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.
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.
