Under My Xmas Tree

[chestermikeuk]

These arrived from a good friend who deceided to have a clear out, am glad he did!!!!!

A trusty Hoover 613 and an impressive Airway...love the clear dust chamber and I think its an original bag??

Did they come with the handles green or has it been painted??can anyone tell me anymore??

Cheers, Mike

 

[vacuumkid3]

I AM NOT SURE...but seeing most of the Air-Ways, I would say its been painted. You might want to check with an ADULT on that, but I am pretty sure they were all black.

~~K~~, a mere child

 

[air-waycharlie]

Air-Way "Green Goddess"

Mike and Kyle:

That Air-Way definately is NOT painted! That is the very rare and wonderful "Green Goddess" model. Mike you have received a wonderful vintage Air-Way that is very hard to find.

The "Green Goddess" was the same vacuum as the Air-Way with the black handle. I'm not sure if the attachments/tools and hose were green or not. Yours is only about the 5th I have ever seen.

Member Stan Hagan in Milwaukee has a MINT, MINT one that he purchased on ebay and it made ME green with envy when I saw it. The person that owned it only used it to "fluff" the feathers of pillows.

To do that, (it was a selling feature of Air-Ways at the time), you remove the floor nozzle, paper bag and outer cloth bag. You would attach an empty pillow case where the bag went on and then suck up the feathers with the opening where the floor nozzle attached. The feather would get "fluffed up" by going through the fan.

It could also be done by reversing the swivel dome allowing the suction to go through the hollow handle. You could use the end of the handle to suck up the feathers and they would go into the cloth bag that way as well.

You have received a wonderful gift and take good care of it. The bag looks original. Does it have a genuine wood pulp cellulose bag inside the cloth bag? Those are rather hard to come by. You can always modify another bag, (Hoover W Handisac or even the new Kirby Filtrete)to fit in.

Tell us, how does it run and sound? Thanks for posting the picture as now members can see the rare and beautiful, "Green Goddess".

 

[vacuumkid3]

WOW! I would've never guessed! I learn something new everyday!

~~K~~

 

[air-waycharlie]

Kyle,

If we could just get Tania Voigt to post once in a while! She has a wealth of knowledge about Air-Way and could probably even tell us what years it was made.

PAGING TANIA! COME IN TANIA!...........OVER.......

 

[ohio_tuec]

I have two Green Goddesses, one sold to me by club member Roger Proehl. The Green Goddess was introduced in 1932, and according to Tom Gasko, was produced right up until the late '30's being sold alongside the Air-Way Dirtmaster. How I would love to have one of those!

 

[air-waycharlie]

Mr. Tuec............

If you ever find an extra Green Goddess, please let me know! I have just about given up on the Dirtmaster.

 

[ohio_tuec]

Please, call me Karl Ohio Tuec is my handle, since it's my all-time favorite vintage vac. I will definitely keep you in mind. One of my Green Godesses has a rubber covered cord, the other a braided cord. I'm sure at some point, I will have to downsize my collection. I'd give my right eye for a DirtMasteR though. Tom Gasko makes it sound as if they're still around. I have yet to see one....

 

[myhooverco]

I learned something today...I never knew that there was a variation in the Airway production. Why did they choose green? Were there other colors too? Was the green only in certain years? Thanks for the pictures...I like your 613! Are those older Hoover uprights hard to find in the UK?

--Tom

 

[charles~richard]

The Green Goddess

IS a beautiful and very, very, very rare machine. The only one I have seen in captivity is Stan Kann's. If you look at the motor housing you will note that the serial number plate is also green.

I too would love to have one of these, and the favulous DirtMaster. Oh, if only!!

Lord help us if one of these ever shows up on eBay... I have a feeling either of them would set a new world record for the most expensive vacuum cleaner sale on eBay!!

 

[ohio_tuec]

1932 Green Goddess

Funny you should say that - the other Green Goddess I have I bought off eBay! It didn't sell for very much because the transparent celluloid dial was broken, and the aluminum pretty dirty and tarnished. Unfortunately, the paint flakes off pretty easy on these cleaners. I didn't even know it was a Green Goddess until I got it, the pictures were pretty fuzzy. If nothing else, I'd like to have a twin-motors Air-Way. Those I've only seen maybe a handful of times on eBay.

 

[ohio_tuec]

And did you know Air-Way sold factory refurbished models? I have one such machine, a model B, which says right on the plate "Rebuilt by - Air Way Electric Appliance Co." I guess these were sold at a lower price point - to compete with the Hoover "Specials."

 

[hygiene903]

Nice vacs

under the tree, Mike! Your Hoover 613 looks just like the 63. And the Airway, I never saw a green one before either. Both great machines, congratulations on being the lucky recipient of these gifts!!
Jeff

 

[sukething]

I am not sure if he still has it anymore but...

My first time I have ever seen a green handle air-way is in O'dowds Vacuum in Omaha, when I first visited his store in 1975-76, when he buffed out my favorite GE upright which I still have. I thought how od to have that lime green colored handle on such an old machine, thinking in my head how dark colors were in years past not having a lime green as a color.

Byron O'dowd then worked on my vacuums for many years after that and he and his wife have been good friends all these years.

David

 

[ohio_tuec]

Wow, I'm surprised he still had machines like that then. By the '70's, the Air-Way Sanitary Systems had already been discontinued for 30 some-odd years. Do you remember him having others? Did he still have bags? The Sanitizors are nice, but the Sanitary Systems continue to be my all-time Air-Way favorite.