I can "ditto" countryguy's recollections of a Golden Crown with a woven hose and three-section wand.
My Aunt Dabney, the aunt with the "scary" Kirby, had this very machine. She kept it in the garage which had a door leading to it from their lower-level rec-room (they had a large split-level house finished in 1957). I clearly recall the brushed-gold top.
Every time we'd go visit, I'd go in there to look at it. She kept the hose hanging from a nail in the wall. The hose was still hanging there long past the time she had either the Kirby or the Eureka.
The odd thing is, her Eureka also had a green woven vinyl hose and the newer-style rug nozzle, with the long curved neck and the little metal flip-tab to activate the brush strip. I remember that very clearly, because for some reason she used that floor tool with her Kirby, stuck on the end of the gray plastic wand.
She was fairly tall, so she had to hunch over a bit to use it. She'd vigorously scrape away at the carpet with that nozzle, moving it rapidly back and forth. She kept the Kirby in the living room closet just by the front door, hose attached, draped over the coat rack with the wand and Eureka rug nozzle attached.
I never figured out why she did that instead of just using the Eureka which surely had more straight suction power. Maybe she suffered from the same "Sweeper Laziness" that my mom did...!
