What are your favorite Private Label Machines?

[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

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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...