What are your favorite Private Label Machines?

[myhooverco]

Seamus...here is your photo of the Hoover Constellation model 444. Enjoy!

--Tom

 

[seamusuk]

Erm......

Thats 4 more lol- the bag on the blue one is very odd!!, those WA models look to be in excellent condition

 

[seamusuk]

Very cool

Guess we must both be posting at once!

 

[convertible68]

Wow, that "box top" bag on the Western Auto is very cool indeed; I thought only Eurekas had those!

 

[eluxomarty]

Tom

I have that same green Penncrest that you have. I bought it at the last convention from Glenn Dienst. I have also have a set of Penncrest attachments!

Now here is the horrible part. I was in a thrift store several years ago and i see this off white Hoover hose hanging on a hook. It is attached to a blue tank cleaner. It was a Penncrest tank ala the Holiday! Light blue with the Penncrest "P" on the side of the tank where the round Hoover logo would have gone. I didn't but it. I left it there! I still kick myself for that one! Ugh!

Marty

 

[myhooverco]

Marty...YIKES...you passed up the Penncrest "Economy" cleaner. Those have to be rare. Oh well hind sight is always 20/20. If we could all go back and grab the ones that got away. I had forgotten about the poor "Economy" model. Thanks for reminding me. I hope to add one to my collection one day.

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here are my Penncrest "Attachment Tools". I have only the boxes and one tool bag for a Dial A Matic for Penneys. In one of these boxes found by eagle eyed Jeff Parker, was a headlight lens for my blue Penneys cord reel! Thanks again Jeff for your help on that one!

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is another 1973 JCPenney upright with a headlight in yellow.

 

[myhooverco]

A closer look...

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a late 70's JCPenney cleaner with the box top bag. This must have been their deluxe model. This one still has the metal chasis and front conversion for the tools. So Hoover must have made them not only for Western Auto but for Penneys too.

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a closer look...I did find out that Brasso will take lettering off of hoods! So the JCPenney is a little hard to see. Live and Learn!

 

[myhooverco]

Here is another view of the bag...

 

[scott55405]

Wow, Western Auto too, I did not know about that one, nor have I ever seen any Hoover product with that Eureka style square top bag! I just love learning all these new things.

I'm thinking the "Penncrest" brand name may have disappeared about the time they stopped using that stylized P for their logo and they were trying to modernize with that new logo as shown on the 1973 machines, so I suppose in the very early 70s.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Some of mine...

I have a few private labeled machines...

First up... a Penneys Floor A Matic

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Close Up

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[hoovercelebrity]

Next Up...

A Montgomery Wards upright cleaner...

Joe actually spotted this at a thrift store, called me, described it, and I made him buy it! It wasn't until he got it home that he noticed the "by Hoover" on the hood.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Bag closeup

It also has an orange/brown handle grip (same color as the hood).

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Tom...

This one is for you.... literally. I almost threw it away when I moved, but Jeff told me to save it for you. I just want to clean it up a bit before I send it to you... Or maybe I should hold it ransom, to get you to come up to Milwaukee to finally see my collection.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Info Tag

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[myhooverco]

ooohhh ouch! Wow great Penneys cleaners. I so WANT that Pencrest Slimline...I am drooling! I have the same MW upright that you have pictured. I really like the Floor A Matic model too. I will have to come up someday to see your collection in person. I know that I would be among friends there! Thanks for the pics...

--Tom

 

[hoovercelebrity]

And, Finally......

Here is a link to some photos I took, and quickly whipped up into a webpage. I was given this binder at work, when we were doing some cleaning a year or two back... It was a Penncrest service manual, used for cross referencing part numbers, should a Penneys cleaner come into a Hoover store for a repair. Eurekas, too. I didn't take a picture of all of the models, just randomly flipped through the binder and took some shots.

Enjoy!

Marty~ The Holiday you passed on is in there...



http://homepage.mac.com/fredstachnik/PhotoAlbum25.html

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Last one, I promise...

Forgot about this...

I fixed this machine for a neighbor, didn't know she had it... somehow she managed to get a woodchip lodged in the fan. I gave it a real good once over, and expressed interest in it, should she ever tire of it, and want to send it on to its next life.

Very pretty machine! While I had it, I took pictures of it!

a "Power Propelled" Upright Vacuum Cleaner by JCPenney

 

[scott55405]

That is so cool! So many things I never knew existed! Slimlines, Floor a Matics, the whole ball of wax! That Concept type unit had to have been there when I was working there, but for whatever reason all that sticks out in my mind are JCPenney-labeled Eureka Ironside Canisters with power nozzles. Then again, they may have had a broader selection in the downtown Minneapolis and Southdale stores (Southdale is a suburban mall, but that store was much larger than ours).

And I've never seen a Wards unit made by Hoover! Only Eureka.

This has been like the coolest thread ever, as I have learned so much!!

 

[scott55405]

Very interesting Fred! The cleaner you have marked with a ??? is a Eureka-made unit, I've seen them with the Eureka name.

I see they were sourcing a few things from Eureka even way back.

Were there ever any Hoovers sold under the Hoover name with that square Eureka type bag? Do those hold type A or type C bags?

 

[myhooverco]

Here is Penneys version of the Decade 80...to me it is very plain...

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a close up...

 

[ian88]

Very similar, colour scheme wise, to my hoover powerplus (early 80s hoover senior)

Ian

 

[myhooverco]

Here is my version of the Penneys Concept cleaner. There is no headlight on this version...Oh...the Decade cleaner that I have in my collection was a gift from Mike Rogers in Highland, IN...Thanks Mike!!!

--Tom

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a close up...not sure on the date on this one...how about all of that LOUD orange trim!!!

 

[myhooverco]

Here is a very basic JCPenney cleaner from the early 1980s. It has one speed and a headlight and uses C bags. Very basic but a nice cleaner...