Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Let's hear all there is about Filter Queens.  All I basically know is they are exclusively appointment only DTD.  They are expensive, and they last for freeking ever.  I have heard they have gone plastic, but other than that the basic design hasn't changed. 

Did Royal once build them?  Or did they build Royal?

Kirby sales people developed a very bad reputation and deservedly so.  Spoiled by a few rotten ones.  To his credit, when Warren Buffet purchased the Kirby company [as part of Berkshire Hathaway], he made sure they cleaned up their sales act.

Carmine D.

Hi,

Though the earlier FQs proved heat endurant, I think a bigger motor would up the heat production factor and possibility of early breakdown.  Without the muffling material, which also held in heat as it cut noise, FQ would rank as average regarding noise levels.  That is not news -- Electroluxes, prior the G, were quieter because of the exhaust filters they used.  However, I have to defer to craftsmanship as FQ and the old Luxes remarkably seemed to endure when a lot of others didn't.  I know of few people who ever thought to change the exhaust filters on early Luxes or the secondary filters on FQ but these machines kept on going and going.

Best,

Venson early