the great ESTATE.....

[1926700]

hey there all....

yesterday i went to pick up a vacuum on the south side..it was a Hoover Convertible Estate/Elite, well i got to the woman's house prepared to dish out $30.00 for this machine....come to find out it was a absolute rust bucket...so i ended up getting the machine for $5.00....most of you are saying...."don't you already have a Estate?"....and the answer is yes....but mine is not all original...it had a bojack bag...had being the key word....so i changed out the hood on mine since the label on the other hood was better, and switched out bags....and there i have a all original Hoover Estate/Elite....hers a pic of what mine looked like before when i first got it...

 

[1926700]

and .......

hers the after.....the right bag makes such a difference..

 

[1926700]

and

another glamor shot....

 

[1926700]

give good face....

this hood is actually in better condition...

 

[kirbylux77]

Hey Jason....please do show us pics of the underside of the Convertible. I am interested to see it, since we were talking about it this afternoon....if you could please & thanks.

Rob

 

[portable]

This is one of my favorite "later" COnvertibles (compared to the original). That's a purdy one. Congrats!

 

[collector2]

Hey John - nice pics but they need to be rotated. If you need a program to do it look up irfanview on the web. Its a free program and works very well for minor editing.

The machine looks much better with the right bag.

 

[portable]

A coupla great shots courtesy of Fred S.....

 

[portable]

and the 2nd one.....

 

[uprightman]

MANLY, yes...but I like it TOO!

Really diggin' the bag on the U1025. Thanks for the photos, Portable!

 

[1926700]

in the first....

hoover page posted i have all those models from the 1978 line...

 

[twocvbloke]

It's weird seeing Hoover Juniors with the wrong plug on the cable...

Not to mention that U1025 with a little brown bag topper, we never got that on our Juniors... :S

One other difference is that your Juniors appear to use spring hangers, where ours had a spring-loaded hook to hold the bag up and away from the handle, and the bags have a little metal spreader bar with a small loop to hook onto the hanger...

Amazing how what we perceive as being mostly the same ends up being quite different...

 

[1926700]

thats....

us damn Americans for you!...lol!...no i agree only the opposite...im not use to seeing British Hoover juniors with the spring loaded bag clips and the 220 volt cord.....i know precisely what you mean....

 

[ohio_tuec]

Not to mention the fact....

That some U.K. models of the junior had a headlight. Something that ours in the states never had. Why were they more popular on "the other side of the pond?" It's a great little vacuum to clean smaller areas.

- Karl

 

[twocvbloke]

I think the fact that the Junior was popular here is because we live in tiny houses, big vacuums tend to get in the way or caught up on things, so, the small upright that was the Junior was the most popular of Hoover's line...

Heck, even I like them, and I'm not a Hoover person...

 

[vac_whisperer]

Ive always loved the later convertibles and early convertibles... Sad that i have only one hoover in my collection, a Dial a Matic.

VW

 

[gottahaveahoove]

ONLY one?

Then, you must procure more of them, .....right away!

 

[kloveland]

Nice Find!!!

Good find Jason,

Glad you were able to make an original machine. Really like the bag and color on the estate.

Kenny

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

There was, however, a 110-volt version of the Dirtsearcher Junior model 1354A sold in Canada.

~Ben