Vintage Vacuums you LUST AFTER!!!!

[kenkart]

The one pictured !

Is older, it has a screw type hose connection, similar to an Apex, you turn the knurled area and the rubber ring swells up and holds it into the cleaner, the next generation had a rubber cuff with a pushbutton type thing, this was used thru the first swiveltops.

 

[vacbear58]

GE Out with the old, and in with the new

"I have no doubt there was a painted entry level model in brown or gray" Apparently there was, although I think its a bit unusual for them to use it to this effect in their own commercials

Al

 

[tolivac]

The vintage machines I would like---NSS Bronco,Kirby C,Lewyt Big wheel.And more of the older compacts-the Polishaire attachment,and the Electrolux air powered polisher attachments.the Compacts that come in the hassock type storage case.

 

[danemodsandy]

Dave:

I was almost certain I'd seen a photo of one in turquoise, but if one was never made, then the off-white would be loverly.

Someday. Someday.

 

[frank1002us]

There is a grey GE AVT-811 on ebay. it is not what you are looking for, but it could get you closer to finding the model number of your ge

 

[massagemiracle]

I saw that on Ebay! I have it in my watch! I have never seen that model of G.E., totally different.

 

[hoover719]

Is anyone interesting in talking on a metal Hoover Convertible, like the models I have posted earlier in this thread?

@vacbear58:
I just love that commercial! It is hilarious, in my opinion!

 

[frank1002us]

@ massagemiracle
the body mold seems to be identical with the one posted earlier and it has the same hose. It just has a full lenght top instead of the handle and the feet are different. I am not familiar with GE vacuums but it seems to be within the same line and probably within a year or two.

 

[kenkart]

The Last GE Tank!

Fred S has one, it is square with the newer style push button lock attachments.

 

[collector2]

Hey Ben:

Is this what you are thinking of? Its a Premier though (aka rebranded GE lol)

Doug

 

[collector2]

or the all grey premier

 

[collector2]

Brown GE but it has the type of hose connection I think you are thinking of.

 

[massagemiracle]

This last one  the General Electric is  one I been talking about! Only difference is  mine was grey, I could live with it!


Man that is a beautiful machine!  Should you ever want to part with that !

 

[aeoliandave]

The fabled last GE tank, the AVT-815. I was tempted to take Fred's to my room but settled for cuddling up next to it in the diningroom. LOL I luv this GE and it is definitely on my wish list.


 


I thought you had one, Hans but now I think it is someone else here who has one tucked under a table or shelf unit loaded with other vintage treasures - I remember the picture thread and the bronze 815 fairly leapt out at me at the time.


 


Here's another picture of one from Doug Smith's late lamented site. Oh, how we miss your site, Doug!


Note the gray tool squarish styling of the mid 50s GE Swiveltop canisters, the same tool set in turquoise Cycolac came with the first R-1 Roll-Easy. The second generation R-1 featured the newly designed 'ribbed' tools.


 


But no flip-over floor/carpet nozzle for the 815...


 


Dave

 

[aeoliandave]

Speaking of curlycue feet, Doug has a picture of a red one with the side strips.

 

[massagemiracle]

Dave...

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I remember spotting this model in Fred's collection, and in the pictures that were posted from the convention last year. A beautiful model, but I would love to have that one Doug has! Or find one like it! </span>

 

[collector2]

You're going to shoot me Ben. I gave away one of those GE's last year. Sorry.

 

[massagemiracle]

That red one with the chrome front is really the closest to looking like our old one!


Thats ok Doug, I'm sure someone has one somewhere!


Should anyone want to trade my 86 Constellation that is!

 

[kenkart]

Square GE!

I DID have one years ago and let someone talk me out of it...ain't I a dummy!!! I have done that several times in my younger days, oh well you live and learn!

 

[floor-a-matic]

I should've kept the box for my 1985 TriStar CXL!

Now I'll have to find a nice MIB Compact to make up for the missing box.

I'd do ANYTHING for a Compact NIB.

 

[xraytech]

For me it would be:
Hoover 150 ensemble
Hoover Convertible 68 all original
Hoover Convertible 704-01
Any Penncrest/JCPenney badged Hoovers, especially the cord reel uprights
would do almost anything to have a NIB metal base Convertible
would love an early Convertible tool set with the ultraflex hose and cardboard caddy.

 

[venson]

Speaking of GE . . .

There is one canister that I have only seen once. Back in the very early 1960s General Electric came out with a canister just like the green and chrome "Cord-reel Cleaner" we came to know so well.

This machine however bore a bronze or copper-toned lid and base but the same chrome upper portion as the green model. What was unique about this specific vac was that it was the first GE can to have a power nozzle. Not that that there were that many power nozzles on canisters at the time to make comparisons with, this model's PN was original by way of design.

I am assuming it disappeared because it just didn't take off on in the market. It was a good while -- years -- before I saw a try at the idea by GE -- without that specific PN. I have forgotten the model number and only know the brand and that saw it in the vacuum department at Strawbridge & Clothier in Philadelphia. I have never seen or heard of it since. That's a machine I'd love to find now in mint condition.

 

[massagemiracle]

Looking at these fantastic General Electric Canister models makes me sick I can't find one. Yes "Lust" was the correct word for what I feel about wanting one of them.

 

[djtaylor]

I'd give just about anything for a Bison with attachments or one of the Com Vac commercial Kirbys to go along with my Super Vac 180.
Justin

 

[sebo_fan]

Currently on Ebay.co.uk - an upright my grandmother had, and up until this evening was only told about it by my mother when she saw me looking at the machine - and there was me thinking she always had a Hoover Junior. Absolutely gorgeous model, a Hoover Senior 638 complete with cleaning ensemble.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-H...um_Cleaners&hash=item20c22ab921#ht_500wt_1204

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Electrolux AF with original power nozzle.
Compact C-5 with ABC power nozzle and,
Lewyt Electronic with power nozzle any model
Hoover convertible golden 65

 

[tolivac]

Other ones to add to my list-an older Certified Pile Lifter-and Bison vacuums.

 

[eurekaprince]

I guess I would love to recreate the the vacuum "world&#

First - believe it or not - one of those General Electric cyclinder vacs! But it needs to be the exact one: Light brown tools and hose with a light brown main body and dark brown ends. It looked very similar to the one picture here:

 

[massagemiracle]

If the GE that is red and with the chrome end were grey that would be ours. Remember if anyone has one to trade, I have a Constellation 86 !!

 

[eurekaprince]

Then of course, I would die to have my beloved turquoise Eureka Automatic Upright again - I think it was model 260. I would want the full set of tools too - in the matching turquoise cardboard carrier.

The specific version of the Automatic would have to be a 1959 model which has the earlier Eureka graphic on the bag: A small vertical rectangle with the "curvey E" at the top and the word 'Automatic" running downward in the rectangle. The vac looks very, very similar to the one shown in this display (Letter "M"), except the headlight frame was silver, not the 1957 anniversary gold colour: