The thermodynamics of a free Bose gas with effective temperature scale T and hard-sphere Bose gas with the T scale are studied. T arises as the temperature experienced by a single particle in a quantum gas with 2-body harmonic oscillator interaction Vosc, which at low temperatures is expected to simulate, almost correctly, the attractive part of the interatomic potential VHe between 4 He atoms.The repulsive part of VHe is simulated by a hard-sphere (HS) potential. The thermodynamics of this system of HS bosons, with the T temperature scale (HSET), is investigated, first, by the Bogoliubov-Huang method and next by a modified version of this method, which takes approximate account of those terms of the 2-body repulsion which are linear in the zero-momentum Bose operators a0, a * 0 (originally rejected by Bogoliubov). Theoretical heat capacity CV (T ) exhibits good agreement, below 2.1 K, with the experimental heat capacity graph observed in 4 He at saturated vapour pressure. The phase transition to the low-temperature phase , with a Bose-Einstein condensate, occurs in the HSET at T λ =2.17 K, and is accompanied, in the modified HSET version, by a singularity of CV (T ). Other thermal properties of HSET, such as the momentum distribution function, the fraction of atoms in the momentum condensate and normal fluid density, agree qualitatively with those of 4 He, but improve those of the free Bose gas.