What the EFF???

[portable]

<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, geneva;">Ain't this just the cutest lil' ol' thang?? I LOVE it!</span>



http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-REG...CLEANER-/350991372679?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

 

[tolivac]

Thats a pretty neat little canister vac-assume that it has a cloth dump bag.When the front is removed-sort of looks like a portable TV!This would be a good little canister vac to serve as a "companion" vac to an upright.

 

[kenkart]

Thats one of..

Jimmy Martins, it,like most all Canadian vacuums,is very powerful.

 

[funvacfan]

Super Cool

design.

 

[countryguy]

When I was a kid I remember seeing it in the McLeod's store in the small town where I lived.

Gary

 

[rugsucker]

"Ain't this -cute?"

Yes it is !As my description says-"a work of art".Only one I have ever found.In Canada they can be Viking,etc with slightly different styling on same body.Similar can be seen on D Smith's newest(and Exellent!) site.I think this one is the best combination of trim and styling.It would have also used paper bag.I don't have any but should be plenty in Canada or elsewhere.

 

[eurekaprince]

My Grandma Rose had a similar Regina in the late 1960's. It was called the Regina Sanitron, and I think it was made by Switson in Welland, Ontario, Canada. That Regina plant was also producing all our "bagless" Electrikbrooms. My grandmother's version was light brown with a matching light brown vinyl hose, not a Eureka-like woven hose as shown in this eBay ad. It came with a brown carpet nozzle but all the other attachments were grey. They stored in their own cardboard tool carrier, which also held a felt attachment so that you could dust floors with the carpet nozzle.

I think that Welland vacuum plant eventually was bought by Smith-Corona Marchant who began producing Iona Electrikbrooms. Then it was turned into the first Fantom Technologies plant.

 

[collector2]

Jimmy is quite right. The cloth bag is only a filter and was not made to be easily removable. Paper bags were available for that machine.

It would have come with a blue or white rug nozzle and all white parts as well as a curved wand and two straight wands and a cardboard tool kit.

You can see another version of it on my web page with the parts.

Doug