I'm sure the sales pitch and the marketing was "so you don't
have to get your big cannister cleaner out to pick up on the
kitchen carpet" Like Jim said, with carpet being sold for
everywhere and Lots a cannister and tanks still around from
pre 60's homes with rugs and hard floors. The idea of light
weight and not the old fashioned Bissell for daily pick up.
Eureka, Sears and GE all had one.
Didn't Compact have a machine like that in the 60's too?
Rather then an electric power nozzle?
Norm
You'd think I would be the one to remember that answer?