Some Hoover Vault Finds...

[swingette]

How 'bout some milk with that?

...

 

[arh1953]

Wha.......

Booooiiiiiinnnnngggggggg!!!!!!!!

 

[myhooverco]

Charlie...

Thanks for the cake and

David...

Thanks even more the MILK...wow!

Thanks for the nice comments everyone! I am touched.

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Mike...

I am not sure how the vault worked in relation to Canada, the UK, or any other plant. The serial number on the 1334 is "KL-12185". Maybe you can fill me in on this one? I have no information on this model at all and am not sure how to read the serial number. Thanks for any help that you might give.

--Tom

 

[ian88]

@ Pic.

I actually hope those AREN'T real

 

[aeoliandave]

This looks like a job for Fred Nelson.

If ever we needed the *POOF* interrupt, it is now...

Despite how amusing the thread is becoming while we wait for a a simple 'oops, sorry' rather than the offensive and badly punctuated defensive posture offered up so far, might we all make email requests to the Webmaster to please remove all posts from #31721 onward, so that Tom's invaluable thread can live on in the archives unsullied?

This is not censorship. We've all read the posts so there's no reason to preserve them for all time. But, Tom's original post and the positive ongoing contributions to its intent should be. I mean, what message is being sent to oldies and newbies alike who will access this wonderfully illustrated stroll down memory lane...and then they get to this unexpected speedbump? This is one of the threads I've bookmarked, as I have many in the archives, for later revisiting and research.

Cast your vote to [email protected].

my 17 cents and moving on.

Dave

 

[swingette]

Dave, good points. Shame to have to bug the webmaster over trifles and make it into a big deal, but as long as we are on the subject...

I was hoping i had misunderstood Swiveltops post. I thought he was gonna say "I was drunk when i wrote that" or "I was talking about something else".

It wouldnt have mattered except that Tom Anderson LOVES the Hoover Company. I dont know him that well but seems to me that now that The Hoover Company has nearly died, Tom is a huge part of whats left. He knows more about The Hoover Cleaner than TTI probably.

Its sad to mess up a nice thread with a misunderstanding.

 

[swiveltop]

Tom, I'm really sorry and meant no harm,I would never even send someone a rude e-mail,you are a wonderfull person and have preserved Hoover's history,some of these people just thrive on drama and will take anything and take it way out of text. Mark

 

[electroluxxxx]

those look real I saw a lot of those on the maury show last year. LOL

 

[myhooverco]

Mark...

Thanks for your appology. I appreciate it. Vibrabeat is one of my closest friends and a very honest and nice person. He was just coming to my defense. I do hope that you hold nothing against him. This summer at the vacuum convention, if you can make it, he will be holding an open house so that club members can view his impressive vacuum collection. It should be one of the highlights of the convention!

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a 1976 Hoover Convertible...

 

[myhooverco]

This is its Hoover "samples room" tag...too bad it is not number 1!

 

[myhooverco]

Model number and serial number...

 

[myhooverco]

Here is the brush roll compartment...again never used!

 

[myhooverco]

...side shot...

 

[myhooverco]

The original bag is still installed...

 

[myhooverco]

This one has no writing on the bag jacket. I guess that this one must have been a mid line model. It uses the bottom fill type C bags as the top fill design was not introduced until 1977.

 

[myhooverco]

Here is the U4107-001. It was the first plastic chasis version built in Nov. 1978.

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is its tag...

 

[myhooverco]

This is the machine tag...