My favourite in this Hoover brochure was the Hoover turbopower plus total system the third generation and I can remember my grandma has the light cream one with the autoflex and it did have a headlight and I also like the later versions of the Hoover Compact cylinder vacuum cleaners they look a smaller version of the Hoover Sensotronic.
This booklet confirms what I have always said, that Hoover offered way, way too much choice. Compare the amount of cleaners here to that in the Electrolux booklet yesterday. It's absurd, because as well as all these cleaners, they were running exclusive lines for the Electricity Boards and Argos, to name two, as well as having older models still in the shops. I remember well my grandad purchasing a black Hoover Turbopower Junior U1220 from the Co-Op, in January 1990. It was cheap for what it was too - £59.99 if I recall correctly. Of course, it would only be two or three years after this booklet was distributed that Hoover showed their true madness, with the free flights fiasco. The part I find most bonkers about that is not that people were given air miles to the USA which Hoover couldn't afford to supply, but that Hoover totally lost sight of the reason for the promotion in the first place. The original offer had been for flights to Europe, and had been introduced as a means to shift excess stock that Hoover couldn't move. It was a success - a great many people purchased Hoover products, and stocks were quickly diminishing. At the same time, only a small number of customers were actually bothering to redeem their air mile vouchers. Hoover were winning all round. And this is where they should have stopped the offer, but they didn't. Instead, they increased the promotion to fly people to the USA, and put staff on overtime to make more and more stock. They were overrun this time with customers who wished to redeem their vouchers, and the rest -as they say- is history. I don't know how such a huge organisation could have made such a basic error.
It's no wonder they went bankrupt, I had no idea they had that many product lines - and that's just for the UK ! Could likely double that for the USA market.
lol that intro is hilarious. The Roombot didnt get everything and I thought it was gonna come back and get the rest and it was like "nahhhhhhh"
This was wonderfully calming Rog, thank you.
Your enthusiasm is infectious!
I liked the innovation cleaners and also the badge looking handy helpmate by Hoover thank you for the video
My favourite in this Hoover brochure was the Hoover turbopower plus total system the third generation and I can remember my grandma has the light cream one with the autoflex and it did have a headlight and I also like the later versions of the Hoover Compact cylinder vacuum cleaners they look a smaller version of the Hoover Sensotronic.
Hi Roger,
Which vacuum in your collection have you owned for the longest time?
This booklet confirms what I have always said, that Hoover offered way, way too much choice. Compare the amount of cleaners here to that in the Electrolux booklet yesterday. It's absurd, because as well as all these cleaners, they were running exclusive lines for the Electricity Boards and Argos, to name two, as well as having older models still in the shops. I remember well my grandad purchasing a black Hoover Turbopower Junior U1220 from the Co-Op, in January 1990. It was cheap for what it was too - £59.99 if I recall correctly.
Of course, it would only be two or three years after this booklet was distributed that Hoover showed their true madness, with the free flights fiasco. The part I find most bonkers about that is not that people were given air miles to the USA which Hoover couldn't afford to supply, but that Hoover totally lost sight of the reason for the promotion in the first place.
The original offer had been for flights to Europe, and had been introduced as a means to shift excess stock that Hoover couldn't move. It was a success - a great many people purchased Hoover products, and stocks were quickly diminishing. At the same time, only a small number of customers were actually bothering to redeem their air mile vouchers. Hoover were winning all round. And this is where they should have stopped the offer, but they didn't.
Instead, they increased the promotion to fly people to the USA, and put staff on overtime to make more and more stock. They were overrun this time with customers who wished to redeem their vouchers, and the rest -as they say- is history. I don't know how such a huge organisation could have made such a basic error.
It's no wonder they went bankrupt, I had no idea they had that many product lines - and that's just for the UK ! Could likely double that for the USA market.
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