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Another Model 200 Manual page showing the hose and other tools, all with long necks. Unique button latch connections slide into a long slot on the necks. Note the floor nozzle doesn't yet have a rubber bumper. Unlike later styled Model 30s and 700s etc, only one curved wand, the upper section is straight. It is the hose pipe end that is curved and connected to the tools or wands.

And gol'darnit, if I don't have the correct long neck slotted Crevice Tool for this Filter Queen. Many many thanks, dear Pete. Another vacuum comes together like globs of mercury...

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OH MY WORD.....

I just peed a little in me panties.

Singer U-59 in the owners manual advertisement(my baby)!!!AND in color no less!!!

Yeah Rusty Andres and I were talking about having a mitten meet also. It has been tossed around, nothing serious as of yet. Would be great to meet more people. I have of course met Pete. Sarnia not that far if you take good ol' I-75.

That sounds like a good idea in the winter. Just not when it's about to dump upon us a foot or more of the fluffy powder. I mean no one wants to drive on that stuff!! LOL

Glad to see that someone remembers them being called Davenports as well. We just got rid of ours off our three seasons room up at the parents house. Ours was dark green and gold tapestry effect upholstery. It was awful, but in the summer I could lounge out ther all day with my iced tea, Camel Lights and a good book and waste the entire day. For me being 6 ft. + there was no better way to relax completly stretched out thatn laying on that thing... SADNESS;-(

It was replaced with a wicker love seat thing. My mom has hit her "bout to be 70" stride. She wants all her furniture out there to match, and it all to be white painted wicker. It's like being on the set of the Golden Girls. NOT that that would be a bad thing BTW!!!

Sorry

Chad
 
that is very similar to grandma's Davenport it is maybe a little longer and has a lower back. It is in a chestnut brown background with a brown and orange floral print, it was made by Century Furniture and she has two matching side chairs. Very comfortable except that after almost 35 years it is starting to sag some
 
My mom had the hair dryer attachment for her Filter Queen but I don't remember ever seeing her use it. Instead she had a similiar looking bonnet and tube which connected to a dryer that sort of looked like what we know as todays blow dryer. It was all chrome, about 10-12 inches in height, maybe made by Sunbeam, but I'm not sure.

Gary
 
One of the early hand vacuums from the late 1920s or early 1930s, either a Eureka or Kenmore, I don't recall which now, had what was probably the most successful hair dryer attachment for a vacuum cleaner -- successful because it contained a heating element in it.

It was not a hair drying bonnet or helmet but rather a hand-held blow-dryer. The way it worked, as best I recall, was that a heating element was affixed to the blower end of the machine, then a short electrical cord leading from it was plugged into the side of the vacuum cleaner motor. Then, a short flexible hose, 3 ft. or so long, with a hand-held 'pistol' sort of nozzle on the business end, was connected to the heating element.

The details on this are quite fuzzy now as I've never actually seen one, only an illustration of it. But the thing that sticks out about it is the fact that it did have a heating element in it rather than just relying on the mild warmth that comes from the vacuum cleaner motor.

The 1920s Air-Way chief also had a hair-dryer bonnet that, if I recall correctly, was very similar to the Filter Queen setup. The instruction booklet suggested that the user place the motor "near a fireplace" so as to introduce heat into the air stream! Can you imagine?!
 

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