Saw this Panasonic brochure on ebay..

[ian88]

Just incase anyone wants to see what the 1970s upright Panasonics looked like (look to the left)

Lemme know what y'all think about the design ;]

 

[arh1953]

Leave it to you Ian, I collect Panasonic products, and have two small booklets and a few portables. Oh yes, the vacuum- I like it. Dig that silver "spaceship" tv on the end. Very collectable. My booklets have vacuums too.

 

[ian88]

You must send me scans of the vacuum pages, you know my email address [email protected]

nice detailed scans ;p

 

[ian88]

I've seen a few of those silver tv's come up on ebay now and then, Matsushita's designs were often as revolutionary as it's management practices ;] for those who don't get the hit, ie: very

lol

 

[ian88]

hit? tip...damn it's too late/early..

 

[petek]

I got this blender the other day off Ebay. It's the Panasonic Recipe Blender, very cool. That might be it in the back left of the brochure...
It has a large viewing window and you twist the dial timer to what job you're doing and press start. You change recipes by pushing that big white button and the "card" flips to the next one,,aka another speed. And it's "solid state" always a give away to 60's and early 70's stuff.

 

[petek]

Here's the top of the line Panasonic Blender. Chrome and with electronic timer,,no mechanical dials here and solid state.
I love Panasonic 60's 70' stuff.. have some more somewheres, plus the Jet Flo vacs. I have a neat little 4 inch tv that pops up out of the case,,runs on recharable battery as well.

 

[ian88]

Ah yes, the pandora..thats seen in that brochure ;p

heh, Panasonic's TV names in the 70s were a bit odd...the pandora, the orbitel (easy to guess what that was ) and the wilmington..

 

[arh1953]

Model names are always fascinating to me. My house was built in 1961, we are the only family to ever live here. It was built by Mackle Brothers, for General Developement. Anyhow, this house model name is fhe "Tampico" Orbitel is of course the little spaceship TV. I will try to post scans of my little Panasonic booklet vacuum cleaners, I am fighting keeping several curious cats out of the room the booklets are hidden in.

 

[ian88]

Heh, you love the little buggers really ;p

and yes scan the vacuums when you're ready..either post em here or email em to me.

not many other people here seem to share the passion for Japanese electricals as us three guys do ;]

 

[arh1953]

I will do the best I can. The cats love me and I love them.

 

[ian88]

Bit weird having houses with model names.. far as i'm aware mine's just ya average early 70s british house, I guess it could have a style code for internal use

Matsushita used to make houses you know, prefabricated ones..I dunno if they still do.

 

[arh1953]

Oh that's interesting. Maybe it's an American thing to name products, it is more personal than a model number. Don't care for the car trend in a lot of makers to only use numbers instead of names.

 

[ian88]

Ah well that's a mostly european thing too, Peugeot especially uses just model numbers as does Citroen..

Best get those pics sorted soon Alan, to kick this back into topic

 

[petek]

I just looked again,,there's the little pop up tv on the brochure...now I'll have to dig it out for a pic.

 

[ian88]

More pics..

 

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[dial-a-nap]

More Panasonic fans! I've never seen any of the small appliances or older vacs, but I have a beautiful clock radio with the digital "leaves" readout that I love. A friend here in town gave it to me and it keeps perfect time. I'd love to see one of those announcing clock radios sometime - how fun. My brother in law who is blind would like that one too!

Thanks for posting the brochure - very interesting.