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| Post# 136320 , Reply# 4 5/12/2011 at 17:06 (4,731 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
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| Post# 136321 , Reply# 5 5/12/2011 at 17:35 (4,731 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
Constellations
The history of Constellation is fairly straight forward. They have always had the same shape, but the first model (822) had the hose going in the top and did not float. This was shortly upgraded to the 822A - same shape but this one did float. Around 1959 (UK timeline) the styling was changed to have a side mounted hose - the first of these was pink and white. It continued more or less unchanged until until 1981 or so, with just changes in colour and in the carpet/foor nozzle.
The length of production means that they crop up fairly often on ebay - sometimes well priced and sometimes not. At least in NI Hoover cleaners were widley marketed and the Constellation was popular, so you should have little trouble in finding one, with a little patience. Al | ||
| Post# 136324 , Reply# 6 5/12/2011 at 18:14 (4,731 days old) by supermaticjames () | ||
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Thank's Al And thank you all for the welcomes. I am looking at one on eBay right now which seems ok? James. CLICK HERE TO GO TO supermaticjames's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 136327 , Reply# 7 5/12/2011 at 18:20 (4,731 days old) by Crevicetool (GA ) | ||
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Welcome to the forum James. You guys spell toools funny over there. Just like colour, honour, centre..... tehehehe | ||
| Post# 136395 , Reply# 8 5/13/2011 at 07:58 (4,730 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Check it out
James
Well its not a bad price and I have seen others in worse condition for more. Its a late model too - there was a "mint" (as in very good condition) one of these on ebay very recently, I think it started at £50. Be warned though before bidding - check with the seller that he will actually ship it to Ireland and what he will want to charge - although I believe the seller knows his cleaners and honestly represents their true condition, he has a bit of a reputation of being difficult - I have no personal experience of that (he has bought from me, and I think I have from him) but others have mentioned it .... But I think I would bide my time, there are plenty of them around and I would be amazed if you could not find one locally in the classified ads, auctions, junk shops or even ebay or do you have an equivalent of Freecycle? Like I said, just be patient Al | ||
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