OK! Here It Is-The Fabulous Eureka Empress!

[charles~richard]

by the way Fred,

Re your Electrolux Model R -- bottom row, 3rd or 4th one over, the white and gray one -- its cover is upside down! In all the illustrations in the instruction booklets for the S (to its left) and R, the cover is shown with the "pointy" end up and the "wider" end down. This has been upsetting me for hours now, ever since I spotted it! So would you please FIX IT! (hahahaha!!!)

 

[vacerator]

Nice Empress I. Why only a 3 year model run for this style? Did GE stop making the motors? Hiked the cost? Eureka could have easily added a power port for their new rotomatic power nozzle, and used the same hose the 1600 series oblong machines used.

 

[kirbyvertibles]

GE did NOT.....

Make the motor for the Empress I. It was made buy Lamb Ametek, and it is marked as that on the bottom fan casing.

 

[vacerator]

Kirbyberibles, another member has a you tube video and says the motor was made by GE, and is upside down mounted, drawing air through the motor armature and brushes before the fans.

 

[kenkart]

It Looks like a GE motor

But is made by Lamb, really powerful too.

 

[paul]

Similar Model 1099-A

The Eureka Model 1099-A was apparently the drop-down version of the Empress Model 1100-A.

Differences I noticed from the Empress:

1. No Speed Selector selector

2. No Bag Guard indicator

3. Tool Caddy instead of Tool Case

4. Tools are lagoon blue instead of white

5. Vibra-Beat Nozzle instead of the Vibra-Vac Power Head

Incidentally, it would have originally taken Style M bags. It seems as though these were interchangeable with the later Style B & Style S bags.

 

[eurekaprince]

I found a recent video of the low end Empress 1099 in Lagoon Blue….see link below…