Hoover 26 rescued from the curb today

[hobbyapocalypse]

The motor runs, tho the belt isn't very good, and the light doesn't light. But of course it looks great, very nice condition, tho not all original.

The box appears to contain all the original attachments, in excellent condition, including a mint condition Mothimizer. As for the hose though, it is so stiff and crackly it may not be any good.

Also, most of the push buttons, on the metal hose sections for releasing from attachments, have crumbled. Looks like they were some sort of plastic buttons screwed into holes in the little metal fingers, is this correct?

 

[circlew]

That's the first vacuum I remember my dad's Aunt Hazel having.

 

[tomturbomatic]

That reminds me of the vacuum Rhoda Morgenstern's mother (played by Nancy Walker) had.  The woman was hyper in everything she did.  In one show she was vacuuming when she was interrupted.  When she switched off the vacuum, it took about 10 seconds to wind down to a stop. It was like the vacuum had taken on her hyperactivity. It got a lot of laughter.

 

[vacbear58]

That reminds me of the vacuum Rhoda Morgenstern's mother

Rhoda's mother had a commercial Hoover, but the connection is not unreasonable. I am not a US Hoover expert but my impression is that the model 26 was reasonably short lived - in the US. You guys had the 150, we had the 160 - superfically similar except that it had the single pivot handle (rather like the 26 here) and lacked other features. Shortly after the 160 was launched they launched the 262 as a lower cost alternative (although quite where it is lower cost is beyond me) in around 1937 which went on, with an interuption for WW2, until 1949.

You guys had the model 60 in around 1940, followed by model 61 - we did not get our version of that - 612 until 1949. The commercial model was based on the 60/61 or more correctly the 612 as I understand that for many years the commercial models were manufactured in the UK. So this 26 is a fairly reasonable ancestor of the one Rhoda's mother used.

Tom is quite right, they extended the "shut down" noise to great comedic effect or at least I think so I also liked it when Rhoda reasied something was different with the furniture, her mother had removed the clear plastic covers - apparently for the first time About 18.30 on teh link

See it first around 5.05 on the link although it appears a couple of times later