Which October 1973

[vacbear58]

I have been busy with my scanner this morning. Which is our version of "Consumer Reports" - this report covers several machines which are now very rare, although I can only think of one which is not in a UK collection that I know of

 

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Uprights, all collected

 

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All collected too - the MacDonald has similarities to teh Oreck I believe

 

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The Hotpoint is the one that I dont know of in a collection. I would have said it could be of German origin as the later models were, but it says made in Britain. I have a Kenwood, and Rob and Paul snapped up a Hollandia last October
Al

 

[MikeKLondon]

McDonald

Hi All

This is the 1st time I have ever seen the McDonald here. i do remember they were cheap one thing I have always wanted to know is was this a proto type Oreck

 

[funvacfan]

Well

The early Orecks were manufactured in Germany, so, I bet there is a connection!

Guy

 

[ohio_tuec]

You are indeed correct. MacDonald Electric produced the Oreck CVR/XL-4000 series for Oreck. But the predecessor to the Oreck was actually the Whirlpool CVR-2000 & 3000. Oreck bought Whirlpool's failing vacuum cleaner line in 1963. Mr. Oreck gave licensing agreement to MacDonald Electric to produce the machine, and overseas it bore the MacDonald Electric name.

- Karl

 

[vacbear58]

MacDonald

I forgot to post this earlier.

Although these were widely promoted in the 1970s I have only seen on, belonging to ChesterMike

 

[crevicetool]

Interesting stuff Alistair. It's fun for us over here to see stuff from over there.

wait....yeah that's right.

When I first saw the title of this thread I thought to myself - did 1973 have more than one October?

 

[MikeKLondon]

So the oreck's gone from the cheapest vac on the market to what it is to-day. COSCO are selling the HD model and I thing it was about £400 I have never owned an Oreck but did try one out in Harrods a few years ago when i was looking for a new daily vac, But i was not impressed and got a Miele with a PH still have that but I use a SEBO felix as the daily