Vacuum Collection (page 2)

Four people in a car outside a Post Office
Four people sitting inside a car outside a Post Office with their picnic things set out. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Goblin vacuum cleaner 1948
Goblin electric vacuum cleaner, for carpets, and polished floors. 1948

Plume Motor Spirit - Vacuum Oil Company
An enamel sign advertising Plume Motor Spirit. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Advert for Magnet household items 1929
Magnet, a wide variety of electrical gifts for Christmas. 1929

Kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose
Unusual Friends - kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose. 1950s

Group of cleaners who won the football pools, with cleaning equipment. Date: circa 1980s

Advert for H. W. Koehler - vacuum flask 1912
" Autotherm", vacuum flask, maintaining heat for 24 hours and keeps liquid cool for days. 1912

Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner. Date: 1917

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

Six girls on a Balham street, SW London
Six girls huddled together in front of a wooden fence on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Tramp asleep on a Balham street, SW London
A tramp asleep on a bench on a Balham street in SW London. The various bags and papers appear to belong to him. Date: circa 1960s

C1909 Belsize Vintage Car / Taxi Cab, Lansdown Place Lane
C1909 Belsize Vintage Car/Taxi Cab, Lansdown Place Lane, Cheltenham, England. Outside the Lansdown Motor Company Garage - showing a sign for Vacuum Motor Oils. Date: 1910s

Encyclopedia of Sport by William Heath Robinson
1. Vacuuming white mice on the Scottish moors. One in a series of crack pot sports imagined by William Heath Robinson in The Sketch magazine. Date: 1914

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Advert for Icy-Hot vacuum flasks 1916
Keeps contents ice cold for 72 hours; hot for 24 hours, comes in container enameled in leather effect, with nickel-plated shoulder and drinking cup. 1916

Ladies Camping
Two rather smartly dressed young ladies, probably more accostomed to the town than the country, avoid roughing it by making tea with a very shiny modern vacuum flask! Date: late 1950s

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Miss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, crankshaft polisher
Miss May Mitchell of Pontypridd, formerly a vacuum cleaner supervisor, polishes a crankshaft from a damaged engine at the BOAC Depot in South Wales in 1942. Date: 1942

Vacuum interrupter switch gear, c.1979 Date: circa 1979

British Vacuum Cleaner
The British Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1913

Perils of Vacuum Cleaner
The perils of the vacuum cleaner Date: 1904

Goldmsmith Maid. Pub. by Vacuum Oil Co. Rochester, N. Y
Goldmsmith Maid. Pub. by Vacuum Oil Co. Rochester, N.Y. Date c1874

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Wiegel uses electric vacuum cleaner. Date 1942 June

Trendy Vacuum Cleaner
A Phillips vacuum cleaner in a trendy cream and brown design. Date: 1974

British and American soldiers on a tank, WW1
British and American soldiers standing on top of a tank, with their respective flags, in a street procession during the First World War. Date: early 1918

Guericke at Magdeburg
His celebrated vacuum experiment at Magdeburg : two teams of eight horses each are unable to pull the two hemispheres apart, though only a vacuum holds them together Date: 1650s

Advertisement for Hotpoint gifts for Christmas
Hotpoint gifts " Your problem - everyones - now is - what can I give". Various useful items for the housewife that will save her time, trouble and expense

Vacuum Factory
American Vacuum Cleaning Co. Newark, New Jersey, America. Vacuum cleaner factory with workers and supervisors visible

Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish Laboratory
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft

Electrolux advertisement
Advert for Electrolux vacuum cleaners, showing a woman opening her Christmas present and looking pleased or bemused that it is one of those new-fangled vacuum cleaners

Sign for Mobiloil
An enamel sign advertising Gargoyle Mobiloil. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

House of Lords cleaners
Two cleaners in the House of Lords, vacuuming and polishing in preparation for the State Opening of Parliament in a few days time

Harrisons Ice Making Machine, 1858
Engraving showing the ice making machine, designed by Mr. Harrison of Geelong, Australia, 1858. Built by Mr. Siebe of Denmark Street, Soho, London

Billiard table adverts
Advertisement from 1897 for Burroughes & Watts celebrated billiard tables with patented vacuum cushions

Advert Vacuum Cleaner
Advert for the housewife for christmas! Western Electric Vacuum Sweeper with the motor driven brush

An electric portable cleaner
Domestic vacuum cleaners began to appear in households from around 1907. This particular version seems ahead of its time

Edisons electric lamp
Components of the electric lamp patented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1879. The lamp worked by passing an electric current through a carbon filament enclosed in a vacuum in a sealed glass bulb

Housewife Vacuuming
A young housewife in a pink gingham mini dress, vacuums her living room

Woman hoovering
Woman with hoover using the attachments

Vacuum Cleaner Housewife
French housewife with that vacuum cleaner which, as the advert says, she just had to have Date: 1920s

Advert / Hair Growth Cap
A remarkable invention for the culture of hair, the Evans Vacuum Cap promises a new healthy growth of hair or your money back

Orion Vacuum Cleaner
The ORION takes the leaning out of cleaning - has no revolving brush to wear away the surface by friction - and it costs only Nine Guineas !

Progress Vacuum Cleaner
You see, the house is much cleaner with the PROGRESS than with any other vacuum cleaner, whats more, Maman didn t even hear us do the housework !

Vacuuming Stairs
A French maidservant vacuums the stairs with LE PROGRESS

Vacuuming Armchair
A French maidservant vacuums an armchair with LE PROGRESS

Vacuuming Carpet
A French maidservant vacuums the carpet with LE PROGRESS

Hoovering a Chair 1930S
A housewife demonstrates how to vacuum clean an armchair using a Hoover " Dustette" cleaner

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