Mystery Lamb ametek 115250 Motor

[camelotshadow]

Hey Dr Lux

Found the brushes for the motor listed for a central vac

Also says the brushes were used in 50's 60' & 70's
on Airway, Compact Eureka Filter Queen etc...

So did they have central vacs in 60's?


Your speculation about the central vac use might be right...




http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Lamb-Va...ryZ43521QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[danemodsandy]

Central Vacs....

....Were definitely around in the '60s. My mom's best friend has a house she and her late husband had custom-built in 1966. Larry liked to live large, and stuffed the new house full of that year's latest and greatest. There was a central vac system, a Talk-A-Phone intercom system with AM-FM radio, a GE frost-free fridge with icemaker, a self-cleaning oven, central air, and lots more. An Amana Radarange (damn near science fiction at the time) followed soon after the house was built. The '60s weren't the caveman era many people today think. Some of the technology wasn't as slick as today's, but there was tech aplenty.

 

[camelotshadow]

yaba daba doo

lol

True,

Still would be sort of uncommon

 

[danemodsandy]

Sort of Uncommon?

Christine, that house was the talk of the area that year, and it's a very well-heeled area. In the '60s, most people had some "space-age" conveniences, but very few people had them all, like this family did. For a lot of people, air conditioning was a window unit in the bedroom. Dishwashers were top-loading, and you rolled them to the sink. Many, many people were still defrosting refrigerators, cleaning ovens by hand, etc.
Having more than one TV set in a household was not common.

Different time.

 

[camelotshadow]

They had stuff
wasn't the dark ages

Had computers too but they weren't in personal market.

My grandmother had a color tv in the late 50's
Must have been one of the first

We were struggling to eat & fix the house & money was tight so we didn't even have a tv til 67 & it was B&W.

They had one when I was a baby
Said I loved the mickey mouse club
there;s a pic of me somewhere in a mmc shirt dancing on the sofa but I don;t rememeber

Remember Batman at grandmas as it was so animated.

My grandparents even had a AC think late 50's

we got it in the 70's when they got a new one as it still worked
Huge rounded tan metal monster


There was radio
so besides going to grandmas I never really watched tv.

Still have dreams of Grandmas house

No space age house
it was built in early 1900's & cost $2000 or so

My mom was born there in 1929

We ended up buying a house around the corner with the same address

Hows that for Karma

the old pre 1900 house a shell that was rented out & had iron ducts in the floor where they heated

Took Dad a while to get it fixed up on nights & weekends
Most of the houses around us were same
No new fangled space age neighborhood

Well Fed Ex didn't update there tracking today as scheduled
So as I thought old bronze G may not make it for Friday the 13th

LOL

 

[lux1521]

I doubt the tracking info will be updated until it arrives. For some reason shipping services start slacking off on the tracking data as the item approches its destination.

 

[collector2]

Just popping in with a bit of info. Central Vacs date back to the early 1900's. We have a number of houses here in Moose Jaw from the 1908 - 1920's eras that still have the original central vac plumbing in them (Unfortunately not the original vacuums). Alot have had new machines simply adapted to the pipe as the hose outlet fits the new hoses.

 

[camelotshadow]

How big would it have to be?
It not much bigger than a reg vac motor

Just curious
The thing works
Its Lamb ametek
Just don't know wha to do with it