1973 Catalog Vacs, Sanyo TT & Whirlaway DW

[petek]

Not much at the flea market today, I actually brought nothing home other than this catalog
Neat little Sanyo twin tub, I don't remember these but I do remember the Whirlaway countertop dishwashers.

 

[petek]

now onto the vacs

 

[petek]

Pukey green Hoovers.. so much green that year

 

[petek]

You can have Daisies on your vac but not a power nozzle it seems

 

[petek]

And more green from GE and Sunbeam with a touch of yellow

 

[maytagbear]

Thanks, Pete-

You scan the best stuff.

I always wanted that Sunbeam canister that looks like the suitcase. I've come across some in the secondary market, but they either wanted more than I felt like spending, or needed extensive work, or had major cosmetic flaws. Someday.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[timborow]

Thanks for the pic

I now see what kind of floor tool was on my GE Swivel Top vacuum. It's missing, but now I know! Thanks, Tim
p.s. My great-grandmother had the green GE upright in the picture. Man that was YEARS ago. I can still remember the hum it made.

 

[petek]

I just noticed that the GE carpet sweeper is the electric one. Mom had a regular Bissell and I always coveted one of those electric ones.. haven't seen any since but I'd sure like one now.

 

[swestoyz]

Pete,

I love your scans, such a blast to look at!

Ben

 

[bostonwash]

Wow

thanks for the scans.

Check out that 70s **lovechild* *fl*wer* vac by Lewyt

I agree with the suitcase vac observation, I've seen those before and thought at first it was a film projector.

I thought those canister Hoovers on page 105 were from the 60s. I wonder when those were replaced? One of my first vacs it was the Hoover rectangle(no the one with the self store top) It was metal, heavy, had no cord rewind, tool storage, power head, after filter, or before filter, but it was a fun toy for a 11 y.o.

so many canisters but none with a powerhead.

I have never seen in person the countertop DW. It seems like fun but I don't know how it is powered.

Thanks!

 

[kenmore1978]

Proctor-Leywt

Never knew they had a partnership

 

[hoover1060]

very cool!

Thanks for the scans Pete!
I remember that small GE clean air upright here, Kmart sold them. Would love to find one of those today!

 

[jamiel]

My mom had that middle Lewyt canister (called Shetland in the US)--big blocky square thing, extremely noisy but worked well. Huge bag mounted on a piece of cardboard the size of the front of the vacuum (similar to an Electrolux, but 3x the size). On the top, button switch, turn knob suction control, button cord reel. Tools went on top. As I recall she bought it at the local discount store--never saw them anywhere else.

She had a thing against round vacuums--would never have a Celebrity or any other round one (she got a round Westinghouse as a wedding present and apparently hated it).

After the Lewyt died we ordered a Sears suction only canister from the catalogue. It died (actually just the cord reel) after about 15 years and she's got one of those tiny Sharp canisters now for the floors etc.

Always, always though a Hoover upright.

 

[fnelson487]

GE Electric Carpet Sweeper

I have my mom's. One of the few things that remains that I got. I'll take a pic and post. You can't get those bags anymore, but were paper and opened on the side.

Fred

 

[tomturbomatic]

We had just about stopped carrying those GE carpet sweepers, but my retired high school librarian came in wanting something small and lightweight for her small apartment. She was recovering from surgery or something, too. I told her about the GE and offered to call all of the stores to find it and bring it to her when I found it. She loved it. I don't know if the bag ever got changed. Her kitchen was all Westinghouse with the roll out DW with the big chrome dial and 30" stove.

 

[Designgeek]

So, how did those whirl-o-way dishwashers work? Driven by water pressure, or was there a motor? And did they have any supplementary method of heating up the water to get it hot enough to sanitize?

Re. puky green: hey, puke isn't green! And we had one of those Hoover uprights when I was a kid, the one at the far left in the picture. In that color. Noisy but highly effective.

 

[petek]

Perhaps I should have called it bile green rather than pukey. LOL
The Whirl o ways are non electric and powered only by your faucets water pressure. I seem to recollect CR testing them with not so great results, especially that they used an inordinate amount of hot water in constant use to do the job.
Next to it you see the Whirl o way faucet powered potato peeler. Philips had an electric version, I have one one of those still, it does work best with round shaped potatoes, that are spun around in the abrasive basket that wears off the peel, but you can peel as many taters as they hold by hand much faster, so I only drag it out every couple of years for entertainment purposes along with Ronco's in the egg scrambler.