Hoover Model 417g

[turbo500]

Hey folks,

Just picked up this little beauty for the grand total of £10. It's dated April 1970. It came with the full set of tools and the manual. Also in the box were a complete set of Hoover Junior tools.

I believe this was Hoover's budget cylinder at the time. It's actually very powerful and incredible solid - much more so than the TOL Freedom's from just a few years later. It's also very quiet.

Overall, very happy with this

 

[turbo500]

Another pic

 

[turbo500]

Some goodies that came with it

 

[vacbear58]

417G

good catch there Chris, these are quite rare. Its the last iteration of a cleaner first sold here in 1953 - US readers will recognise it is the Hoover Holiday. I have only seen two other of these on ebay in the last 13 years (My God is it REALLY that long!) and I snapped up one of them.

From the introduction of the constellation this was Hoover BOL canister although at first it was not that BOL in price. It soldered on through the 1960s with little more than colour changes, until being updated by the 427, although really apart from a style update its not all that different.

Chris, could I ask a big favour for a scan of the instructions please?

Now you will have to get a Junior to go with those tools. And ear defenders LOLOL

Al

 

[turbo500]

Hi Al,

Thank you for the info, much appreciated.

I would glady scan the instructions for you, but I don't have a scanner unfortunately. I can take some pics and post those and then bring it with me to the next meet if you like?

Oh, you've set me a challenge now LOL.

all the best,
Chris

 

[turbo500]

Oh, Al, ignore that - Rosh has just offered to let me borrow his scanner, so I will get it scanned in at some point over the weekend for you

 

[vacbear58]

Manual

That would be great Chris, thank you very much

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Congrats! Love that color! Such a neat little machine!

 

[turbo500]

Thank you Fred .

I agree about the colour. I'm tempted to take it to my local DIY shop and say "mix me a paint in this colour, it would look fabulous in my bathroom"

 

[thekirbylover]

nice find, the color looks the same as my Hoover junior, such a nice color

 

[turbo500]

Hi Michael,

I think that Junior and the 417 I got are from the same line up.

 

[vacbear58]

Colour

They also did the Constellation and polisher in that colour too

 

[vintagerepairer]

My mother used to use one of these exact same cleaners in a house she cleaned. I know this because she once brought it home for me to repair as the lead had become detached where it entered the cleaner. As a machine built to do a job, it excelled in good, basic performance, and my mother loved it for cleaning stairs as it was so easy to lie the cleaner on the step below the one being cleaned. However, she hated the fact that there were no wheels on this cleaner and as the principle task she used it for was vacuuming hard-floors (of which there were oh-so many in this huge old house she went to) she was petrified of marking the floor by pulling the cleaner along. So much so, she actually had a small off-cut of carpet which she lay face-down on the floor and stood the cleaner on the hessian backing. She then pulled the cleaner round the house quite easily. The floor tool was also not really up to being used on hard floors, but that was no bother as I had plenty of old soft brushes in the shop. It was a blue one I gave to her to use with this cleaner and it made such a difference.

 

[turbo500]

Hi Al,

Brochure as requested.

 

[turbo500]

page 2 and 3

 

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page 4

 

[vacbear58]

Instructions

Chris

Thank you so much for doing this. Well they did not kill themselves on the instructions did they? These are almost identical to the instructions from 1963, when the 417g was first introduced

 

[vacbear58]

Matching

Here you go Chris, matches the 417 too

Al

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-J...K_Collectables_Vintage_RL&hash=item3a8b8581f6

 

[turbo500]

Ooooh, thanks Al. That was apparently the cleaner that my Mum had when she first got married. I shall be keeping an eye on that.