Someone Please Help Me!!!!!!!

[rhazlitt78]

Ok so i found this in my alley i been searching online for make model number worth basically anything and everything i could find on it and have come up empty for about 3 week can someone please tell me what it is im holding on to thank you its driving me nuts

 

[crazykirbydude]

Keep it. If you are a collector, hold onto it. If you just want to sell it, sell it on the Supermarket forum on here.

 

[kirby519]

Looks to be of the same time of the wireless vacuette that James Kirby designed in the early 1900's before all homes had electricity. It used a geared front wheel assembly to spin a fan to create suction. Does yours have a brush roll/agitator in it? It is a rare piece and very valuable/collectable.

 

[rhazlitt78]

Thank you guys very much i was really wanting to sell it because im not a collector i jus didn know what kind it was or what i should sell it for and yes it does have a roller/agitator

 

[luxkid1980]

I wonder if they have this model at the Museum of Clean in Idaho? You might want to ask them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ctive-exhibits-window-washing-bed-making.html

http://museumofclean.com.s158603.gridserver.com/

 

[rhazlitt78]

So i emailed the museum of course they are closed today but i did find what i think could be a patent number on it (prov pat 15201/48) but again google let me down now im obsessed with this thing i search whirlwind it comes up ives mcgaffey i search whirlwind de kux it cones up cotton candy machine i dont know what else to do any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Alex TAber (caluga) would be the one to answer all your questions on this. He is currently o vacation but keep checking back in a couple weeks when he returns.

 

[dysonman1]

Looks to be made by Vital. There were rubber rings around the drive wheels. You'll have to use a Kirby belt on each drive wheel, or it won't 'drive' the fan on rugs.

 

[luxkid1980]

I hope you get a response back from the museum soon. It's an interesting looking piece!

 

[bvac6]

Wow

Very cool, very old, very obscure. Excellent find!

 

[human]

Hard to believe somebody just dumped that in an alleyway. I guess for some folks, 'old' just equals 'junk'. Fortunately, that machine has survived long enough to be an antique, if not an artifact.

 

[rhazlitt78]

Thank you guys so much for your help so far still havent heard back from the museum even emailed a couple of other places hoping maybe they would know no luck yet i found a auction for 2 of them from 2010 it came up "2 antique whirlwind de lux vacuums" didnt say how much they sold for or anything jus a picture and that was all that was the only thing i could find its like this thing only had like 3 made and thanks kirbyvertibles ill send himba message when he gets back as hard as it will be to wait guess i got too and now im even more obsessed with this thing thanks to dysonman i really wanna crack it open see how it works all i can see really is a little plastic fan like thing behind the wheel brush im very curious jus goes to show some people dont stop to think what they have before they chuck it

 

[toddk13]

Where's the battery?

I can imagine somebody got rid of it because they couldn't find the charger port for the non-existent battery. "What do you mean this has no battery?"

 

[rhazlitt78]

So after a long and grueling 3 weeks i finally figured out the brand atleast the brand it is whirlwind but as for maker or year or price im stumped kinda like the guy looking for the charger port on the non existent battery

http://www.goldingyoung.com/Lot/?sale=BC190214&lot=372&id=387797

 

[kirbyvertibles]

I think it's the coolest non electric I have ever seen!!

 

[s31463221]

Somebody didn't know what they had...

If I'm looking at your link correctly, it shows that pair of whirlwinds sold for 2 British Pounds......or $2.50 in US currency.......WOW!!!

 

[s31463221]

Robert

Okay, so I found something about these machines you might be interested in. It appears they may have been made in the 1930's and had to be assembled by hand. Scroll down about half-way of this website I'm linking below and you will see one with a little blurb about it.

http://aussiesvintagevacuums.weebly.com/upright-vacuum-cleaners.html

 

[s31463221]

Here's another ad for it

Supposedly from 1952......

 

[rhazlitt78]

Steve(s31463221)

Steve your a genious all of you people are i swear ive aged atleast 40 years in 3 weeks since i found this and started trying to research it losing my hair and you guys come up with stuff i couldnt find daily thank you all so much and yeah steve i had to recheck that twice myself when i saw it 2 pounds is $2.50 im little scared to try and sell it now lol