Bag life and Lux in the 60's
Austin,
Depending on how you use the vacuum and what you picking up has a large bearing on the bag life of the Handi-Sacs. They are made of wood pulp cellulose paper and were made to be reused. Since I use mine rarely they get an unusually extended long life! According to the Hoover manuals, (correct if I'm wrong Jeff), was 2-5 about right. You would remove the bag at the metal tube base, then take it outside or put it over an open newspaper and remove the metal clip at the top and empty the bag.
Once emptied, you would put the metal clip back in place at the top of the bag and slide it back onto the metal spring clamp just above round metal tube attached to the bag flange and you were good to go again.
I'm sure if you were vacuuming large amounts of sand, metal shavings and anything else that would damage the bag, you may have to look it over carefully to determine if was good to go.
Frontoloadotmy,
Yes, those would be aprox. the correct years. The turoquoise G may have gone through 1966 as I think the tan G was launched in 1967. Correct me anyone if I am wrong.
Austin,
One last note---------when I was a young man we had an Automatic F until that fortunate day the Electrolux saleman came to our house and I insisted that Mother get the turoquise G. Well, about two years later, the same Electrolux salesman came calling and I was home from school and we ended up with a Hopital G in turoquise. My Mother and her cleaning person were not sure why the change was made but they adapted! My Mother always insisted on a canister and an upright so in addition to the Hospital G we had a Hoover 28, then a Kirby Dual 80 and lastly the Hoover, (I think), model 1076 in yellow.
I'm including a picture here that shows how the hose attached to the G with a special plastic clip to keep the hose from turning so the pigtail cord would not come disconnected to the body of the vacuum. Many of these hoses that have survived do not have the clip or they are broken due to age or use.
