turbopowerpaul
Well-known member
Right oh - first off - there appears to be a bit of a discrepency in the dating system of the forums.
Stated on the forum pages is the year 1980, which is used to stipulate vintage or modern, but on creating a thread the age thing is stipulated as being 20 years from now, so going back to only 1992.
As most people would define Turbopowers and their brothers and sisters as being 'modern plastic', in comparison to Juniors and Seniors, I think purple is the best place for this thread, despite the oldest machines being from 1983 - nearly 30 years ago!
Here goes an attempt at a pictorial history of the original Hoover Turbopower's, Turbolite's, Turbomaster's, Turbopower2, Turbopower1000 and Turbopower3's. Going to take a fair few nights to cover the lot and there are some machines that I just dont have a photo of, so any help with these mystery machines would be greatly appreciated.
Been meaning to do a thread like this for a while and Alex's enquiry thread has given me the kickstart I need to do it.
Having thought about it, it is easier to deal with models based on model number, rather than year of introduction, but I will reference the year and series where possible.
I have some questions along the way as well, so hopefully some of your guys will be able to give me some answers.
Having accumulated a fair old collection of Turbo's over the last five years with Rob (Turbomaster1984), most of the photos will be three quarter portrait shots of our machines, interspersed with official images from brochures and photos of other collectors machines who luckily have some of the machines that we dont own yet. In anticipation of using these latter photographs, many thanks to their owners.
Feel free to add your own too as we go along.
Here goes!
Stated on the forum pages is the year 1980, which is used to stipulate vintage or modern, but on creating a thread the age thing is stipulated as being 20 years from now, so going back to only 1992.
As most people would define Turbopowers and their brothers and sisters as being 'modern plastic', in comparison to Juniors and Seniors, I think purple is the best place for this thread, despite the oldest machines being from 1983 - nearly 30 years ago!
Here goes an attempt at a pictorial history of the original Hoover Turbopower's, Turbolite's, Turbomaster's, Turbopower2, Turbopower1000 and Turbopower3's. Going to take a fair few nights to cover the lot and there are some machines that I just dont have a photo of, so any help with these mystery machines would be greatly appreciated.
Been meaning to do a thread like this for a while and Alex's enquiry thread has given me the kickstart I need to do it.
Having thought about it, it is easier to deal with models based on model number, rather than year of introduction, but I will reference the year and series where possible.
I have some questions along the way as well, so hopefully some of your guys will be able to give me some answers.
Having accumulated a fair old collection of Turbo's over the last five years with Rob (Turbomaster1984), most of the photos will be three quarter portrait shots of our machines, interspersed with official images from brochures and photos of other collectors machines who luckily have some of the machines that we dont own yet. In anticipation of using these latter photographs, many thanks to their owners.
Feel free to add your own too as we go along.
Here goes!
