vintage vacuum cleaners

vintagerepairer · Nov 12, 2012

Dyson logo

That was the font which Dyson used on their UK cleaners from 1992 until 1996. It was then changed to the soft lowercase font which is still in use today. But the tools supplied with Dyson cleaners still featured the older logo stamped into the plastic, for a good deal of time after the printed logos were changed.

sebo_fan · Nov 12, 2012

Hurrah for these old photos! Good to see the Goblin Rio Reflex: the lower model without variable suction (Rio 1000) was one of the first cylinders I ever bought. Never saw a "Stylelectric," upright before though - who made those??

vintagerepairer · Nov 12, 2012

The stylectric was a cleaner which carried many names, including Spinney, and as you will see in the second picture, Vortice. I think it was a pseudo Hoover Senior. I never saw a single example in all my years, I only saw pictures.

dysondestijl · Nov 12, 2012

i still have one of the DC01's with the old logo. still works!! apart from discoloration there was absolutely no damage to it until it fell over a few months back and one of the wheel arches snapped off!

paulc · Nov 12, 2012

Stylectric.....

is it not an updated version of a vacuum that was sold under the spinney name in the 70's? I know someone posted pictures of the version they had just aquired, I can't for the life of me remember who it was or what the cleaner was called. It was pale blue.

paulc · Nov 12, 2012

Found it!

It's Vacbear's Colston upright, I must say the Stylectric is quite similar in my eyes.

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?17264

vacbear58 · Nov 12, 2012

stylelectric

I would need a closer look when I get home from holiday but I think Benny is right about the Stylelectric
I posted about a slightly earlier version a few months back only in this case it was called Colston 301
As Benny says very like a Senior/Convertable and manufactured in Italy. Never saw that variation of a Light and Easy before either too
Al

vintagerepairer · Nov 12, 2012

Vacbear, by 'light & easy' do you mean the ex-Hotpoint cleaner? These carried on for a good deal of years, well into the 1990, by which time they had foot operated on/off switches, and a round handle identical to that of the electric carpet sweepers. By this time they also had two plastic hooks attached to the handle to store the mains lead instead of a pocket on the dust bag. A version exisits with a large bow on the front cover, the bow being the logo of the Empire Stores catalouge.

The thing about these cheap cleaners was that they never seemed to come in for repair, so I saw so very few of them. One could be forgiven for thinking they obviously didn't break down, but I suspect the truth is they did not last for long and were never all that good when new, so when they did go wrong people may not have wanted to throw good money after bad. If one considers also these cleaners could be purchased on weekly terms, I would hazard a guess that the consumer may not even have noticed the repayments to any notable extent, thus cushioning the blow when the cleaner broke down.

I saw many Goblin and Moulinex cleaners come for repair. It struck me that these cleaners retailed for a price where the consumer would consider a repair.