UK Meet 2009

[chestermikeuk]

Heres a few pics from our meet-up over the bank holiday weekend, having done Hoover 100th last year we wanted to concentrate on Electrolux & others, I had such a good time doing & enjoying that I only took a few pics, BUt others took loads so I`m sure they will post later!!

What we tried to get together was a "Wall of UK Lux" from 1920`s up to 80`s, Alistair (Vacbear58) diligently worked through the timeline placing all the vacs in chronological order and also withing the 3 areas of budget, middle and de-luxe!!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Arriving

Here is Seamus (SeamusUK)on right and Matt (Bendixdelux from AW) arriving with a gift for moi, a fab Electrolux Z90 holy vac grail, been wanting one for ages, thanks guys, also completed our timeline pics!!! Yay...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Lux Z90

heres me and Seamus with the fab Electrolux Z90 vaccuum..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Electrolux Z90

Produced 1965, colourway sage green ribbed plastic with ebossed Electrolux logo, complete with flip over floor tool, two way butterfly brush, sprayer & crevice tool..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Parnall 1010

Here`s Alistairs Parnall vac complete with vibrabeat!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Oy..!!! Stop Peaking

A theme was emerging!!! this was being kept under wraps

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoint UK Collection

We where trying to pull together all members Hotpoint machines for a timeline, Al (vacbear58) gladly brought with him his hotpoint cylinder, also Rob, Paul & myself managed to get the infamous Hotpoint Swallow that has been doing the rounds recently!!! here we have Hotpoint models form the 1930`s through to the 70`s

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoints

being put through their paces the Hotpoint Light n Easy & the Hotpoint Swallow...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Pics

Jack (VintageHoover) taking a few snaps!!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Ohh all that work!!!

Time to get the mixers out!!!

 

[ohio_tuec]

Hotpoints

I love first two Hotpoints on the left! The bags have a very similar design to the Premiers of the same era here in the states.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Get the Milk poured...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Time For Tea...

Delicious Banana Loaf along with Lemon Cake with marshmellow and lemon drizzle topping, along with golden cookies...and Tea of course....

 

[chestermikeuk]

All Those White Cloths to Clean

Ohh which machine to use!!! Matt from kent taking control!!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Back to Work...!!!

Jack & Al getting "Timeline Arty" more from the guys later...

A cream cake for getting the number right bottom to top??

 

[arh1953]

Nice gathering!

Your home and all those mixers are lovely. The treats are frustrating me as I am having my morning coffee. Also the two Hotpoint vacuums are fascinating. I especially like the newer one. What a "no nonsense" machine.

 

[chestermikeuk]

All done

Ready for dinner and more vactalk!!! thanks to Alistair for making delicious dinners, cakes & biscuits, you`ll see more pics later...over to you guys!!!

left to right
Jack (VintageHoover), Alistair (Vacbear58), Moi (ChesterMikeUK), Paul (MatchboxPaul), Mathew (Keymatic3203), Seamus (SeamusUK), Richard (RichUKBristol), Matt (Bendixdeluxe)

 

[vacbear58]

It was a great weekend

.... and as you can see from the picture above I could not WAIT to get my hands on Mike's jugs!
Al

 

[vacbear58]

The wall of Lux

We managed to get and example of every UK postwar Lux (branded as Lux I mean) from 1945 to 1985 or maybe a little bit longer. Another cream cake to the person who can list the missing models.

As Mike said, they are arranged in market segment and time order left to right