Sanitaire S490A -- Original Power Nozzle?

[eluxfan71]

Yes - while Googling the German words “staubsauger Progress” to find images of various Progress cleaners, I came upon many websites showing the dustbags for this model. There were dustbag packages that listed all the Progress and Volta and Electrolux models that would take a single dust bag style. I also found out that AB Electrolux bought Progress in 1980

Yes right, on the bags you see all Brands and mdels they had
including for Hoover, Braun etc.
Will make a pic of it. Progress was especially in Germany.

 

[eluxfan71]

Wow. All these years I've thought Progress was French.

In France beside Electrolux/Lux (direct sale) they had mainly Tornado. If you search „aspirateur Tornado“ you can find many pics

 

[vacerator]

Tornado is wat I should have remembered.

 

[cheesewonton]

Yes - while Googling the German words “staubsauger Progress” to find images of various Progress cleaners, I came upon many websites showing the dustbags for this model. There were dustbag packages that listed all the Progress and Volta and Electrolux models that would take a single dust bag style. I also found out that AB Electrolux bought Progress in 1980.

fhp.fi in Finland has synthetic HEPA dust bags for many of these old Volta, Progress, Electrolux and AEG models that ended up in the US sold as Eureka or Sanitaire models. Example, the S6982 / 6983 / 6984 series, in the US you only find crummy paper bags but if you look at fhp.fi in their listing of dust bags you will see one for the Volta Gemini U2800 series that fits and is a nice synthetic dust bag. Same for these old S490s, I see electropapa on the German eBay website among other sells a synthetic bag for them. You just have to poke around a big. fhp.fi ships to the US btw and they are nice to deal with. They also have a synthetic dust bag that fits the Eureka HP / Walmart GE canister, the dark green one. In Europe that vacuum was the Volta Elyps or Electrolux Mondo and you find good quality Menalux bags for it listed for the Mondo.
For shippers in the EU who don't ship direct to the US I use a freight forwarder called ColisExpat. You have the seller ship to one of their warehouses in Europe ( UK, France, Germany and Italy ) and once the package arrives they ship it off to you in the US. Great service.

 

[eurekaprince]

Here’s a great historical overview of the Progress company by a vacuum fan in Germany. I’ll never forget seeing one of those 1980’s Progress electric brooms labelled as a Eureka in one of our vacuum stores in Toronto. Here’s the website: https://www.staubsauger-progress.de

 

[eluxfan71]

Yes - while Googling the German words “staubsauger Progress” to find images of various Progress cleaners, I came upon many websites showing the dustbags for this model. There were dustbag packages that listed all the Progress and Volta and Electrolux models that would take a single dust bag style. I also found out that AB Electrolux bought Progress in 1980.

This was one of the first Progress sold under Volta/Electrolux after 1980