My Newest Royal and the Family Reunion!

[vinvac]

Thanks so much to Roger LeQuea, I am now the proud parent of a Royal vacuum that completes one of my biggest dream machines.

A while back, I received as a very special gift the Electro -Hygiene model but have never been able to find the tools or hose adapter needed for the machine. I have the proper set of red tools minus the adapter for the Hygiene.

Well, on my birthday Roger sent a note asking if I would like the Royal complete with attachments.....and even the adapter...making both machines complete.

So you can only imagine my excitement when this vacuum arrived making my whole family complete.

Hope you enjoy the pictures. There are also some shots of my entire collection.

Can you spot the two that are different and why they are different?

Morgan

 

[vinvac]

I always thought Kirby was my favorite...but now...with having a removable head on the Royal/Hygiene...it may be a toss up.

 

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All the tools and something I have never seen before...must call Mike...he is the Royal expert you know...

 

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Has anyone else ever seen this little critter...

hope it not a bojack product...don't want to loose my standing with the Royal family..

 

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another shot

 

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The whole family....minus one who was on an extended trip to Galena to help clean up a mess there. Grandpa in telling the rest of them how important it is to maintain good service! All original and still running strong!

 

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Their new home!

 

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Vacuum Alley!

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

Royal Prestige

@vinvac

Wow, I've never seen a Royal Prestige vacuum! Could you please give me the model and serial # from it?

~Ben

 

[vinvac]

more shots of parts of my collection...can you tell it is the first free day I have had in months...

 

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Daily Drivers...minus the Connie, between the stretch hose and the blower moving cat hair all over the house...we don't get used to much.

 

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a couple of more shots

 

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One last shot!

 

[vinvac]

Ben,

When I get home later this evening I will try to do that for you.

Morgan

 

[aeoliandave]

It is so nice being organized to the point of being able to access any vacuum you wish to play, er, do serious housework with.

Dave

 

[thevacuumguy96]

Hey vinvac,

I like your broomvac! I wish I had one in my collection! They are just so hard to come by here in ID! But I find one someday!

 

[thevacuumguy96]

BTW vinvac,

Nice collection too!

 

[xraytech]

Morgan,

You have a very nice collection.
I love that gold or green Eureka canned ham canister

Sam

 

[vinvac]

Drake,

There was a broom vac out on E-bay, I don't if the auction has ended yet..the last time I looked it did not have any bids and had the full set of attachments.

Morgan

 

[crevicetool]

Great shots of your machines Morgan!! Thanks for posting. I have never seen your machines before. (At least not all together like this). The Royals look fantastic!

Nice!!!

Rick

 

[vinvac]

Rick, Drake, Dave and Sam,


Thanks! I probably should not have posted the pictures until I had cleaned. The winter has kept me busy and so the basement has not been getting it weekly cleaning.

Morgan

 

[luxg]

I agree Morgan, thanks for posting the pictures. I believe this is the first time I have ever seen your collection all together. I happened to be talking to Roger on your birthday and he wondered if i thought you still wanted the machine. I was sure that you did!!! That was a wonderful birthday present!!!

Terry

 

[beerad]

beautiful

beautiful vacs.... can you take a close up pik of the baby blue and chrome Eureka canister or Shetland on the top shelf beside the green and chrome vac?

Thanks.

 

[vac-o-matic]

The Royal Family

Those are gorgeous Royals! They all look like they've been professionally buffed. Who do you send them to for their "spa treatment"? I was just in Kansas visiting Phillip and he gifted me a model 8000 Royal and have been using it as a daily driver, I love it! The one in the pic with the black/red bag is my favorite. I have childhood memories of vacuuming my uncle's supper club in Schiller Park with one, was always enamored with the colors and of course, the crown!

Rick
Still "livin' the dream!"

 

[vinvac]

Rick,

None of my vacuums other than my mom's 508 Kirby have been professionally buffed. I just use a little elbow grease, steel wool and mothers mag.

I love the Black and Red Royal as well. If memory serves me correctly the motor is less than 3 amps on that machine and it still will out clean most of the modern junk on the market today. Even using tools, it has good air flow, better than any of the Hoovers of that time or later. (that direct connect makes all the difference in the world) Talk about being green, if they still made products like that...think of the energy, materials that would be saved. That is why Kirby gets credit for being an enviromently safe product...all parts are fixable, buff them out and they are ready to go again.

My collection is at it's limit. Close to sixty vacuums and the allowed space is now full. There are no vacuums upstairs on the main level and it will stay that way. I am to much of the neat freak to let it go further.

For me it would not be fun if I could not just go grab a vacuum and use it. Now, on occasion I can just walk through the crowd, use a swiffer and keep them looking good. I can pull one down, plug it in, and keep the bearings and motors in good shape. I am a firm believer that they need to be ran to keep them in good shape.

Morgan

 

[vinvac]

Model Numbers

The black and red machine is a model 189 with a 2.8 amp motor. My oldest Royal.

The Royal Machines:

Model 880 400 Watt motor removable head machine
Model 888 400 Watt motor
New Royal model 8300 with a 10 amp drop in motor

Electo Hygiene machines:

Model 903 3 amp motor
Model 980 4 amp motor removable head machine

Certified Electric:

Model 606 3 amp

Stark:

Model 5700 with 7 amp (non-drop in motor)

 

[bagintheback]

vinvac

Do you know that model number for that Eureka in 10th picture of yours. Post# 90297

I think that might my grandma's old Eureka, but it's been so long since I've seen it! Thanks

 

[crevicetool]

O M G !!!!!!!

The Royal Family!!!


I get it now!


Rick

PS......the basement looks fine.......

 

[hygiene903]

Great Pix Morgan!

You have a nice collection that is very well displayed. You have some fine machines.
As for the mystery attachment, it is a crystal chamber and goes back to the days when they first started building Electro-Hygienes with a revolving brush. The deodorizing crystal chamber was an exclusive feature with Electro-Hygiene since the beginning. On the straight suction models it was positioned where the nozzle connected to the fan case. Although the Royal had a revolving brush for many years, Electro-Hygiene remained a straight suction machine until 1955, simply because they didn't know what to do with the crystal chamber. As sales began to drop due to the lack of a revolving brush, someone came up with the idea of making a crystal chamber that would snap on in place of the adjust-o-rite cover, and the model 285 was introduced, the first Electro-Hygiene with a revolving brush.
A similar, but larger version of this chamber was also sold with Royal models of the time as a demother. Later models with the swing-up headlight, such as the 903, had the crystal chamber built in the nozzle below the headlight.
Here's a picture of my model 94 Electro-Hygiene so you can see where the chamber was on the earlier models.
Jeff