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An example of a Zorst cleaner was to be seen at the Antiques For Everyone, Summer Fair at the NEC last week. It was Maurice Collins turn to show his possessions on the Feature. It was called from Victoria to George VI, Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamajigs.
All sorts of gadgets and contraptions were on view including two vacuum cleaners. One was a product of the Star Engineering Works in Wolverhampton. The other was the Zorst, which was made at 21 Whittal Street in Birmingham.
Making early vacuum cleaners, in the pre electric motor days, as sold by Hoover, involved carpentry, leather work and the incorporation of brass and iron parts. With the Zorst rotating an iron wheel created the bellows suction required for the cleaner to work. At nearby Lemington Road, the Daisy Vacuum cleaner used a lever system whilst the Star of Wolverhampton relied on a handle pushing down on a concertina below devise fixed to the tube that drew in the dust.
That Birmingham made such devices is one of the many examples of the ability for factories to adapt to source new products
All sorts of gadgets and contraptions were on view including two vacuum cleaners. One was a product of the Star Engineering Works in Wolverhampton. The other was the Zorst, which was made at 21 Whittal Street in Birmingham.
Making early vacuum cleaners, in the pre electric motor days, as sold by Hoover, involved carpentry, leather work and the incorporation of brass and iron parts. With the Zorst rotating an iron wheel created the bellows suction required for the cleaner to work. At nearby Lemington Road, the Daisy Vacuum cleaner used a lever system whilst the Star of Wolverhampton relied on a handle pushing down on a concertina below devise fixed to the tube that drew in the dust.
That Birmingham made such devices is one of the many examples of the ability for factories to adapt to source new products
