Weird Royal (Bojacked?)

[bvac6]

I know this should go in the ebay appropriate forum but this Royal is a weird one. Is it old and retrofitted? Is it a weird straight suction commercial model? What is it, or what was it?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Comme...261219376906?pt=US_Vacuum&hash=item3cd1e35f0a

 

[kloveland]

Straight suction Royal



I know that Royal continued to manufacture straight suction uprights long after other manufactures had stopped making them. We had two in the free pile last year at the Portland convention.

 

[kenkart]

Not a Bojack...

Royal made this into the 70s!, Great for glued down commercial carpet.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

There was another one on eBay months ago, which bore the serial #B79-D-14167, for which its date code translates to February 1979.

The one you just saw is dated February 1974.

~Ben