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Just a little geographical and historical addition to this story: 


The history of Fantom Technologies is related to the Iona/Regina vacuum factory that was located in Welland, Ontario which is not more than an hour drive from the US/Canadian border, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, New York. 


This was the Canadian factory that produced all our Regina "bagless" Electrikbrooms with the dust-cup.  Not sure why or when the transition occured,  but at some point Regina went under and the Canadian Iona subsidiary decided to re-invent itself by buying the Canadian rights to the British Dyson cyclonic system.  So the plant in Welland, Ontario became the launching pad for the Fantom Cyclonic vacs that were sold all over North America until they went bankrupt.  That's how the bagless dustcup Electrikbroom evolved into the Fantom bagless upright vac.


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