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I've never seen it either.

I can't say that I'm too surprised because we all know how Oreck loved to put their name on other brands of machines and I guess anything can be bought in the world of product licensing. This is the Oreck commercial canister that I'm more familiar with. Back in the early 1960's this was sold in the Whirlpool brand with the same wide power nozzle that was used for the domestic Whirlpool canisters at the time.

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That's interesting

Neither have I. I'm also familiar with the one luxlife shared but didn't realized they were actually Whirlpool machines, I know Oreck got their upright design from Whirlpool.
 
The Oreck PT-57 & PT-357 canisters and Bigfoot (CAP175) power nozzle were made by Mastercraft. Whirlpool only made the power nozzle pictured below that was also used with the early variations of the machine. The Whirlpool head was also bundled with Rainbow D series units.

Photo courtesy of Tom Gasko. Owen Perkins shows the differences in the video below.



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The Whirlpool power nozzle I’m referring to might be older.

I’m thinking of the nozzle that Whirlpool paired with their household canisters in the early 60’s, only I played with it as attached to a commercial type canister with a cage on top to store the hose. I guess you could call it an L-shape nozzle. I remember seeing a pic of Tom G’s. It was black. Anyway, one of my Grandmother’s neighbors had one. They lived in one of those sprawling MCM ranch homes from the late 50’s full of wall to wall carpet, so I would imagine it saw a lot of use because of the longer hose.
 

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