The Greater Morrow

[dysonman1]

“always a day ahead”. Much love and gratitude to my friend Ray for donating this extremely rare “Morrow” (as in tomorrow) vacuum cleaner to the museum. It is from the early 1920s. It is unique and unlike any other straight suction vacuum in the collection. Thank you Ray (repairman on VL). You are a wonderful friend.

 

[dysonman1]

Shot of the original cloth bag. That’s so important.

 

[dysonman1]

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[huskyvacs]

Nice find! Looks a lot like an Eureka Model 9 but they added a bigger fan duct on it. Also I have those same air vent grilles in my house. lol

 

[dysonman1]

Such a cool machine. I don’t know anyone else who has one.

 

[johnnyb59c]

awesome

the nozzle reminds me of a Cadillac(vacuum)

 

[uksausage]

Fab find

That’s an awesome looking vacuum is there any video of it on YouTube in use Is that a floating brush or a fixed brush with the nozzle height

 

[dysonman1]

It's a fixed bristle brush. The machine was restored and the brush rebristled by my friend Ray (Biker Ray on Vacuumland). In my initial post I made a mistake on Ray's vacuumland name. The motor is made by Westinghouse. It has a very low serial number.

 

[electrolux137]

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Was there a Lesser Morrow?!

 

[hygiene903]

Amazing Find!

I have never seen or heard of this brand before, but I agree with Johnny, it does kind of resemble a Cadillac. Very kind of Ray to donate it to the museum.
Jeff

 

[bikerray]

The Morrow was made in Waukegan Illinois

Here are pictures
1 when I first got it
2 when I rebristled it the old bristles and halfway thru the new bristles
3 when I finished rebristling
4 back on the Morrow
5 from the front with the rebristled brush

 

[dysonman1]

Thanks again Ray. It's wonderful to have such a great friend. I think most of the vacuum collecting community comes together to help each other out with unique and special things for our collections. I'm very blessed to have such good friends.

 

[johnnyb59c]

I wonder

if any of these old treasures were lost? maybe theyre still out there somewhere-I can only hope and pray I may find a couple out there someday but it's been awhile(pic is from 1986-a lot of carpet was ruined! I got a couple of vacs from neighbors that werent very old at the time but they survived!

 

[kloveland]

Oh yes! The 1986 flood! I was only a year old at the time. My neighborhood has canals built to control the flow of water because of that flood.

 

[johnnyb59c]

Kloveland-

I tried to email you the other day.