Re-The Spencer Turbine
Hi! I just wanted to put in a plug for your Spencer tubine; If you are selling it on e-bay, you might want to put it under the category of "Pipe Organs", "Organs", or Musical Instruments. I know that sometimes your type of vacuum there is used to drive automaton band organs and sometimes used in larger Wurlitzer theatre pipe organs to help drive the tremulants. It is practically the same blower as spencer made for pipe organs but on a larger scale...but there are some organ restorers out there. I'll mention it around the Theatre organ community. The great theatre organist from the forties, Stan Kahn, had over four thousands vacuum cleaners in his collection and he apeared on the tonight show with one or two vacuums that he included in comedy skits--where he would keep getting his shirt tail or his tuxedo tails sucked into one of the vacuums: Johnny Carson and the audience loved it! Maybe he is your long lost ancestor! You are a very remarkable person....and I can just imagine what wonderful things you will do!
