Other museums, collections and companies devoted to small electrical appliances (revised links 2.07)

Other virtual collections

• comprehensive and informative collection of US vacuum cleaners www.137.com/museum/
• more old vacuum cleaners from Norway www.137.com/galaasen/
• UK-based collection of pre-1939 Hoover models www.freewebs.com/vintagehoover/
• UK-based collection of post-1945 Hoover models www.freewebs.com/bfg75/
• more information on antique vacuum cleaners www.designmaker.com/vacuums/
• a collection of toasters in the US www.toaster.org/
• and toasters in Germany www.central-services.de/toastermuseum/
• vintage toasters and other appliances in New York toastercentral.com
• more on toasters here brightbytes.com/collection/toaster.html
• and still more here www.berksys.com/cafeslack/museum.html
• a site devoted to the electric razor, with history links iavbbs.com/gflinn/
• an internet museum of safety razors www.creekstone.net/razors
• more on safety razors and shaving collectables www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3541/
• another razor collection www.geocities.com/igorravbar/
• Philishave electric razor collectors' site home.wanadoo.nl/philiclub/
• mainly text-based resource on electric razor history www.xs4all.nl/~pedewei/enavhome.htm
• a large directory for Antiques and Collecting on the Net Curioscape
• domestic appliance collectibles on Yahoo! dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Hobbies/Collecting/Appliances
• complete on-line resource on automatic tea makers www.teasmade.com

Company history sites

• Air-Way, USA www.air-way.net/home.html
• Braun (text only) www.braun.de/e/ab/ab.htm?history/1921_con.htm
• Belling, UK www.belling.co.uk/homepage.htm
• Electrolux www.Electrolux.co.uk/node102.asp
• Eureka www.eureka.com/aboutus/index.htm
• Hamilton Beach & Proctor Silex, USA www.hamiltonbeach.com/company/hbhistry.html
• Hoover, USA www.hoover.com/xq/asp/qx/Company/history.htm
• Hoover, UK (requires Flash) www.hoover.co.uk/
• Nilfisk (Tellus), USA www.nilfiskamerica.com/
• Rolls Razor www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/3541/Rolls_Page.htm
• Rolls Razor (more) www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/3696/Intros02.html
• Toastmaster, USA www.toastmaster.com/

Non-virtual museums in the UK

• Science Museum ('The Secret Life of the Home'), South Kensington, London SW7 2DD www.nmsi.ac.uk/
  The largest and most comprehensive collection open to the public in the UK.

• Southern Electric Museum, Bargates, Christchurch, Dorset, tel. (01202) 762828. Details here
  The only museum entirely devoted to electricity in the UK.

• York Castle Museum, York YO1 1RY, tel. (01904) 653611.
  There are a series of extensive displays in 'Every home should have one', plus a 1940s kitchen.

• Harrow Museum and Heritage Centre, Headstone Manor, Harrow HA2 6PX.
  Two reconstructed 1930s rooms include vacuum cleaners, irons and other appliances.

• Millgate Folk Museum, Millgate, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 4TS, tel. (01636) 79403.
  Includes displays of vacuum cleaners and laundry equipment

• Glasgow Transport Museum, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow G3 8DP, tel. (0141) 357 3929
  The superb 1930s street scene of this museum includes an electrical housewares shop.

• Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4JP, tel. (0161) 832 2244.
  Electrical appliances are shown in period kitchens as part of the electricity gallery.

• Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, Houghton Bridge, Amberley, Sussex BN18 9LT, tel. (01798) 831370. Details here

• Holker Hall (The Zanussi Collection), Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, tel. (015395) 58328.
  Electrical appliances are displayed in the context of a series of period kitchens.