Regina Wizzes can you help identfy the year of this machine.

[clarkecombi]

This looks pretty old. Does anyone know the year of this machine.

http://cgi.ebay.com/REGINA-STEEMER-...ryZ20611QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[myvacsrock]

This is an Oreck made vacuum.
Go on they're site and you'll see what i mean!

 

[clarkecombi]

I know that. the regina carpet cleaner and the oreck stemer are alike. i had one for a long time. I just want the year of this machine because it looks old.

 

[vinvac]

Actually, I think David Oreck took over the Regina line when they folded. I also think the company that now owns Royal also uses part of the Regina line as knew it as well.

Morgan

 

[rugmaster37]

Rah-GEE-NAH Stea-MAH...Car-PET Clea-NAH......

Gosh,

I can still think I rememeber part of the original television jingle. This seems to be one of the very first models, If not the first from the mid to late 1980's. I believe that this was the first "upright" style of carpet cleaner as well, making that market segment popular right from the start.

IIRC these machines had middling quality, could be bought thru Fingerhut, amongst other places...I rememebr K-mart, Meijer and Woolco having them. And the machine wasn't all that bad consideirng that the alternative (s) then was either a very expensive and bulky Kenmore Power-Spray type of canister for around $300.00+/-, or Bissel's fairlly medium-priced original Carpet Machines for around $200.00+/-....which come to think of it wasn't all that cheap anyway...

Come to think of it, Bissell also offered a "conversion" kit that you could use with any Wet-Dry vac that used that god-awful 50 ft. hose you had to connect to your hot water tap at the sink, that literally was featured on all their original models, until the SC or "self-contained" model debuted in the early 1990's.

Considering all the effort having to be put forth to clean your carpets back then, it's no wonder that this machine changed everything. And literally years later, Hoover, Bissell, Eureka all the major capret machine players got with it and put out an upright style.

I just remember hearing about, and seeing when I began to be a sales/service person with these machines many motor problems, cheap breaking plastic, mainly in the wheelset area, and nozzle neck, hard to find service..(at least in my area) and a fluctuating availability of parts.

That's all....


Chad

Does anyone else remeber the original jingle????

 

[petek]

I remember that jingle just can't think what year those things came out, probably early 80's. Philips (Norelco) bought the company in 95 apparently and sold it to Oreck in 97 from what Wikpedia says. That's why the Orecks today look basically like the original Regina upright vacs from the 70's early 80's. BTW has anyone ever seen a 70's or early 80's Regina upright vac that the Oreck was cloned from on Ebay. I never have.

 

[dualsanitronic]

The original Oreck (The Whirlpool )came out in 1963.The Regina Power Brush 'n' Beat debuted in 1964.The Oreck was first.That Regina was out through the 70s -a cute little thing with the bag in front of the handle,a compact nozzle and 9.75 lbs.,cleaned carpets well enough but awful with tools.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Like this...?



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[hoovercelebrity]

Or this one?

No catchy jingle though...

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[hoovercelebrity]

Isn't YouTube fabulous??

Wow...

Those totally bring back memories. I remember drooling over the ads in the paper for these things in the mid-80s! I probably still have some ads somewhere. I was totally enamored by them. I know for sure I wanted my mom to go out and buy one!

I had a babysitter early on - I was maybe 3 or 4 years old... She had one, and I remember the *event* it was when she let us borrow it for a weekend! ALL of the furniture got moved out of the living room, and I remember my mom vacuuming the hell out of the carpet, then going to work with the Regina. I loved the way the detergent bottle snapped in and got mixed with the water.. And I remember the detergent having a VERY distinct smell. I can almost smell it now!

I know that when Regina folded, Oreck bought their name, or their designs. I think that Oreck, still, to this day sells that contraption - in some modified form. They we still hocking them on TV infomercials within the past 10 years, if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the blast from the past!

~Fred

 

[clarkecombi]

Thats kool

My grandma had the powerbrush TOL model and it worked well,except the back wheels broke off one day. I still got it and use it.

 

[rugmaster37]

Oh mah gad.....

Dear Fred....

you rock....


Yes, that's what I remember quite well. What a landmark that design was tho. Irregardless of it's quality, it brought forth the option by all to clean their carpets privately, and not have to rent or like I posted earlier use one of those old school canister style ones that usually were less convenient than average.

WE....NEVER.....had a steam cleaner until I bought one for my parents in 1997-98, and it was a Bissell Big Green Clean machine ( yes the canister style) which was hocked thru the infomercial by Mary Ellen Pinkham??.

Our means of cleaning rugs previous, was our Kirby Tradition had the shampoo system , which my mom used maybe once a year to thoroughly clean ( uhm..see clean in a relative context) our burnt orange plush pile crap throughout our house. And she usually did it on a weekend that my brothers and I were at our dads, and our step sisters were at their mothers.

I never incidentally see how that system worked until I was nearly 15. And my mom and dad bought that Tradition on December 10th 1979, 12 days before my brother was born. If i had even thought of screwing with it I would still have leather strap mark on my patard now. That Kirby incidentally replaced our Hoover U4003..the banana yellow one with the yellow and green floral bag. I prolly got that model # wrong...lol

Anyhew, while I say "relatively clean" is because when we cleaned that nasty orange stuff after we got that BBGCM, it took up so much soil and left over suds, that I literally rinsed our carpet three times before I didn't have to use any defoamer in the return tank anymore.

But that Regina did innovate, as well as their HouseKeeper uprights. It's too bad that their quality was always an issue, and was really IMHO their downfall.

Chad

 

[electrikbroomgu]

Regina date coded there products in the 70's and 80's through the serial number which should be a 3 digit number. The first number donates the year I believe. If there was a pic of the serial number I could tell for sure. It sure looks mid 80's to me.