The 71-year-old vacuum cleaner that's still going strong

[charles~richard]

See link. (Sent to me by a non-collector friend <br


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=454170&in_page_id=1770

 

[vintagehoover]

Interesting article, although I think calling it the 'oldest working appliance in Britain' is ridiculous; pure tabloid hype - but what less could you expect from the Daily Mail?! I have several working machines older than that, and I'm sure many other members of this forum do too!

 

[charles~richard]

Oh, absolutely!

I just thot the guy is such a loveable old coot -- that's me in about 25 years, hahaha! (And is SOME of us today, hahahahaha!! <br
Seriously, can you imagine someone who is actually still cleaning their house, using as a daily driver, such an old klunker? Lord only knows what filth is lurking in THOSE carpets <br
It's one thing to have old machines for fun and nostalgia, quite another to be deluded into believing they actually do a thorough job of cleaning! Especially a straight-suction tank. This machine looks very similar to an Electrolux XII and I imagine is of about comparable power -- in other words, pretty wimpy! Even when judged against the XXX, which has significantly more suction than the XII <br
On the other hand, I'd say it's a fairly easy bet that any of the Hoovers from the 700 up through the last Convertibles would out-clean just about any machine on the market today. And the user would look SO much more glamorous than when shoving some hideously garish plastic monstrosity around the house <br

 

[74simon]

Yes,

I was thinking that it can't do a great job either. The Goblin Triumph was one of the high-end models in its time though, with a whopping 235 watts of power! Still, at least he's not using one of those pneumatic brooms, or a hand cranked thingy.. <br
Having said that, I have been suprised before at how much dirt a low power suction only cleaner ends up with in its bag. But I'd rather put my faith in an agitator upright. There's that deep-down damaging grit to worry about!

 

[tolivac]

Lets send the Kirby,Rainbow,Filter Queen,TriStar salesmen to his house!!I can go along with the previous entry-with that suction only machine-his rugs and carpets must be more than their own weight full of dirt!Maybe someone can rig up a powernozzle attachment for his Goblin?that would help.

 

[ian88]

I dunno, being an older gentleman I would presume he'd need a lighter vac, much like that goblin <br
This ain't "Superman: The twilight years" folks.