Hoover Junior ST226F

When Hoover announced that they would release a budget upright vacuum which carried the “Junior,” name in 2005, fans of the old model which had sold for well over 40 years grew excited, less so when they actually saw the actual model on Hoover’s website in 2006. You see whereas the old Hoover Junior was made of good old metal, had a low powered motor and a permanent rolling brush based on its “It Beats As it Sweeps As it Cleans,” principle (and then applied to all uprights in the Hoover range in the 1980’s,) Hoover have lost their way somewhat in launching a model which isn’t really a Junior at all. To Europeans outside the UK, they will recognise this ...  Read the complete review