my new finds Fakir 350, Hoover Portable and Miele S126
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You are doing very well at the moment and at such good prices
The Fakir has a resemblence to the Electrolux 152/160/170, although with a bag of course rather than a hard box. Do you know of any connection with Electrolux. I think Hans too has spotted the resemblence too as we have discussed how like the Lux the Regina model was. What is the brushroll like please? Is it perhaps a single brush strip on one side with a single beater bar on the other?
From the label on the Hoover portable I am guessing that it may have started life in the UK. We had only three models here to my knowledge. The first was identical to yours only in a pale green colour scheme. This is very rare indeed although I think that SeamusUk has one. There are two varities of the brown and pumpkin type - like yours with no self winding cord (I have one the same) and the other with a self winding cord is is actually a more practical style as I find with mine the cores inside the cord tend to get twisted up.
The Miele seems to have been a very long lasting model (although stick vacuums seem to be much more common in Europe than here) - the crop up on ebay here quite often (always in pale green) although I have no recollection ever seeing them in a shop on sale. Recently there was one with a power nozzle, the first time I have seen that arrangement - usually they just have the standard floor tool, a competitor for Vorwerk perhaps.
Great new finds, thank you for sharing them with us
Al
You are doing very well at the moment and at such good prices
The Fakir has a resemblence to the Electrolux 152/160/170, although with a bag of course rather than a hard box. Do you know of any connection with Electrolux. I think Hans too has spotted the resemblence too as we have discussed how like the Lux the Regina model was. What is the brushroll like please? Is it perhaps a single brush strip on one side with a single beater bar on the other?
From the label on the Hoover portable I am guessing that it may have started life in the UK. We had only three models here to my knowledge. The first was identical to yours only in a pale green colour scheme. This is very rare indeed although I think that SeamusUk has one. There are two varities of the brown and pumpkin type - like yours with no self winding cord (I have one the same) and the other with a self winding cord is is actually a more practical style as I find with mine the cores inside the cord tend to get twisted up.
The Miele seems to have been a very long lasting model (although stick vacuums seem to be much more common in Europe than here) - the crop up on ebay here quite often (always in pale green) although I have no recollection ever seeing them in a shop on sale. Recently there was one with a power nozzle, the first time I have seen that arrangement - usually they just have the standard floor tool, a competitor for Vorwerk perhaps.
Great new finds, thank you for sharing them with us
Al
