’47 Hoover Vacuum Cleaner

This is my 1947 model 61 Hoover cleaner in near mint condition. I have a size “C” bag installed, but I also have a size “W” that was in it when I found it. This bag is still usable to this day and has the metal clip that holds the top together, this bag was meant to be reused.

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  1. Now this one … the type W bags are no longer available.

    Ugh! Out of a Dumpster! That’s fabulous!

    Ooh–a fellow Wisconsinite! I used to live in Milwaukee.

    That’s a wonderful machine, too. They made them from 1946-1950. And yes, the letters are brass.

  2. Awsome. I seen a model 61 at a thrift shop and it’s been there for at least 4 years! I checked on it today and yep still there. I’m waiting for her to lower her price before I snatch it.

  3. Since you got this original, did it have a original paper bag in it? This machine if you didnt know took a paper bag that was reusealbe and it had a metal clip at the top to close it, I only have a few of these bags left in my collection, I mean the original papaer bag, but I do not have my machine any longer.

  4. I have a size “W” bag that is original and untorn. I just don’t use it because I don’t want to ruin it. I have over a hundred size “C” bags so I just use those.

  5. I found it in a dumpster by a house about to be torn down, had I known of the stuff that was in there that was put by the road and picked up I would have broke in and grabbed all of it. A neighbor said I missed a ton of ’50s furniture and tvs and everything in between. My spidy senses were always tingling when I was by that house, they were right.

  6. ya i no exactly how you feel, there was house that was being renovated big time in a horrible part of town, so that is usaully where the good stuff is, and there was piles of tons of old junk, and i love junk lol

  7. $300 and she’s yours with all attachments and what’s left of the original box. Paperwork is all there. Seriously.

  8. I love your RCA Color TV set from the 1950s. Do you collect antique TV’s too. I collect them and have the famed 1939 RCA TRK-12 Television Console.

  9. These machines were made to last! I have a Dansette “Conquest” record player that I still use, it’s been in our family for over 40 years.

  10. Hi I was just wondering if this model came with a handi sac? How did you get a type C disposible bag to fit? Also did the older hoovers like this have a bellows and filltube?

  11. Yes, it did. A size “W” IIRC. I just removed a couple of the staples from a “C” bag to make it fit the larger tube so I can save the W bag. Yes, the older Hoovers have a bellows and fill-tube. Thanks for your interest.

  12. Thanks for your help i am looking for an original bag for a hoover model 63 which I have that is all I need to complete it cause I have the attachments and the original manual for my vac which is in great conditon for the age

  13. do you still have that hoover 61 for sale by any chance? if so how much are you asking for it?
    thank you very much.

  14. I just ran across your website. I too am the proud owner of a Hoover Model 63 and like Stepsfantastic79, and looking for the blue outer bag (with the zipper). Did you have any luck finding one?

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