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<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This booklet, produced at about the time of the Model 541 Hoover, is a very rare item. This is only the 2nd time I have seen it for sale. I have one, and I cherish it. This would make a fine addition to a serious collector's paper collection. (on eBay).</span>


 



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Is that the book I read?

Hi John:

Is that the book you sent to me to share at the meeting I held in Naperville that you couldn't attend? If so, it's awesome. A lot of great Hoover info in that book.

Alex Taber.
 
Great Hoover book & more

The same seller (not me) also has some Hoover company employee newsletters.
I have only seen the copies of the book and as above it interesting and informative.It has no information however on the hoses and Dusting Tools.Hoover made more & more of their own parts as they were able.One example was the motor.Early Hoovers had motors from other sources but as this book will show they later made their own in new and expanded Hoover factory buildings.Does anyone know when Hoover made or bought hoses & attachments?
This and the newsletters are not just Hoover history but could be typical of American manufacturing and employee relations in that era.The Hoover employees pictured may now have great grandchildren working less than 39 hours at McDonalds and hoping for a part time Christmas job at Wal Mart but it was not always so.I was told by an older gentleman who lived near N Canton that Hoover would visit schools in the region looking for bright mechanically inclined students of whom many became long time Hoover engineers.
(There is also a rare war time Hoover book showing the 'last' Hoover,wartime products and preparation for the post war years.)
 
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I've never made copies of this book for anyone. I've never even seen it before, didn't even know it existed until I saw the eBay auction.

And as to that, all I can say to CoffeeCanMan is, I hope you have very, very deep pockets. There are a few collectors with seemingly limitless budgets whose mouths I'm sure are watering mightily over this book.
 
I wouldn't say my pockets are limitless, but I'm fairly certain there's enough in them to win a $500 booklet. I'd like to make copies of this to be shared with you all, as it should be. Not hidden away in a dusty pile to be re-discovered when I die.
 
I, too, would love to see/have that book.

However,  my pockets are well-monitored, lolo  by myself.  I'm also not greedy. I'd gladly let it go to another collector.  I have a few marvelous HOOVER books.... some signed by HOOVER employees.  I'm grateful.


  Best of luck to the other bidders.


 John
 
Wow, John - thank you for posting this. I have a copy of this book that you sent me many many years ago - it's one of my most cherished pieces of Hoover Ephemera.

To have an original copy would be incredible. I do hope that this lands with someone who doesn't lock it away to never see the light of day again. To be able to scan this at high resolution and put into a PDF, and to share it with the rest of the world would be amazing.

-F
 
High resolution scan to PDF is exactly what I'd do. I have a bunch of manuals I have already done this to, including many early Hoover manuals. I'm in the process of editing and compiling them and will make them available to the public in the near future.
 
Really Charles:
I was certain it was YOU who made my photocopy (excellent quality copy). Perhaps I got it from Fred S.? When you are as old as I cam, It's hard to remember more than a decade ago. In any event, I refer to it a lot, as it details the change from the Robbins and Meyers built motors to the new Hoover-built motors, as well as shows the entire process of manufacturing a model 541.

As to what price the booklet may go for, Miss Pupek's pockets are VERY deep. She normally does Robobidder at $1000 to trump anyone else's bid at the very last second. She paid almost $900 for a Rexair instruction manual for the model 3.
 
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It actually wasn't MR. Pupek to whom I was referring, but another collector in Allentown PA whose silos-full of paper ephemera are legendary -- locked away more tightly than the gold in Fort Knox.
 
Well, they both have silo's. Can you imagine how much vacuum history will be available to the earth once those two 'pass on'? I know my collection is very large, but it will be sold WAY before I even retire (8 more years). Those two gals have such a huge collection, that they literally have 1 of EVERYTHING ever made with vacs.
 
'm certain that:

I'll NOT win that book,  as I won't spend ourtrageous sums of money,


I won't bid just to "screw" someone else,


I won't join in a pi...ng match


I won't belittle another member by referring to them as MISS.


 


Plenty has been said about me too,  behind my back... amazing how those things "surface".


 


 The high road is really not traveled as much as it should be.


 Good luck to the winner of that book.  I'm most fortunate to own the things I own.  I'm sure Tom (A.) will allow me to copy anything from his collection. And vice versa.
 
CoffeCanMan

I agree with John. I also will not bid since you were the first to even say that you were bidding. Thanks again for the information on the NNS Pig.
 
A few people have informed me that the seller is an unsavory character. It's been paid for, and I'm sure he won't jeopardize his rating of over 2500 / 100% positive feedback on eBay to pull any funny business at this point. I'm glad to relieve him of his ownership duties and give it a safe home in my fire-proof safe.
 
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Congratulations on your win! I agree the final bid was surprisingly low, all things considered. I've seen vintage vacuum cleaner paper ephemera go for much more than that.

Look forward to getting a PDF of it! :)
 
As Tom commented

In the old days of the VCCC it was great, we shared what we had, no one worried about getting rich off 1 item, back then we would have copied that book and given it to the members, Charles Lester sent me free of charge a ton of old literature, because he is a FRIEND , same with Tom G , he has given me tons of stuff, just because I was a friend..
 
I was given a BEAUTIFUL copy of that very book, many years ago. It was around the time I was President of the VCCC (for six years). Fred S. also provided me with a ton of early Hoover literature, which I made copies of and gave to friends. The Vacuum Cleaner Museum is also the recipient of lots of this type of literature, from former salesmen as well as vacuum shops and dealers. I was recently given a Hoover Home Economics book, from 1929, breaking down every piece of the model 725, including the motor, explaining how it all worked together, and even had lessons for the Home Economics class that would have been studying that book. Copies of that book will be available free at the Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Convention in June at the Vacuum Cleaner Museum (always the second weekend, thurs thru sat, in June every year). We have THREE filing cabinets full of this kind of literature, and brochures, and manuals - plus we have an awesome copy machine (color). While you are at the convention, don't forget the literature. You're free to make all the copies you want.
 

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