Okay...let's see your DREYFUSS machines!

[vacuumkid3]

Yup...that's right! Some Dreyfuss Designs would be really cool! I love that 150...and the Constellation...and really everything he designed! So let's see them! I'll start out...but it's no vacuum!

~~K~~

That's a Western Electric 302! I wish mine looked like that...but it looks pretty close!

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[z30soulbrother]

DREYFUSS

kyle my senior 652c 1970 i think , does it qualify? it was a dreyfuss design of the late 50s yes?

SI

 

[z30soulbrother]

senior blower converter

kyle sorry forgot to include the blower converter! i do have it, honest!

si

 

[z30soulbrother]

toolkit

kyle, or anyone, this is the toolkit that came with it, i have a feeling there was a more modern 1 out at the time of this particular model, with, plastic wand clips and fixed converter with removable plate to unblock,yes? or did that all come later?

si

 

[vintagehoover]

Model 652

Here's the UK-adaptation of the original Dreyfuss design, on which the 6525C was based:

 

[ian88]

Does this qualify?

 

[vintagehoover]

160 & 960

...

 

[z30soulbrother]

dreyfuss

did these have side hose ports?

si

 

[vacuumkid3]

Good job, everyone! Yes, Simon, that qualifies! Ya'll have some beauties alright!!

Yes, Ian...that one counts too! I like that train. In my visit to New York City with my band, we stayed at the Edison Hotel. Sure enough, they have a mural of that exact train!

Man, I never can get enough of Dreyfuss designs...SAY! Did he design the Hoover logo as well? I think the Wikipedia page credits that to...what's his face...that other famous designer. The guy that designed the Studebaker logo. Anyways...

~~K~~

 

[vintagehoover]

Raymond Loewy??

??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Loewy

 

[vintagehoover]

Model 262

Based on the Model 26 (?), also a Dreyfuss design.

 

[vintagehoover]

Side hose port

160, 960 and 262 all have side hose ports, as did the 612 which replaced them:

 

[74simon]

Hey Si,

Yes, the toolkit with your 6525C is an earlier one - the main giveaway is the metal clips on the rods, which were replaced by plastic ones in the mid sixties. Also, from 1968, the convertor pan was permanently attached to the hose, with no facility to blow. Later hoses are also shorter too, those early ones are great for doing the stairs with!

Yep, the 160/960 has the side port. Here's mine all set up before I had a proper flex put on it (pardon the mess, by the way!):

 

[petek]

Here's mine, still in use. The Honeywell roundie and if I could get over to my neighbors with camera they still have many of their Dreyfuss designed Honeywell Tap-light light switches

 

[charles~richard]

What's the difference/s between the 160 and 960?

 

[ian88]

Since Kyle likes weird Trains seemingly, here's some WW2

Steam Turbine locomotive prototypes, look at the bloody things..makes me want to start whistling the Midgar theme from Final Fantasy 7 =p

 

[ian88]

#2

 

[vintagehoover]

Charles Richard:

I'll answer your question about the 960 in my own 960-related thread!

http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/THREADS/VINTAGE/2426x12.htm

 

[charles~richard]

Thanks -- if the fan case liner was so crucial, why wasn't it a feature on ALL Hoovers?

I really like the big fat bag of the 960 -- I'll bet if I had seen on as a little kid I would have been terrified of it!