myhooverco
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Bravo Charlie!
My compliments to you Charlie as you did the 150 justice in explaining all of the features. It was truly ahead of its time and very costly...$79.50 plus $16.50 for the tools. This was a lot of money for 1936! This model also debuted the famous clip on moulded plug embossed with the name Hoover and it was the first model to employ "top" conversion for the cleaning tools so that the user did not have to take off the belt to do above the floor cleaning. Henry Dreyfuss was paid a whopping $150,000 to design the machine and you could buy the machine for $1.50 a week hence the model number "150". When you started working for Hoover in the late 1930's, you bought one of these whether you wanted one or not. They took it out of your paycheck! They made somewhere around 166,616 according to a 1959 source. That is not many considering it had a pretty good run. Compared to the model 61 which had a 4 year run at over 400,000 units, the model 150 is quite rare in my opinion. Yours looks great Charlie...I have to agree with your picks of your favorite Hoover models. They are really a work of art. Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!
--Tom
My compliments to you Charlie as you did the 150 justice in explaining all of the features. It was truly ahead of its time and very costly...$79.50 plus $16.50 for the tools. This was a lot of money for 1936! This model also debuted the famous clip on moulded plug embossed with the name Hoover and it was the first model to employ "top" conversion for the cleaning tools so that the user did not have to take off the belt to do above the floor cleaning. Henry Dreyfuss was paid a whopping $150,000 to design the machine and you could buy the machine for $1.50 a week hence the model number "150". When you started working for Hoover in the late 1930's, you bought one of these whether you wanted one or not. They took it out of your paycheck! They made somewhere around 166,616 according to a 1959 source. That is not many considering it had a pretty good run. Compared to the model 61 which had a 4 year run at over 400,000 units, the model 150 is quite rare in my opinion. Yours looks great Charlie...I have to agree with your picks of your favorite Hoover models. They are really a work of art. Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!
--Tom