Vintage Electrical Appliance # 3 - "The Hoover"

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Junior Model 375

This upright vacuum cleaner was purchased new by my family in the late 1940's. The serial number F420565 indicates 1948 production. The plate on the front reads "By Appointment To The Late King George V." I'm not sure why it isn't George Vl. Apparently this model was first made in the late 1930's.

Also shown in the pics is the original accessory kit which, evidently, has been little used.

By the 1970's this cleaner had been relegated as a "spare" as we had a "more modern" 1950's Electrolux vacuum cleaner which, fortunately, I still have.