A little challenge for those who luckily own a Hoover Senior 652 - Pink

[myhooverco]

Here is the Company tag that was placed on the machine....

 

[turbomaster1984]

Wow Tom, neat machine and fab info!

Heres a video of mine and Pauls in action

 

[z30soulbrother]

kitchen

Hi Richard
love your kitchen.! Its a New World cooker yes? We had one in the 60s with that lighter on the side. Yes lovely Senior there mate. One of my aunts had 1 her daughter my cousin inherited the house i bet its there somewhere. They never threw anything out! Time to pay a visit i think!!
Si

 

[74simon]

Typical!

Just put mine in storage, but have found a pic of the serial number - 276228, ISTR it dated her to sometime in 1960, she's got white bellows on her, and the darker footswitch.

Congratuations on an ace find though guys, slippery slope ahoy!

I love the sound of those one speed 652s, seem a bit mellower than the later machines. Having said that, I'm very tempted to hotrod mine and fit a two speed motor and the tool suction improver I have on my 6525C, because even though she's a beauty, using her hose is like fighting a losing battle... and I have spare hoods if it goes into meltdown!!!

Didn't the early 652s have 'Hoover' on the wrong side of the bag, ie by the cord hooks?

Si

 

[74simon]

Superbly elegant!

For discriminating, er, gentlemen...

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[luxg]

That was a really fun video, thanks so much for sharing it with us. Terry

 

[Tim1964]

Pink Cable

Spotted some pink cable on e-bay...
Not the perfect match but not bad

 

[anthony]

nice find

anyone else noticed the screw in thread 4 that should not be there ? .I have never seen one with the red switch before .Just imagine back in 1959 seeing one of these in a shop window after all the brown stuff heres my three the grey 652a has been in the family since new although its bag is long gone the blue one was i wreck that i recently did up and the green one is my latest find.I am going to make a green bag for it soon its not difficult if you know your way around a sewing machine and it wont be too hard to find pink cloth i made a bag for my 612 a while ago i made a stencil for the logo out of wide masking tape carefully cut out the letters with a razor blade then sprayed coat after coat till i got the desired effect you can see the 612 in the photo

 

[seamusuk]

Early 652s.....

This came from Ebay for spares- .....

 

[seamusuk]

Early!!!!

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[seamusuk]

Switch

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[markanthony5]

fabulous machines

I think that really is a great cosmetic resto of the senior looks brilliant seeing all three vac's together like that in the pinks, has got a wow factor for me brilliant.
very 1950s fashion is pink and white you will find that in cars of the period too,especially in america.

I suspect Hoover may of taken some of these trends of design in colour from the car world,along with shapes.

You can also tell this from the 30's hoover's also.

Im seriously envious of the collection you have there

 

[markanthony5]

hi guys just got mine 48 hrs in my ownership for £10.00

My senior is 22662 serial number and i have the same colour switch as you guys

 

[markanthony5]

hi 74 simon my hoover sighn is on the other side of the bag

just noticed that now it was mentioned by you

 

[techguy189]

Tturbomaster1984

Did you or anyone else notice the spider or spider like insect in the second picture that you posted with the serial number? Yikes!

-Matt

 

[markanthony5]

that spyder may of lived there since the vac was new lol,

i hope no one is going to through spyder out of his home lol,after all its got good taste it chose a classic senior to live in

 

[gottahaveahoove]

excellent find!!

Best of luck w/ that!!
John

 

[vacuumkid47]

WAT

I just noticed the insect and I don't even know he even knows about it.........