doesn't make it true.

Most of the world haggles price. The US is one of the very few places where people just pay the price on the tag. If you are going to sell something to the public you have to have a tough hide and not dismiss the criticisms of protential customers. Getting mad at consumers because they express doubts about the veracity of ad hype isn't going to help you sell your product. Believe me it won't. Putting little American flag themed stickers on vacuums that say Made in Korea on the data plate isn't helping the cause either. You see something like that and nothing else the firm or the seller can say will be fully believed. Sorry, just the way it is.
 

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