<span style="font-size: medium;">Ben,</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">As long as it is metal and it says "Royal" on the label...it has won my heart. I have always loved any of the Royal products. So well built, got the job done, and last a lifetime. </span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">When I was a teenager I worked at the school during the winter part time and full time during the summer as a student custodian in charge of the students under a government assisted school/work program. We used Royal vacuums in our building under the name of "Hild" We had three vacuums and one set of attachments. Those vacuums lasted us almost 15 years.</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">At the high school building, they decided since there was so much more carpet that they would trade in the Royal vacuums they were using for Hoover's. The models with dirt cups and also had the plug on the side of the vacuum for large objects that were picked up....can't think of the model. With in the first month, they replaced the motor in one of the Hoover machines and by the end of the school year they were borrowing our Royal machines as the Hoovers were not keeping up. Hoover Conquest...that might have been the models...they ended up replacing all of them that first year and the most they would last would be three years....</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">I bet if I were to go back, there would still be one of the "Hild" models still sitting in the corner as a spare...now probably 30 years old.</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;">Morgan</span>
