Introduced in 1970 to replace the bulky, American designed Hoover Portable, the 507 featured automatic cord rewind, a bag full indicator and a hidden blower port, as well as one of Hoover's most comprehensive toolkits. Two of the nozzles - a radiator brush and a turbo brush - were only ever sold with this model (although the turbo brush was sold on the US market as an accessory), but the cleaner failed to get a Design Council reccommendation, which made Hoover pull out of one of the Design Council's forthcoming exhibitions in a huff!

I was very lucky to get this machine, still boxed and barely used, from a visitor to my website. The capacitiator blew shortly after getting it, due to lack of use over the last 35 years, but this has now been fixed, and the cleaner runs smoothly and quietly again.