vacuums I have aquired in the past few weeks
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brandon_w_t
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Wow!
Great finds! You dont see many of those early filter queens, and that chrome one looks perfect!
Great finds! You dont see many of those early filter queens, and that chrome one looks perfect!
electrolux~137
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">That brown and chrome Filter Queen was the first model I ever saw. Didn't even know the company existed.
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">When I was living on Gywnns Island in Virginia (where we moved in 1965), the church initially had an old lady named Fanny Godsey who was the custodian. The church had a Model R Electrolux (with no power nozzle). When Miss Fanny finally waxed her last pew and retired, they hired as a custodial team a young man and his wife who had just moved onto the Island.</span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">One day I was over at the church snooping around. I looked in one of the custodian's closets and what to wondering eyes should appear but a gloriously beautiful chrome and chocolate canister vacuum cleaner, AND a new industrial floor polisher!! Oh my, what treats! Of COURSE, I had to try them both out. I could not believe the suction power the Filter Queen had; and, oh Lordy Be, it had a power nozzle!</span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">I won't say much about the big cast-iron floor polisher except to say that it did not mix well with a scrawny 12-year-old kid.......</span>
aeoliandave
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Nice lineup, Zachary. Giving us other Canadians green vapours of mild envy. 
Speaking of green...not 'just' a Big Wheel...that surely looks for all the world like a 1958 Lewyt Model 111 Electronic. I.E. the second power nozzle model with electric hose carrying high amp/low voltage DC. That would be the very definition of 'RARE'.
Any chance you got the electric wands and PN?
Please confirm. You know the Model number is imprinted on the exterior hinge plate.
Dave
(and if you ever decide to sell it let me know, please)
Speaking of green...not 'just' a Big Wheel...that surely looks for all the world like a 1958 Lewyt Model 111 Electronic. I.E. the second power nozzle model with electric hose carrying high amp/low voltage DC. That would be the very definition of 'RARE'.
Any chance you got the electric wands and PN?
Please confirm. You know the Model number is imprinted on the exterior hinge plate.
Dave
(and if you ever decide to sell it let me know, please)
collector2
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LOL Dave:
It is the Lewyt 111 same as I have. And without the PN or parts from the look of it (Right Zach?) same as mine too. Those PN's are like hens teeth. (Anyone have a spare or two they want to get rid of???)
Doug
It is the Lewyt 111 same as I have. And without the PN or parts from the look of it (Right Zach?) same as mine too. Those PN's are like hens teeth. (Anyone have a spare or two they want to get rid of???)
Doug
vacman117
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Could you please post some up close shots of the chrome Filter Queen? And does it have a power nozzle port? If not, then that might have been the model my grandparents bought in the 70's..
Chase
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omg your right i had no idea that this came with a power nozzel but after some closer examination i have found that yes it did come with one thanks for pointing that out i had no idea i think it is a model three that is all it says on the back i dont know if that is right but i have realized that the hose has been compermised and i dont think it will pass current anymore it has been cut and no i only have the hose and no attachments.
kirbyvertibles
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I have a model 111 also but mine has a blue hose just like this green one.
That Filter Queen!!!
Is a Chrome model 500, produced between 1955 and 1960, it is rare in that most were gold hammertone painted and were called the Golden Monarch, the chrome model cost the dealer 10.00 more, so there are not nearly as many of them, and no these did not have a power nozzle, and they had a saran braided hose.
Is a Chrome model 500, produced between 1955 and 1960, it is rare in that most were gold hammertone painted and were called the Golden Monarch, the chrome model cost the dealer 10.00 more, so there are not nearly as many of them, and no these did not have a power nozzle, and they had a saran braided hose.
henry200
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I have never seen a chrome 500 Filter Queen before. It's beautiful! I like that Lewyt too. I'd say you made off like a bandit!!!
henry200
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I love the shoe bag tool holder! I improvised something along that line with a Silver King once.....I tied a carpenter's pocket apron on it to hold the small attachments.
