Talk:Dirt Devil

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Company History[edit]

"Originally, the company made vacuum cleaners with aluminum casings." As did other manufacturers; why is this noteworthy?

"The "dirty air" design was used for the vacuum cleaners, with the electric motor positioned horizontally, the turbine blades at the front and a downward facing nozzle in contact with the cleaning surface." This is a matter of design, and probably the norm for that era. It is NOT 'Company History'.

"The dirt was collected at the vacuum exhaust in a heavy cloth bag, which needed to be shaken to remove the collected dirt on a regular basis." = a standard vacuum cleaner of that era, just like my grandmother's pale-blue & cream Hoover, which I genuinely remember.

"The cloth bag, held closed by a sliding metal clamp," = standard design, remember it well.

"was replaced by an inner paper filter bag in the mid-1960s. To empty the bag, it was periodically detached from the motor exhaust and shaken." = just like every other manufacturer.

"In 1937, the first hand-held vacuum cleaner was introduced, called the "Royal Prince". The first, or their first? One might be considered significant, the other is most definitely not.

"It was offered with the upright and canister models. The upright model had three variations, called the Standard, the Super, and the Purifier. The Purifier had a rubber belt driven brush incorporated into the detachable carpet nozzle." Is any of this significant?

Most of the above is off-topic, and/or describes how any generic vacuum cleaner operates. I cannot see that it adds any value to the article, hence I propose to edit the entire Company History section down to just a few lines.

WendlingCrusader (talk) 02:03, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Key question[edit]

Is this article about the Royal Appliance Manufacturing Company, or about their product line the badged as 'Dirt Devil'?

If the article title is changed, much of the history section can be saved.

If the title remains 'Dirt Devil', then most of that history (pre 1981) is redundant.

p.s. there is no equivalent article about the Oreck Corporation, so the link to David Oreck (with an entire sub-section detailing the Oreck Corporation) is as good as it gets.

WendlingCrusader (talk) 17:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]