smow69
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lets see how many diffrent ones ther is of these also
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durango159
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Are you talking strictly Montgomery Wards machines, or machines that are similar to this? If you are talking similar design then my machine the Eureka 1784B is a dead on!!!!
However there were a few different Montgomery Wards machines. I can think of a teal blue, and bright orange one off top of my head currently. Link below is a youtube video for a gorgeous orange one belonging to another collector. The gorgeous orange model is a high end model with variable speed power control.
However there were a few different Montgomery Wards machines. I can think of a teal blue, and bright orange one off top of my head currently. Link below is a youtube video for a gorgeous orange one belonging to another collector. The gorgeous orange model is a high end model with variable speed power control.
I have one or two Montgomery Ward vacuums
made by HOOVER!
made by HOOVER!
Yes, Eureka made most of the vacuums Wards had sold in the '50s-'80s.
Among them was the SP5030 "Power II" canister vacuum from 1979 which was Wards' version of a Eureka Power Team 1200 series.
This link (not mine) shows a 1985 model SP5074B "Power II" which back then was crossed over to the Eureka Vactronic model 1790B.
~Ben
Among them was the SP5030 "Power II" canister vacuum from 1979 which was Wards' version of a Eureka Power Team 1200 series.
This link (not mine) shows a 1985 model SP5074B "Power II" which back then was crossed over to the Eureka Vactronic model 1790B.
~Ben
smow69
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montgomery wards
i have a convertible model and am trying to find out about it so wards only please but thanks for pic of cool eureka
i have a convertible model and am trying to find out about it so wards only please but thanks for pic of cool eureka
kirbyluxhoover
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Wards Power II
I have the same Wards Power II that was my grand parents. I got it back in 2008 when it was her old vac in the closet so I offered to take it and recycle it for her. They bought it when they lived in Houston. Does anyone know what year or years that model was made? Also if anyone has the book for it?
All I have had to do to it was replace the power nozzle motor. Should I do anything else to keep it going good?
I have the same Wards Power II that was my grand parents. I got it back in 2008 when it was her old vac in the closet so I offered to take it and recycle it for her. They bought it when they lived in Houston. Does anyone know what year or years that model was made? Also if anyone has the book for it?
All I have had to do to it was replace the power nozzle motor. Should I do anything else to keep it going good?
super-sweeper
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John,
While you may have 2 Montgomery HOOVERS, don't forget about your 9 Montgomery EUREKAS!
While you may have 2 Montgomery HOOVERS, don't forget about your 9 Montgomery EUREKAS!
Those were some of teh best vacuums and would outclean many other brands of the day! You put the vibra groomer 1 or 2 along with good airflow and you will out clean most other vacuums.
Speaking of Wards vacuums, did the chain ever put its own name on the Royal Dirt Devil hand vacuum?
The fact is, I know they did so with the all-metal "Prince" hand vacuum back in the late 1950s/early 1960s, but I've yet to see if they did the same for the Dirt Devil in 1985.
~Ben
The fact is, I know they did so with the all-metal "Prince" hand vacuum back in the late 1950s/early 1960s, but I've yet to see if they did the same for the Dirt Devil in 1985.
~Ben
hygiene903
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Don't Forget Westinghouse!
They built several vacuums for Wards, and many other appliances as well. The big wheel cannister and the upright of the late 50's are a couple that come to mind. And when I worked on the dryer floor at Westinghouse in 1977, about one in every five dryers going down the line were for Wards.
Jeff
They built several vacuums for Wards, and many other appliances as well. The big wheel cannister and the upright of the late 50's are a couple that come to mind. And when I worked on the dryer floor at Westinghouse in 1977, about one in every five dryers going down the line were for Wards.
Jeff
MY 9 Eurekas??!!!
You must be DYING for a slap!!
No kidney for you..... lolol
You must be DYING for a slap!!
No kidney for you..... lolol
smow69
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montgomery wards by hoover
here is mine does anyone know when it was made? I think my grandma purchased in 1985..............
here is mine does anyone know when it was made? I think my grandma purchased in 1985..............
dirtmaster37
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Montgomery Ward vacuums
That is My Wards electronic in the video above. I was given that machine by a friend in Indiana who had it at his vacuum store. I kinda went gaga over it as it was the first one I had seen since I last saw it (when new) in 1984-85. I was a BIG Wards kid, mainly because Wards was in our mall, and the vacuum guy there Mr. French did NOT care one BIT that I played with them. Well normally, he did not.
When I of course used it, and clearly, after vacuuming a large portion of the store with it; felt I couldn't leave it (even at cost), I asked how much he wanted for it. And, he said.."It's yours.."!!!
The two video's of it, were the week after I received it. IT's a FABULOUS vacuum cleaner. And as has been said, there were very FEW vacuums at the time that were as right as this one was. Stump pulling suction, and a powernozzle that could rival any upright. Sadly, the filtration wasn't the hottest, but no one cared really in 1985 yet about HEPA bags and filters.
In historical perspective, Monty- Wards was kinda spotty on who would make their vacuums for them, unlike Sears who used either Birtman Electric (nee' Whirlpool post 57", and Singer thru most of it's existence).
To what I've gathered thru LOTS of catalog surfing, throughout the 1930's and early 40's, Wards machines were mfg'd by Apex Electric in Cleveland Ohio. And had several upright models, and a hand vacuum. If they DID have a canister at this time, I'm not even remotely sure who made it. Maybe a cylinder by Apex? Never seen one in the catalogs so....that doesn't mean one did NOT exist.
Post-War 1947 ish ,on ; they used Eureka (uprights and canisters),thru about 1955-56. There may have been some Apex models in there too. Possibly built after the Strato Cleaner that Apex built. I am quite sure that Wards did NOT use any of Apex's uprights then, but I could be wrong.
Then for whatever their reasoning they switched to Westinghouse for 1957 thru the early 60's, using for a few years the Westinghouse upright, and canister line; but at some point the uprights went BACK to Eureka, by about 1961.
By the mid 60's they were back to Eureka only, and that relationship continued thru the years, where slowly HOOVER model vacuums, like the Quick Brooms (Jiffy vac's), the Dial-A-Matic PowerDrive (Wards Auto-Drive 870 ), and the Porta-Power (cant remember right now what wards called it) appeared by the mid 1970's.
BY the time Electric Avenue appeared, there was no WARDS (Signature) brand anymore, nor no useful effort to hide who made what.
A final thought, the machine above was replaced by the new European look (Eureka Express) models a year later.... The square "B" bag body machines only had about two years as Wards TOL model, sandwiched in-between the Canned Ham bodies, and the later Express styles...
Anyway, a few thoughts for you all...
That is My Wards electronic in the video above. I was given that machine by a friend in Indiana who had it at his vacuum store. I kinda went gaga over it as it was the first one I had seen since I last saw it (when new) in 1984-85. I was a BIG Wards kid, mainly because Wards was in our mall, and the vacuum guy there Mr. French did NOT care one BIT that I played with them. Well normally, he did not.
When I of course used it, and clearly, after vacuuming a large portion of the store with it; felt I couldn't leave it (even at cost), I asked how much he wanted for it. And, he said.."It's yours.."!!!
The two video's of it, were the week after I received it. IT's a FABULOUS vacuum cleaner. And as has been said, there were very FEW vacuums at the time that were as right as this one was. Stump pulling suction, and a powernozzle that could rival any upright. Sadly, the filtration wasn't the hottest, but no one cared really in 1985 yet about HEPA bags and filters.
In historical perspective, Monty- Wards was kinda spotty on who would make their vacuums for them, unlike Sears who used either Birtman Electric (nee' Whirlpool post 57", and Singer thru most of it's existence).
To what I've gathered thru LOTS of catalog surfing, throughout the 1930's and early 40's, Wards machines were mfg'd by Apex Electric in Cleveland Ohio. And had several upright models, and a hand vacuum. If they DID have a canister at this time, I'm not even remotely sure who made it. Maybe a cylinder by Apex? Never seen one in the catalogs so....that doesn't mean one did NOT exist.
Post-War 1947 ish ,on ; they used Eureka (uprights and canisters),thru about 1955-56. There may have been some Apex models in there too. Possibly built after the Strato Cleaner that Apex built. I am quite sure that Wards did NOT use any of Apex's uprights then, but I could be wrong.
Then for whatever their reasoning they switched to Westinghouse for 1957 thru the early 60's, using for a few years the Westinghouse upright, and canister line; but at some point the uprights went BACK to Eureka, by about 1961.
By the mid 60's they were back to Eureka only, and that relationship continued thru the years, where slowly HOOVER model vacuums, like the Quick Brooms (Jiffy vac's), the Dial-A-Matic PowerDrive (Wards Auto-Drive 870 ), and the Porta-Power (cant remember right now what wards called it) appeared by the mid 1970's.
BY the time Electric Avenue appeared, there was no WARDS (Signature) brand anymore, nor no useful effort to hide who made what.
A final thought, the machine above was replaced by the new European look (Eureka Express) models a year later.... The square "B" bag body machines only had about two years as Wards TOL model, sandwiched in-between the Canned Ham bodies, and the later Express styles...
Anyway, a few thoughts for you all...
dirtmaster37
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Your Hoover-Montgomery Wards
That seems to be about right 1985-86. I think the first Convertible re-badge came in 1983, and the hood was the same cream color as the rest of the machine. Im sure it later came in the color you have, which would denote a year change. Its a nice machine to be sure.Not many of those out there anymore!!
That seems to be about right 1985-86. I think the first Convertible re-badge came in 1983, and the hood was the same cream color as the rest of the machine. Im sure it later came in the color you have, which would denote a year change. Its a nice machine to be sure.Not many of those out there anymore!!
smow69
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this vac
this vac had a creme hood it got broke in the move so i put a brown hood on it its all i had.
this vac had a creme hood it got broke in the move so i put a brown hood on it its all i had.
smow69
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super-sweeper
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John-
Let's hope I Don't need that kidney, then!
to cheer you up, this is my Wards Porta-Power! That's a true HOOVER under that lovely badge!
Let's hope I Don't need that kidney, then!
to cheer you up, this is my Wards Porta-Power! That's a true HOOVER under that lovely badge!
John and Alex,
And here's a dated eBay picture of the later Wards Portapower (circa 1983) in blue, the last such model Wards ever sold since the chain would later append its name to a variation of the Eureka Mighty Mite.
~Ben
And here's a dated eBay picture of the later Wards Portapower (circa 1983) in blue, the last such model Wards ever sold since the chain would later append its name to a variation of the Eureka Mighty Mite.
~Ben
Wards Mighty Mite
Here's the Wards Mighty Mite. Being red and having a motor rating of 2.0 peak HP (per VCMA), it appears to be based on the Eureka model 3120.
~Ben
Here's the Wards Mighty Mite. Being red and having a motor rating of 2.0 peak HP (per VCMA), it appears to be based on the Eureka model 3120.
~Ben
