hoover sovereign.......

[1926700]

hey all.....hers another find that's very neat....a hoover sovereign....

now i was told these were only produced for a couple months here in the us.....and how many models were produced?

and just fyi...this is the most uncomfortable hoover ive ever used...im a little over 6ft....and this machine is maybe only as tall as a Regina Brush.n.beat.....

 

[twocvbloke]

Looks like a TurboPower to me, but then, Hoover naming seems to always differ between the UK and US...

I have a set of tools that would probably fit that...

 

[vacbear58]

Turbopower

As it was known in the UK. More or less a replacement for the Junior, although the production overlapped for five years or so, and the softbag version was even badged as Junior. We had loads of variants of these including a "bagless" version in the mid 1990s. The mainline Hoover versions generally did not have headlights, those were (mostly) for exclusives. Later versions had permanently attached hoses, which was basically a variation of that used from the 150 onwards, until the pan converter was re-adopted - this was supposedly an improvement on using a pan, as shown above. Basically a small hole was cut in the upper left hand side of the base into the suction channel from the brushroll- the worst of both worlds crap suction and a small exit from the hose into the machine as there was no diversion of suction from the brushroll. Very popular machine here and my (late) Junior version of this has terrific suction
Al

 

[portable]

Jason -
That US Sovereign is rare as hen's teeth. I can't tell you how long they were sold here. I saw them VERY briefly in 1984. Here's a Macy's ad from December of 1984 (from the San Francisco Chronicle). They stopped carrying them within about a MONTH of this ad! Obviously more durable as the Turbopower in the UK!

 

[powertank]

Ugh. I saw a beat up tan one of those in a thift store recently as well as a Decade 80. I was not impressed with the quality, so I steered clear of it.

 

[vacman117]

WOW!

Congratulations on that find! How did you come across it?

 

[sebox4]

In England, the verb is to "Hooverize"...

Really!?

I've never heard anyone use that term in all my life!

Lovely machines though, build quality was not the best but the performance certainly more than makes up for it!

Anyway, must dash now, off to "Hooverize" the carpets *LOL*

Matt

 

[eurekaprince]

I much prefer to Eurekarize! Others prefer to Oreckize or Riccarize - hey that last one has a nice ring to it!!!!!

(They really should have given the job of copywriting for this ad to someone from the UK!!!)

 

[twocvbloke]

"In england, nobody ever says 'vacuum'..."

I do, cos Hoover is a brand that made washers, dryers, irons, kettles, fridges, freezers, toasters, and vacuum cleaners too...

I'd love to see someone "hoover" their floor with a twin-tub....

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Now!!

Now theres a inventon!! Clean your floors why you was your clothes;o)

James)

 

[kc_kirby]

Jason acquired the vacuum from me. I found it in a thrift store here in Kansas City. I was shocked to find something so rare in that particular store. It was just a lucky day I guess. I didn't know much about it other than I had never seen one in person and I figured it was a British made Hoover. I had no idea just how rare it really is.

Chad Cunningham

 

[djtaylor]

Hooverize

I've never heard of it called 'Hooverize', I have heard the term
to 'Hoover' the carpet. I have also heard that the British call it 'Hoovering' the carpet because it was Hoover that mass marketed to the British public first. Whereas if it had been Goblin then the term might have been to 'Goblin' up the dust. I got that from an episode of 'Are You Being Served?'.
I wonder what they would have called it if Royal had sold in Britain in the 1920's?
Justin

 

[twocvbloke]

Imagine if the Hoover brand remained in the Spangler name;

Don't mind me, I'm just Spanglering the floors...





:S

 

[turbo500]

In our house, the vacuum always has, and still is referred to as "the 'oovah" or "doing the oovaring" lol. Must be a northern thing

 

[turbo500]

there was no diversion of suction from the brushroll

Al, my turbopower TS has a similar set up to the Turbomaster. When you slide the height adjuster onto the "tools" setting it diverts the suction onto the hose. Perhaps this was something that was on the later models? Mine dates from December 94.

 

[vacbear58]

Turbopower bagless

Chris
My comment arose from what I saw in by Turbopower "Freedom" the so called bagless one, and I could not see any way that the suction was diverted to teh hose. There is some suction of course, but not much, arther like teh Senior/US Convertable. When I got the cleaner, the attachement point was almost blocked with Shake and Vac (the whole inside of the cleaner was covered and caked with S&V in fact) and other gunk, it was so small
Al

 

[rolls_rapide]

Turbopower Total System

They did indeed divert suction to the hose, by a sliding shutter that moved via the "height right selector". One had to be careful to turn the machine off before switching back to floor mode, else the shutter return spring broke, as the suction held the shutter fast in the closed position.

We had the beige Turbopower Autoflex. Very noisy, harsh sounding beast. Upgraded to the first Electrolux Airstream 1000. That was blissful-sounding in comparison.