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[aeoliandave]

You are correct about the strike situation that brought Super J's to Canada, Mike.



What I'd like to know is if the Canadian Super J had an American style hose coupler or was fitted with the larger diameter Canadian one?
Doug Smith will have the answers.

The non-green hose with Zach's 89 is a later dealer replacement using saran braided hose stock from the AP series but factory fitted with the ball bearing coupler, shield and pigtail unique to the 80 series and cast in beige plastic. That hose has a yellowish cast to it and I know Pete has a bannana yellow AP, but I don't recall the model number. But I do know the plastic tools and PN are a matching yellow.
I think the dark tracer line on the yellow hose is a dark blue?
Dave

 

[aeoliandave]

Canadian APs are immediately identifiable at a distance by the side profile V shape of the bag door.
Another interesting note from Doug - On all Canadian machines (up to the 2100 at which time production was moved to the United States) you can determine the manufacture date from the serial number. Eg: if it is an 89 made from 1967 to 1973, and the first number is 1, then it was made in 1971. Same applies to the AP series 1973 thru 1984.

Don't remember where I snagged this picture but it shows a healthy lineup of Canadian AP models.

Collect them all.

Dave

 

[andken23]

re super j

my grandmother had a super j from 1974-1988 i still got the parts to it and i still use them on my current luxes.

 

[goadie12]

ok i guess i was wron i now learned somthing new today ya i guess they were sold during the time of the ap 200 thats why the ap200s are are some what hard to find.

 

[collector2]

LOL - time for me to pop in I guess.

The first power hose for the 89 was a very dark green with a gold tracer, metal vacuum end and dark green handle. It was sold as an optional accessory. When they started to sell them with the machines it was changed to the green hose with white tracer and lime plastic ends. Any other colours are later replacement hoses.

As for the Super J it was sold in Canada when the plant went on strike during the production of the AP200's around 1977. Thats why there are so few 200's around and there was never a drop down model of the 200 made.

Incidentally we got alot of the US garbage at that time as they sent us very few new machines. Most of what was sent up to Canada was demonstrators that were pulled from all the different branches in the US. Consequently we had 1205's Golden J's and SuperJ's all at once, alot of which didnt have the correct parts with them (Thats why you will see alot of the Golden J's with Blue parts here - they reoutfitted them with what ever the branch had in stock just so they could get rid of them). The salesmen were furious at being told they had to sell someone elses junk.

The funniest part of it was they sent this stuff all out to the branches then realized they werent CSA certified so they had to actually pay for a CSA inspector to go around to all the branches and do the certification, even on the ones they had already sold.

There have also been other US and English models sold in Canada. The first one that I know of is the English model 24 which was sold as a drop down model for the Model 12 in 1934/5. The first US one that I know of was the model LX (an experiment to see how the new idea of disposable bags would go over) then the AE (same reason but sold in Canada with a full set of parts rather than the dual parts which were only sold on the "cheap" model here).

The next one was the English model 48 which was sold in the 50's when the factory here was once again on strike. The 1205, Golden J and Super J mentioned above were the last ones sold here untill free trade saw the loss of most manufacturing in Canada.

Think that about covers it

Doug