Thank you Ronni.
If you don't know this, the reason the model LX is so special to me was the lady who owned it. I was only 2 years old, and thought the ejection process was great.
However, the interest began with the model XXX, though I was too young to know it. My grandparents claim that my first word was vac-um, and that's recorded in a book of my first year. (1950). The woman who had the model LX fed the interest, and fueled the obsession. Add to this, my grandfather worked for a boys boarding school, and let me play in the storerooms where the discarded Electrolux, Hoover, and Kirby machines were kept.
My interest in history of the vacuum cleaner taught me early that facts are not alweays right. Especially the various vacuum cleaner companies, because they don't concernn themselves with history, it's tomorrows sales, new designs, and so on. So for me, digging research was a major problem. Result, I tell what I feel is correct, and am quick to correct something if I find a fact is wrong!
And this was the reason the V.C.C.C. was created, to provide a place for those with the interest to vent. When I was a kid, very few people were interested in hearing about my obsession, so by the age of 31, I had a wealth of useless knowledge. Then I met John Lucia, and finally, I was able to share.
As I say, my research provides a lot of data, but if a book prints the wrong info, I keep it going. Only in the past 30 years have Hoover, Kirby and a few others opened up. In the early days of the V.C.C.C. Electrolux, Kirby and so on couldn't care less. Only Hoover accepted us, but that's for another post.
Contrary to popular belief, I'm NOT an 'expert' in the history of the vacuum cleaner, like others, I'm still learning.
