I'll post some photos of the one I had. Sold it recently. Beautiful machine.
Thought I was in trouble when I read your post. "Let's get one thing straight".
Like what did I do to The Fedora Lounge?!
I love this site!
Actually you could download the picture and keep it. I have the original sent to me by a friend along w/The Hoover Baby. I have dozens of vintage Hoover pics.
I was first introduced to a Hoover 425 at one and a half years old.
Loved em' ever since.
My mom had this exact Apex. I remember it well.
Strictly a suction cleaner. The switch was a round grooved knob at the top of the handle. Twist it in the same direction to turn the machine on or off.
My dad bought the Lark in the early fifties. It was a nice apartment Hoover but not really for the amount of use we gave it. Never knew what happened to these vacuums.
Please tell me the difference between, "The Forgotten Man" and "Scotrace".
Are they two different people or one in the same? It helps to know who I'm responding to. This forum is fantastic but a little different than the few I'm familiar with.
The brass triangular badges were used on the top of the range machines up to 1932 ie. Model 700, 725, 750 (orange with black edging). In 1934 both the 800 and 450 had brass triangular badges. The 800 was black with gold edging; the 450 was orange with black edging - the last orange badged machine and also the only one incorporating the royal crest. For 1936 both the 825 and 475 had brass badges but in a rectangular shape - but chromed so they are silver. Most of these have suffered from overpolishing through the years and so the brass shows through.
The cheaper priced machines such as the 425 and 575 started life with the black aluminium badges. After the war Hoover did a generous part exchange programme and thousands of pre-war machines were refurbished and resold by them at Perivale factory in England. These machines were re-polished which meant that the original badges had to be removed for the repolishing process and presumably chucked. The freshly repolished Hoovers were then refitted with the black aluminium badges - the standard badge which Hoover had for reconditioned machines. It stands to reason that a lot of these reconditioned machines survived - they were given a new lease of life by Hoover
THAT APEX IS AMAZING!!! ORIGINAL BAG AND ALL!!!!! My friend who introduced me to vintage cleaners LOVES Apex! He has an earlier one like that and two later models from the mid to late 30s that are highly polished aluminum... streamlined and just beautiful machines.
I'm going to send him the photo of that early Apex... he'll dig it!
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