The Complete "Compact" Home Cleaning System

[dysonman1]

For the Modern Housewife.

 

[dysonman1]

IEC "Electra"

 

[dysonman1]

Only COMPACT is on the Ball!

 

[dysonman1]

As New As Tomorrow!

 

[dysonman1]

An INTERSTATE Quality Product

 

[dysonman1]

REAL Attachments Look Like This

 

[dysonman1]

A perfect hose. With its unique rubber hand grip.

 

[dysonman1]

Be Sure To MAGIC DISC Your Rugs Everyday. And Power-Clean Your Home Every Week!

 

[dysonman1]

The turbine powered POLISH-AIRE. For a sparkling gleam to your 1960's floors.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Those are GREAT cleaners! True no loss of suction since the Air goes Over the Dirt. I use an early TriStar for my Bench Vac. I double up the paper bags to hold airflow with the fine dust.

 

[n0oxy]

compact vacuums

I absolutely love my compact C6, it's one of my favorites, if I have the opportunity to add more compact tristar models to my collection, I will do so. The only ones I am not interested in are the ones that Aerus messed up after they bought the company. I think the CXL was the last model before they were bought out. Does anyone know what the differences were between models, did they start with the C1 and go up from there? I know there was a C9, I would love to know what changed on each model.
Mike

 

[Deleted member 1090]

I hear you i love my Compact Electra C9 !!! I know how you feel if i could get all the compact i would here is mine.

 

[broomvac]

What a nice looking Compact! Thanks for sharing!

I chuckled when I saw "Only Compact is on the ball!" aaaaand Dyson, too!

 

[Deleted member 1090]

Thanks

Thank you!I love my Compact C9 thank you

 

[suckolux]

Oh the memories flood back! Looks a little diffferent to our C4 of course. Is the metal comb still inside the flying disc?Boy I used ours a lot

 

[n0oxy]

compact c9

I'm assuming the C9 came out after the C6, I absolutely love the motor sound of the C6, a very smooth running two stage Ametek motor, that motor was used in a lot of vacuums at that time.
Mike

 

[kirbyvertibles]

It started around the late 1940s with the Model 1 Compact ( not C1). Here are the models that followed (not including Revelation or Standared models as I'm not sure when they stopped making them)
C-2,
C-4 (introduction of ABC power nozzle and fully electric hose),
C-5 (introduction of swivel caster),
C-6 (now has double casters and was the last model to have the ABC power nozzle),
C-7 (Has Turbenette turbo nozzle)
C-8 (introduction of the Eureka made power nozzle with cord wrapped around hose)
C-9 (re-introduction of electric hose)
C-80
C-80-2 (last of the Eureka made nozzle and somewhere in here was the introduction of the Compact/Tristar made power nozzle)
Tri-Star CXL (still using Eureka made nozzle)
Tri-Star CXL 2 speed now using Tristar made power nozzle,
CXL Gold 50th anniversary
CXL light grey/blueish color
CXL Grey speckled (introduction of crush proof electric hose)
DXL (introduction of greared belt system),
theres one more model here that is still the old style but I for get the model number. After that is all Areus owned EXL MG1 MG2 MG3 and CS

 

[gsheen]

Tom that is a beautiful machine. I love the attachments.
The colour pops its really awesome .

One day I will need to import one for my collection. They never sold in SA

 

[earlieone]

magic disc

How did this work?

 

[n0oxy]

revelation

What was the revelation vacuum, was it just one model or a series of models? Interesting that they used an electric hose, then tooka step backward by having an external cord before going back to an electric hose. If I can find a cxl or dxl I will probably grab it, after Aerus bought them, they moved to nonstandard hose ends and nonstandard receptacles and I've heard the motor is not as good. I think Interstate engineering made a mistake by allowing themselves to be bought out.
Mike

 

[suckolux]

Magic Disc is just a carpet sweeper

 

[kirbyvertibles]

The Revelation and Standard models from what I understand were sold through stores and the Compact was door to door. I'm not sure how many models of each there were. I know there were C-2 and C-4 of Revelation and Standard. What ever model of Compact was out at that time the Revelation and Standard were basically the same model . I have a Compact C-4 standard with ABC power nozzle and its model number is C-4SPB. The S is for standard and PB is for power brush.
I've seen Revelations in Blue and green. The standard was a pinkish tan color.
I wish I knew more about these.

 

[electrolux137]

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Speaking of Compacts, I received the following very nice email today:


 



As a child in 1950's on a farm in the Texas Panhandle, I watched an amazing Compact Vacuum demo.

My very tightfisted mother was so impressed that she parted with her money and she continued to use it until her death in 2001.

My sister may still have it but can't name where she put it.

I remembered hearing that the Compact was invented for cleaning airliners. 

A few weeks ago I visited an patient in a rehab facility whose lifetime wandering included living in El Segundo and vacuuming planes nearby. I asked her if she had ever used an egg-shaped, green vacuum and her dementia seemed to melt away.

The next week I downloaded a picture to my phone and asked her if that was it.  She gave me the biggest smile and thanks.

I stumbled onto your website. It reinforces some distant memories and connects me with someone who has very few connections left.

Thanks and God Bless You.

Kenneth Armstrong, Round Rock, TX


 

 

[vacuumlad1650]

That's awesome, Charles Richard. I'm actually speechless...something that is uncommon for me. That's just amazing!

 

[fantomfan57]

Hey Charles....

thanks for sharing, the author lives just north of me here in North Austin. Is there a possibility he and I could meet?