What on earth??!

[electrolux137]

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Was this a real Filter Queen model, or is it a product of someone's basement workshop??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Fil...e9810424d6a9d1657eba51ed2c3&pid=100022&rk=4&r

 

[vacman1961]

Charlie, I was wondering the same thing until I realized that those round circular areas above the hose inlet and again in the back probably once housed a carrying handle. It definitely was home made, pretty innovative I might say. The machine and can was painted with hammertone gold paint. If you remember the model 530, commercial Filter Queen there was a cone locator at the bottom of the dirt container, this bucket does not have any cone locator which is pretty much a give away, from what I remember all Filter Queens had a cone locator at the bottom of the dust container. Also, I think being this tall the machine would be a bit top heavy and fall over, again the commercial model 530 had a very wide base to prevent the taller dust container from allowing the machine to tip over.

 

[tolivac]

I have a commercial FQ vacuum that is grey in color.It has the wide base dust container and still can be used with FQ cones.It needs a new hose-Its hose got damaged in a move.If I use it-have to "borrow" a hose from one of my other FQ vacuums.Also my commercial one does not have the tool "crown".Whats funky is the machine has a 2 wire cord-guess it was built in the days before commercial vacs had to have 3 wire cords.My grey machine is all metal and has very heavy duty container clamps-kinda like the ones on "roadie" cases.