Last Aussie Keymatics
Does anyone here have any info on the very last Aussie Keymatics?
I have vague memories as a kid of there being a last "Keymatic" that was NOT badged as a Keymatic.
My Mum had a 1960s Hoover Convertible vac and she used to get bags and spares from Westwoods Hoover in Frankston. (Westwoods still exist but have moved.)
I distinctly remember on one visit they had a Keymatic on display in the corner and on the door it had a square or rectangular blue badge with the Hoover logo and a model number, I think it was a 400 series number. [That would fit as the next shape was the Hoover 455 which I think the Poms call a Matchbox]. The machine I'm talking about was a sloping front Keymatic. I don't think this machine had the word Keymatic on it, as I remember thinking "that is a Keymatic" and being surprised the name wasn't there. Colours I remember on it would align with the Hoover 500 series top loaders coming out, whenever that was.
I have never seen or heard of such a machine ever since. Maybe I dreamt it?
Our neighbours has an earlier Keymatic and I loved the shape of it, though my Mum told me at the time it was very unreliable and was always being fixed.
