I bought a cheap upright Westinghouse for my apartment years ago away from hometown. That thing was unbelievable; I called it Jaws recalling the “Mr. Mom” movie. I think we did something to it that broke it (probably the cleaning lady previously mentioned) when I brought it back home with me. That was just at the time Westinghouse shut down forever, so there was no replacement. Boy I miss that thing.
I remember when Westinghouse used to make a vacuum cleaner.
Back when the Pittsburgh Pirates moved into Three Rivers Stadium and began playing on artificial turf, their legendary play-by-play man, Bob Prince, began referring to a runner on base as “a bug on the rug”. And to remove a bug on the rug you need “a Hoover” (which became his term for a double-play).
When Westinghouse, the owners of KDKA radio, fired him in 1975, one of their beefs with him was that he was constantly promoting a competing brand of vacuum cleaner every time he called the double-play “a Hoover”.
Of course today Westinghouse is CBS, and makes nothing but crappy TV shows. The name Westinghouse was sold to Toshiba, which makes nuclear reactors under that name.