Here we have a nice lil' footstool vac from Japan.
Have you all guessed what the theme is this week here at the Vintage Appliance Emporium? If you haven't yet, you soon will do :)
This was the only vacuum cleaner my late cat used to like. He used to sleep on it bless him. I'm pretty sure my current cat would like it too and she'll sleep on anything!
Here's another example of the incredible ingenuity of the Japanese designers. The Japanese people live in very tiny (relative to us in Europe anyway) flats / houses and everything needs to be super compact. This drives the necessity to have everything housed away neatly with the vacuum cleaner so the whole machine is easy to store.
I have seen this machine in various colours - Red, green, yellow and blue. So consumers certainly had a nice choice when matching their cleaner with the scheme of their house!
Hitachi did the same thing in the early 80s with their Stowaway machine and you'll see an example of their miniaturisation on the channel if you do a quick search. Whilst Hitachi chose to store the tools UNDER their cleaner, National Panasonic went the other way and put the tools in the lid of this cleaner. I don't personally feel like either way is preferable, both are easy and simple to use and quick to unpack.
Enjoy the video!
5 сен 2024