oh my god

[vacjwt]

I am shore sum of you have pulled vacuums out of the trash well tonite I put out the trash and looked down the street and omg IIIIIIIIIIII! was runing runing to get that vacuum what vacuum you ask well I dont meen to boast but a hoover model o and it works

 

[convertible68]

Post a picture of it. Also, check the nameplate, it should give you a location of manufacture...where in Ohio was it made?

 

[vacjwt]

dont have a camra that will work with my hp and the bag is mising what was the bag made of Id love to make a good copy

 

[vacuumboy95]

how much do you want for that.I'll give you anything for it.

 

[vacjwt]

it is not for sale

 

[convertible68]

Where's your PROOF? You don't need a camera to read a nameplate and find out the city in which it was made...

 

[vacjwt]

canton ohio why so importiant

 

[vacuumkid3]

I think what he is saying is that it isn't everyday that someone finds a model O in the trash. After all, they are one of the most sought after vacuums in vacuum history!

~~K~~

 

[vacjwt]

by the way how many difrent locatons were thair sory for my bad spelling

 

[myhooverco]

Hey if it is a real Hoover model "O" from 1908 then it would say New Berlin as the place of manufacture not Canton, Ohio. You may have some other model. New Berlin became North Canton in 1919. What else does your nameplate say? The motor plate would say Westinghouse. A model "O" is a rare item!!!

--Tom

 

[vacjwt]

maby it is not a o than it looks like hoover made the motor plate is not westinghouse it is hoover I have looked at sum picthers of model o vacuums on line tonite and mine looks a litle more boxy than a model o did hoover make models that can be mistaken for the model o and what were thay I need your help
thank you guys john tyminski

 

[vintagehoover]

It's very hard to indentify such a machine without a photograph unless you give us a more detailed description - if you go to my website (I'll post a link below), have a look through and see if it looks like any of the ones shown there. Most machines from Model O through to Model 160 are covered.

Also, for anyone else who's interested, I've added some very interesting patent drawings to the 'Design Development' page, and to the '1908-19' page.

http://www.freewebs.com/vintagehoover/

 

[electrolux1960]

Re: Hey! John, vacjwt:

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who is objecting to someone else's Spelling, Punchuation, Grammar, etc doesn't really need to broadcast it, in a harmful way to that person{s}. They should just read as best as they are able and keep their comments to theirselves.

Not everyone is able to spell well and there are several people on both the Vacuum Cleaner Club Site and the Appliance Club Site, that even don't really pay attention as to what their writing, so they transpose letters in their writings.

Just wanting you to know that I'm defending you and I'm certainly not perfect, but hey "nobody" is anyway. I don't give a DAMN what anybody says, nobodies perfect and if anyone says that they think that they are perfect, I would love to kick them in their "Back-Side" for thinking that they are perfect.

Hang in there and try to just ignore the harming ones and know that there are certainly enough people in the Club that are going to be supportive and as helpful as they are able to, with others needs of Vacuum Cleaner Repairs and/or Parts.

Peace and Kind Regards, Steve
Electrolux1960...

 

[vintagehoover]

Have I missed something? I don't think anyone here has critised anyone else's spelling or punctuation?

 

[vintagehoover]

*criticised, lol

Just to clarify, in this particular thread, vacjwt apologised for his spelling, but as far as I can see, he wasn't prompted to do this by anyone else?

 

[vacuumboy95]

is it okay if I come and see it?

 

[rocketwarrior]

Mark Twain

Mark Twain said "....only a darn fool can't think of more than one way to spell a word."

 

[charles~richard]

Okay, here comes the school teacher in me coming out...

While I would never presume to publicly take someone to task for their grammar or spelling, poor use of these skills does make it more difficult to read and comprehend people's communications when they are written carelessly -- or deliberately poorly.

I am far from perfect in my use of language skills, but I do take pride in what I write. I am finding that with the passing of time, my spelling is getting gradually but definitely worse. So I do at least take the time to run a spell check on my internet postings and emails and, on the longer ones, proofread them for grammar and punctuation.

I'm just old enough (barely!) to have grown up in an era when spelling, grammar and punctuation were valued and were taught in school as essential skills, along with great emphasis on clean and legible penmanship.

"Pride of ownership" was instilled in students - a sense of value in one's writing and a desire to take responsibility for communicating clearly and lucidly.

In a different era, students who learned to write in longhand, and then in the next phase learned to use typewriters, also had to learn how to take more care with expressing themselves. There were no bottles of white-out or delete keys.

(Indeed, today, many people have even dispensed with the white-out, actual and figurative. Instead, they just dump their words out onto the computer screen and press SEND, caring little or none as to how their words represent them.)

I guess this changed with computers and word processors and hand-helds, where it's so easy to tap out a bunch of words and send them around the world, without really having to labor over them.

Today, words are moved to and fro so fast that it seems there's no time to properly construct them. Nor, for that matter, is there really any time to properly digest them on the receiving end. Everything in our society has become so fast. And there is a dark side to that "progress."

Furthermore, school children are no longer criticized for their deficiencies in these areas lest their feelings get hurt and their self esteem become impacted. The net result of this lack of training and discipline shows up all over the Internet. We have become a society of borderline-illiterate people, scarcely able to converse with one another due to poor communication skills. Not only in spelling, punctuation and grammar, but indeed it seems that many people don't even have a basic understanding of the English language and good sentence structure.

Another aspect to consider is that "common people" struggled and fought for centuries for the right to be educated. Maybe some young folks are unaware that many world governments and dictators throughout history deliberately denied the populace the opportunity to become literate. The less-educated people are, the easier it is to control and manipulate them. The Catholic Church also purposefully kept people ignorant, illiterate and unenlightened by conducting masses in a dead language (Latin).

Shall we now just toss out those hard-won rights simply because some people just don't care about being educated and indeed in many cases take pride in their ignorance -- preferring to come off as illiterate because they believe it makes them appear rebellious?

To those who want to "rebel against the system," the WORST way to do so is to deny themselves a good education - and to take no "pride of ownership" in their communication skills. How can people express their discontent if they can't even spell the word?

There is no crime or shame in being educated and literate, despite those who deign to wear their lack of education as a badge of honor.

Any civilization that cannot communicate with itself is surely doomed.

 

[myvacsrock]

Here is MY model O hoover!

Kyle