The Eureka HAMBURGER

[real1shep]

OK....

so it would seem there was some healthy competition, maybe even plagiarizing, of the period popular suitcase/hamburger/canned ham/saucer type vacs. Who had the best/strongest motors, well-designed/functional floor attachments and stellar PN'S?


 


Kevin

 

[gsheen]

Love the Eureka and the Sunbeam. I really wish that some of these unique vacuums had been sold in SA

 

[real1shep]

From the drift of this thread, it sounds like maybe Sunbeam had a slight edge on the competition of the day?  


 


I guess the irony of all this is that I collect vacs now, but when I was younger, I walked by literally hundreds of ma & pa vac shops in my travels without even going in. So now I play catch-up and try to strain my brain to remember if I saw any of these models in use somewhere. Some look familiar, some don't. My parents were against anything coming from Sears, Montgomery Ward et al......so unless I saw something in someone's home from there, I missed that boat entirely just by prejudice.  


 


Kevin

 

[eurekaprince]

You know, much as I have always loved Eurekas (since childhood), the disappearance of Sunbeam from the vacuum world was a real loss. Somehow, I always liked their vacs even though I barely knew one relative or neighbour who owned one. And wouldn't you know it? It turns out - as I have learned on Vacummland - that Sunbeam vacs had some really powerful motors and airflow to get the dirt into the bag. Wish we had owned a Challenger....what a great design....

Sunbeam is gone, along with Eureka Williams and other vacuums from my childhood...

I feel a song coming on...."Sunrise, sunset...swiftly flow the years, one season following another, laden with happiness and tears..."

:-(

 

[collector2]

Love the Princess style machines. My aunt had the Singer version of it at one time. Same machine but white hose and parts. Not sure what the model number would have been. Wish I could have gotten hold of it though.

 

[real1shep]

Not a lot....

on the Net about Sunbeam vacs....other than Gasko's piece on the Dual Delux. Since the motors were made in-house, he said armatures and even brushes have long since disappeared. Rare and probably not a DD...lol.


 


Kevin

 

[eurekaprince]

Here's a videoclip of a Crown Princess sucking up marbles...the handle serves double-duty as a foot pedal switch!



http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYxHdCoTYd0&sns=em

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I have a friend who had one of these

He asked me top install a cedar closet for him. After EACH cut, he'd suck up the sawdust with that thing. It worked great for him. He also had a Hoover Concept powerdrive in the house as well as an old 700 'coffee can' for the 'garage' . Yikes

 

[gsheen]

Its really horrific when you see people using something we consider priceless as a workshop or garage vac.

 

[real1shep]

<a name="start_33774.367307"></a>Its really horrific when you see people using something we consider priceless as a workshop or garage vac.



 


Oh I dunno....if it gives them pleasure and they take care of it, what's the harm? As I get older, I ask myself, "Just who am I saving all this stuff for (actually junk to most)? Certainly not my surviving son who thinks I'm a hoarder because I might have two vacs of the same model.


 


My parents had some near priceless china locked in a hutch and only came out twice a yr for T-Day and Xmas. One day they said what the hell and started using it for everyday dishware. I applauded them for that, although when they passed the stuff vanished.


 


Kevin