supertrouper
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vax/vacs/short names
hi there
just reading with interest the discussion of shortened-names....i must be honest it doesnt both me one way or the other, certainly i'd sooner hear a vacuum refered to as a 'vac' as opposed to a 'Hoover' because in many cases the 'Hoover' is in fact not a Hoover.
As for Vax, i am intrigued to hear that it is Dirt Devil equipment. Vax was a UK company originally, producing a range of cleaners that could wash as well as vacuum up wet or dry debris. This was a first for the UK, at least so far as domestic machines were concerned.
The UK public went into a frenzy over them, will sales peaking in the late 1980's. Unfortunatly Vax cleaners lost thier popularity in the early 90's onwards as there was a lot of competition, plus a lot of folk never bothered to use it to wash carpets, so ifi t broke they just bought an ordinary vac. Sorry i mean vacuum cleaner.
Vax bought out a range of uprights that would wash, but these had numerous manufacturing faults and were very bulky. As such they never caught on. Eventually Vax had to start making ordinary cleaners in order to stay in business. This began with the 'wizard' which was a bagless dry-only version of the wet/dry/wash machine. As time went on production shifted abroad, and then they started bringing out all these crappy generic upright and cylinder cleaners that simply bore the Vax name. The original Vax was a good quality cleaner and in the UK was known as such - by contrast they are now regarded as cheap junk. Pity.
Stephen
hi there
just reading with interest the discussion of shortened-names....i must be honest it doesnt both me one way or the other, certainly i'd sooner hear a vacuum refered to as a 'vac' as opposed to a 'Hoover' because in many cases the 'Hoover' is in fact not a Hoover.
As for Vax, i am intrigued to hear that it is Dirt Devil equipment. Vax was a UK company originally, producing a range of cleaners that could wash as well as vacuum up wet or dry debris. This was a first for the UK, at least so far as domestic machines were concerned.
The UK public went into a frenzy over them, will sales peaking in the late 1980's. Unfortunatly Vax cleaners lost thier popularity in the early 90's onwards as there was a lot of competition, plus a lot of folk never bothered to use it to wash carpets, so ifi t broke they just bought an ordinary vac. Sorry i mean vacuum cleaner.
Vax bought out a range of uprights that would wash, but these had numerous manufacturing faults and were very bulky. As such they never caught on. Eventually Vax had to start making ordinary cleaners in order to stay in business. This began with the 'wizard' which was a bagless dry-only version of the wet/dry/wash machine. As time went on production shifted abroad, and then they started bringing out all these crappy generic upright and cylinder cleaners that simply bore the Vax name. The original Vax was a good quality cleaner and in the UK was known as such - by contrast they are now regarded as cheap junk. Pity.
Stephen
