Newly acquired BVC

[ryry_87]

Hi guys, just picked up this unusual BVC, never seen another like it before. It's had a hard life and is a bit tatty, the motor was seized and the switch knackered, however i've rectified this and it runs quite well now. Does anyone remember seeing any of these back in the day?

Unusually, it still has its original tools. I have a brochure scan of another BVC vacuum from 1983 with identical tools.

It needs a good clean!

 

[ryry_87]

pre-cleaning

 

[dysondestijl]

Was this the one on eBay recently with tape around the motor? If so then I was gonna bid on that!!

 

[ryry_87]

as it came

 

[ryry_87]

yep it was lol the filter wasn't in properly which is why it was taped up

 

[ryry_87]

a 1983 brochure, note the tools. I'm guessing mines from around the same time

 

[ryry_87]

one very old motor, seen a few of these in Goblin cylinders

 

[ryry_87]

quite possibly the most worn out floor tool i've seen! replaced the baseplate with a nice new one

 

[ryry_87]

Glad I powered it up with a circuit breaker, this is the modification one of the previous owners had made to bypass the faulty switch. Dodgy as hell!

 

[s31463221]

Oh wow!

That's one dangerous looking "rigging" job to bypass that switch. Please tell me they at least attempted to insulate those bare wire connections rather than just sticking that back inside that case the way it was????

 

[ryry_87]

nope, that was how I found it amazingly enough lol people do amaze me

 

[dysondestijl]

Yeah in the listing the guy said the floor tool was worn out

 

[rugsucker]

BVC

Never saw this.I happened to watch the original S King 'Shining' movie(about 1980)last week and one of the early scenes when closing the hotel for winter shows a large flat top comm vac.Could this be an overgrown US cousin?--Thanks for showing this and others.

 

[ryry_87]

it's quite possible, BVC made a huge range of commercial and industrial cleaners around that time. The most famous film appearance for BVC would probably be the hotel scene in the Return of the Pink Panther movie. I've included a link below

The most common style of BVC seems to be the large industrial ones with the hose on top, theres lots of them left

 

[ryry_87]

they still make the small cylinder, it's got to be one of the longest running commercial cleaners ever. It dates back to the 50s I believe



http://www.bvc.co.uk/commercial.html