Fun with Hoover Constellation and Royal Vacuum cleaners

I have just about the same vac. The Royal Commercial, the one I have is a the same age as yours. I had to replace the bag because of holes in the old one. I also do not have a light on mine. All and all I have to say that Royal kicked Kirby’s ass with this cleaner.
All medal blades and whole lot less plastic, something Kirby lacks.

Do you know what year your Royal dates to? I like my cleaner and I wonder how old it is since I bought it used.

I don’t know but I would like to research that

thanks for commenting

not just the vaccum’s you should say the whole house. my great grandmother’s the same way she stillhas the same stuff she had in 1972

My Royal is a model 611

lawl the two hoover conselations at 1:18 XD falling in love?

You might be able to find a date code on the bottom of your Royal. There is a letter to represent the month and two numbers for the year. Example, my Royall 880’s date code is D84. So it was made in December of 1984.

Each letter code represents the month of a year. “D” would be April. But did they use the letter “I” (which is confused with the number 1) to designate the month of October, or did they skip and use the letter “J” instead?

Is this your personal residence?

Fantastic collection. Well done. Do you have the Hoover 402 (1949-1953) by any chance ? Thanks

@southjk
Your Royal Commercial upright appears to date from the late 1960s to the early 1970s (1968-1973) and, if it were manufactured prior to about 1970, it would just have a model/sequence # (e.g. 608-E34369). If 1970-1978, it would take the form of year/decade/month/plant/sequence (e.g. 67IA51391 – September 1976).

Something tells me the Adjust-O-Rite plug is a 1978-1993 replacement.

@ClassicTVMan81
Its a model 602 cleaning maching 760G

@southjk
Model 602, serial #??? “760G” refers to the U.L. code. I wonder if the serial # portion is obscured?

@ClassicTVMan81
serial 77c A 28866

@southjk
That would make this machine a 1977 model. The serial # reads as follows:
7 = calendar year 1977
7 = calendar year decade 1970s
C = calendar month March
A = assembly line/plant code
28866 = unit sequence number

@southjk
Forgot to say thank you for the serial #!

The bag currently on this 602 is not original, as it would wrongly lead people to believe it is a heavy-duty commercial model. Why? The 602 is classified as an economy model. The original bag was actually colored gray and was a “shake out” bag (did not use throwaway bags).

@crazychrisva but kirby vacuums are still great vacuums

@crazychrisva
Is yours manufactured in 1977, too?

@southjk
And if the bag on this Royal were correct, then the model would be a 611 and it would also have a 3-wire cord instead of a 2-wire one.