What was your first Turbopower sighting/using?

[vacuumlover]

When was the very first time you seen your first Turbopower? Same as using it.

My first sighting was when I was about 9 or 10 (ish)it was an elderly couple up the street using a Turbopower Plus UB088 to clean their car. Oh how I remember that

I kind of remember hearing some neighbors using them but never thought about it as I wasn't into vacuums then.

My very first time using a Turbopower was when I was 14 around winter time and that was using the Turbopower Total system U2716.(Albeit with a knackered bulb) For anyone who doesn't know that's why the U2716 is more special to me I specifically remember the scent of the air freshener. The generic round disc ones "Summer meadows" Oh how a wiff of that brings back memories!

So I'm just curious as to what everyone else's is.

 

[parwaz786]

oh xD cool
I never touched one for more than 2 secs lol, I seen like 500 kabillion at carboots. From Hoover turbopower juniors to TP2's to the original TP and the TP3 I think?
Anyways once we were walking home from the park when I was like 10 I think and in the alley way there was an UPRIGHT vacuuum standing right there like it was a dog in a cage, that pose tho!
Anyways it looked like a Hoover elite like the one Alex imported for America and its that one in the mrs doubtfire scene thing, but found out they aint British vacs so I assume its a TP1. It was either red or marroon and has a black hose on the side like an Elite or something IDK

 

[turbomaster1984]

The first Turbopower I ever saw was the Burgundy U2184 first generation that my second cousin twice removed had.

It was used to clean a 6 bedroom mini mansion farm in Styal, S.Manchester.

I never got to use it, I just remember it under the stairs in the huge hall room they had.

First time I saw one used was our next door but 1 neighbours who had the first generation Regal Blue U2186 Autoflex. That was also the first time I also saw how the tools connected.

I didnt actuall use a turbopower until around 1990 when friends of my parents let me oovah the pub they had with the Wedgewood Green U2332.....

 

[vacuumlover]

@parwaz786 @turbomaster1984

@parwaz786 ~ Wish I could find loads of Turbopowers in Derby

@turbomaster1984 ~ very nice

 

[vintagerepairer]

Being very old

as I am, my first sighting was when they went on sale. The had adverts on TV, were featured in magazines, and of course in the Hoover booklets -whether stand-alone Turbopower booklets or combined with the whole range of Hoover cleaners.

Prior to the Turbopower, Hoovers upright range was looking very dated. The choice of hard-bag upright cleaners had been blossming throughout the 1970's, yet Hoover never really did much about it, having only the Convertible, and then the Starlight (later Junior De-luxe). But the latter was small and had no outstanding features (though it was a very popular model), and the former was very heavy & expensive, and not well promoted at all by Hoover.

The emphasis was always on the Junior and Senior cleaners, which perhaps is no wonder why the flagship Junior became the target of a hard-bag version - the High Power Compact. But when you contrast it to the offerings of Electrolux, Goblin, and Moulinex, it was nothing to get excited about. However, as with other models, it did sell well.

The Turbopower was something else again though, blasting the Hoover range right into the 1980's. The only thing I ever disliked about the look of them was the fact that I thought the Junior version looked so bland next to the deep colours of the hard-bag versions.



http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtWBuSHzz8

 

[citroenbx]

I used my first turbopower when I was 7

and I still have soft spot for model and colour of turbopower in the pic

 

[citroenbx]

this is not my pic hope they don't mind

 

[vacuumlover]

@vintagerepairer @citroenbx

awesome

 

[citroenbx]

I am hoping to sell my hoover turbopower 2 soon

it will be fully striped down to motor and every moving part greased

about £15 if your in stoke on Trent

 

[citroenbx]

more pic's of my turbopower

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?26228

 

[turbomaster1984]

yes I would like to buy this - where in stoke are you?

 

[citroenbx]

tunstall st6 area

 

[turbomaster1984]

ok, i just need to figure out a plan to collect it but i deffo wnt to buy it

 

[citroenbx]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/theclassicdysondealer


when your ready to collect give me a bell through ebay

thanks all the best

 

[vacuumlover]

bugger i was going to take it. Ah well. You're better off having it Rob I'll rather have a Turbopower 1

 

[dysonman1]

The first TurboPower we say in the USA was at Hoover Factory Service Centers only. I don't remember them being for sale any where else. Then we got the horrible Innovation series. Hated working on them, the cord winders and handle release pedals always broke. Innovations (or 'aggravations') were also sold at Sears and some catalog stores. Expensive for what you got, and a huge departure from "real" Hoovers with beater-bar agitators. Innovations were sold for only about three years, in hard body as well as soft body versions. Parts were always hard to come by. Hoover US even made the Type B bag for those machines, but it was so large it would explode the door off the front of the machine when the bag was full. Type O bags from England were much better in those machines.