Numatic Cream and brown Charles!

[ultimatevacman]

Look at this!!!

A cream and brown numatic charles!

I have never seen one of these before,

numatic sent me this photo,

It looks awesome!

- Joe

 

[vintagerepairer]

Another of Numatic phases was the brown & beige ranges of standard models. They didn't last for very long. This was late 1980's. I am not sure who they were trying to appeal to either.

 

[james]

Never seen a cream and brown charles in that particular model, thanks for sharing, must be from 1989/1990 ish.

Here is the earlier model in cream and brown, with the square based bucket, and it uses 4 castor wheels. Need the normal blue one now!

 

[ultimatevacman]

Hi James,

Wow I like your cream and brown charles,

are you mrxr2 on youtube?

and is that aa cream and brown henry?

Thanks,

- Joe

 

[james]

Thanks, I can't seem to get them strange marks off the bucket
This model is "bagless" as the inlet tube inside the bucket is square, whereas the Henry has a circular one. The filter is quite a thick cloth, also the float assemble cannot be removed from the base of the motor unit similar to an Aquamaster or similar.

Yep that is a cream and brown Henry. I have another in better condition somewhere.
They do come up on ebay every then and again, but the Charles not quite so much, and the James, well I've never seen the cream and brown James! Only in a brochure.

I am indeed mrxr2, or mr_xr2 as it should be, but YouTube wouldn't allow the "_", sigh...

 

[turbo500]

^you think his Youtube vids are good Joe, you should see his XTube ones

 

[vintagerepairer]

I have a feeling that it may be a wet-only Charles, designed for industry, such as around swimming pools and other areas where a wet vac is in constant use. The Structafoam bases were certainly not targeted at the domestic market either.

 

[vintagerepairer]

What is Xtube?

 

[turbo500]

What is Xtube?

an amateur porn website. 


 


It was a joke, that failed slightly. 

 

[vintagerepairer]

It is ok gentlemen, I just looked on google. I know now.

 

[turbo500]

I just looked on google

don't take your computer for repair any time soon

 

[vintagerepairer]

I have heard that line before. But where?

 

[vintagerepairer]

I have remembered it now. A group of us went to see some ladies known as Fascinating Aida. Rather amusing I thought.

 

[turbo500]

Fascinating Aida are AMAZING. The line you're thinking of is from "Dogging" where Dillie Keane suggests googling the term to find the meaning, followed by "just don't take your computer for repair immediately afterwards..."

 

[jmurray01]

Goodness gracious! Four castors? That would be rather difficult to manage. One tug and it'd be crashing into everything.

 

[ultimatevacman]

Turbo500,

I'm not gay! lol

but yeah the four casters thing must be annoying.

- Joe

 

[turbo500]

^Joe, I never said you were...I was winding James up lo

 

[ultimatevacman]

^Oh ok, haha

 

[ultimatevacman]

Does anyone know what this is?

 

[dysondestijl]

i believe it was a very limited edition numatic sold for car valeters, but where of course not popular so quickly replaced by another model.

 

[ultimatevacman]

It's kinda funny because my username is 'ultimateVacMan' lol

 

[ultimatevacman]

What do you think this is?

- Joe

 

[rutger]

Hi

I've seen that pic' of a "Bernie" before.

Is it a proper Numatic model or one that somebody has made up themselves? The writing etc look a bit home-made.

Cheers

Dave

 

[dysondestijl]

now you mention it i agree with rutger......

 

[ultimatevacman]

"Is it a proper Numatic model or one that somebody has made up themselves? The writing etc look a bit home-made. "

That's what I was thinking.

 

[vintagerepairer]

You will see this is an older cleaner, although I accept that the BX BX cleaner looks newer. However, I was given to understand that for a period of time Numatic were branding cleaners to suit the shops which sold them or the companies which used them, if the orders were great enough.

 

[ultimatevacman]

Do you think bernie was made for a company?

 

[rutger]

Hello
I can understand that Numatic used to make machines for companies/shops (I must confess I didn't know that already, so thanks for the info' vintagerepairer).
It's just that the Bernie one looks so badly done, i've seen the BX BX ones etc & they look professionally made. The Bernie shown above looks like it was done with insulation tape. Are there any other pics of these around as that's the only "Bernie" picture i've ever seen?
Cheers
Dave

 

[ultimatevacman]

yeah if anyone has any more photo's of it we would really appreciate it if you would share them,

Thanks

- Joe