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Thanks for sharing, It is a lovely machine. I remember a neighbor of one of my Aunts had a new one. Invited me to
see it and let me help use it. I was thrilled.
Norm

As usual, Charles. I'm rather fond of the E, AE, myself. Being the models in production at the time the world was blessed with my birth! By the way, I would like to purchase from you the lowly crevice tool, I'll be sending my $0.49 today! LOL

Thanks, that shows it off beautifully.

Thanks for the pics. That is a great looking machine. I hope I can make mine look like that. Do you use the one pictured, or do you have several Es that you use? How do you find the suction on this?

Well Charles once again I'm impressed with your website and your wonderful pictures. I know you must put a lot of time into making your website. I wouldn't know were to begin to do that. But without it i wouldn't know what originally went with my Electrolux's. Not only do your machines look in excellent condition. But were or were do you find these original straight suction cloth hoses?! I can't for the life of me find one in my area. I've called every vacuum dealer in my community. I go to flea markets, garage sale, estate sales etc. And nothing. To me, finding a vacuum in decent shape is only half the battle. Getting the original hose's and attachments seem much harder to do. So now i come to a shameless plea. Can you help make this Christmas bright for a lonely Electrolux longing for it's long lost hose? If you have any decent hose's available for a Electrolux XXX, LX or LXI and a A or AE. Please let me know. I'm extremely interested in getting at least one good hose!

Thanks, all, for the kind comments.

I have a few old cloth hoses primarily because I have been collecting vacuum cleaners for nearly 35 years. I have had some of them for that long, including a really nice and complete Model E, with original hose, that I found in a thrift shop in Annapolis, Maryland for three dollars back in 1977.

Original cloth hoses -are- scarce nowadays, as most of them were long-ago replaced. But they do still turn up from time to time -- witness the incredible 1939 Model XXX that I received out of the blue just a month or so ago. You just have to he patient and keep looking, or, more aptly I suppose, keep waiting.

I have five Model Es, two in complete and all-original condition and the other three in very nice shape but not complete. Each of them is slightly different somehow - e.g., one has the stabilizing foot, one has the optional cord winder (that had to be installed by the repairman at the Electrolux branch office because it had to be hard-wired), and the others have even more minute variations that only someone as obsessive as I am about this model would be aware of!

Enjoyed the website very much. It's always a treat to see one so well done.

that is a very nice web site it teaches history with Great knowledge I have learned a lot. Awesome Page
Email me at magvac1004@yahoo.com and we can tlk more about electrolux

Electroluxxxx Mike, judging from your profile, you have quite a collection. Would love to see some photos of your machines posted here!

Speaking of which.......

Er, Marty: tapping foot impatiently.......!

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And no, I am not tappy McHappy Pants ... I am tapping for photos of Mr. Rocha's Fabuluxe Supernal Eye-Boggling Vacuum Cleaner Center!!

Charles, you've done it again! Loved the new addition to your website, and the additional photos in it that I hadn't seen before. The E and the AE were both beautiful machines. Thank you for sharing these with us.
Jeff

Thank you, Charles, for all the pictures of the E. Your work is very nice. How do you find the E in relation to a Super J? noise? suction? I feel that my E may need some motor work? It shouldn't be louder than the Super J should it?
Tim

The E is significantly quieter than the Super J and not as powerful. But as Stan Kann once put it, you only need enough suction power to move the dirt from the floor to the bag. Many modern machines really are overkill in terms of power. You really don't get more efficient or rapid cleaning performance, but you do get a headache from the screeching motors!

Okay, I have just completed a major addition to my new "Model E" feature -- a very detailed comparison of the early and later versions of this model.

Enjoy! Revel in my detail-oriented obsessiveness! hahaha

The fine detail disclosures are interesting, of course, and I almost came up with another variation. I was convinced this morning that in the baby ad, the bulgy end of the tank was in the front. I have since found out it is not, and is the correct proportion after all.

you actually saw my collection that was not even half I have about 7 more luxes, 4 kirbys, and at least 6 eurekas, but the truth comes out nothing Beats an electrolux. Also I just recieved from ebay a 1940's Hoover Aero Dyne all original too and Clean. you would not believe the stuff I got from e bay. Hey Email me at magvac1004@yahoo.com we can keep in touch. also I will add some pics here.
Mike

A fellow collector emailed and asked:

"Just out of curiosity, why is the E your favorite? It certainly not the best looking model Electrolux ever made and it was the budget model. We had an AE when I was a child which I thought was the cats meow until be got a turquoise G. Then I really fell in love."

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Here is my reply:

I guess I'd have to answer that question the same way I answer the question when people ask "Why do you like old vacuum cleaners?"

"Just because!"

Actually, I am sure it's due in large part to the fact that when I was very young, our next-door neighbor in Hampton, Virginia had one. You will recall that my mom had an AE, and the people next door, whose two sons were my playmates, had an E. I was endlessly fascinated with the differences between it and my mom's AE -- the way the front cover came off instead of hinging open, the blue hose coupler, the friction-fit floor tool, the lack of suction relief vent on the hose handle.......!

Yes, even at 3 and 4 years of age I was observant enough to notice all that! I even remember exactly how Mrs. Stroud put it away when she was finished using it - she removed the hose, wands and brush, neatly coiled the cord around the halo, rested the machine on the floor in the hall closet, tucked the wands and brush in front of it and draped the hose around it.

My mom, when finished, would basically just toss the whole machine, still all connected, into our hall closet, then throw the cord in after it! I would go in there and rearrange it like Mrs. Stroud's, which would annoy Mama to no end the next time she would go get it to do her cleaning. She would fuss about having to put it all together again!

I got a good spanking one time when I tried to remove the hinge from my Mom's AE to make the cover come off like Mrs. Stroud's E. I had figured out what was holding the AE cover in place - the small silver bar at the bottom, and was trying to bang it with a hammer. (Okay, give me a break - I was 3!) Mama heard me whapping with the hammer, came running to see what was going on, saw me pounding on her sweeper, and began pounding on me! How does a 3-year-old kid explain to his very annoyed mother that he was just trying to modify her Electrolux?!

(Another time, I decided I was going to "fix" her sweeper. I literally took out every screw until the thing was just a pile of parts. This of course elicited another dose of corporal punishment, and yet another one when Daddy couldn't get it all back together correctly and they had to call the Electrolux man to come out to put it right again!!)

One lady, a fellow church organist of my mom's, had one that she kept in her front hall closet. Every time I would go over there I would have to go peek in the closet to look at it. I remember her son, who was a teenager at the time, teasing me about it. He stood in front of the closet door and would not let me in to see it. So I did what any kid would do - I kicked him in the shins!

Then, when I was around 11 years old we moved to another part of Virginia and there was a large general market and seafood store down on the waterfront where we kids would go buy candy and gum. One day I was there wandering around and I saw in the back of the store one of those huge chest-type deep-freezes. Draped over top of it was a long, long vacuum cleaner hose - a gray cloth hose with blue chevron tracing!

I immediately recognized it as an Electrolux hose but I had never seen one that long! It literally was so long that it nearly touched the floor on both ends, even draped longwise across that huge deep freeze. So I knew there had to be an Electrolux around there somewhere and I began looking. I looked high and low and could not find it.

Then I had to "go pee" so I asked the man who ran the store, Mr. Callis, to use the bathroom. It was way, way back in a rear corner of the store. I went in there, turned on the light, closed the door, and there, standing on end, was a Model E! Needless to say, thereafter I seemed to have many urgent needs to go to the bathroom when I was at Callis' Market!

(It was not until many years later, when I was an adult, that I discovered Electrolux use to sell a "commercial length" hose -- there was an extra-long XXX style, and also an LX/E style. Apparently, Mr. Callis had gotten the extra long hose with the E for his market.)

Another Model E that I have a lot of memories of was one that had a cord winder. The electric lead from the cord winder had been hard-wired to the switch inside the motor housing, so the cord winder was not removable. The hose on that E was an older hose, from an XXX. I always wondered about that until one day I was playing with the lady's kids in their grandparents' old barn and I saw, over in a corner, a Model XXX - with an E hose!!

Then there was another lady who had an E that had been wired up for a power nozzle -- early Model G vintage, and with a new turquoise G hose. The power nozzle connector was down on the bottom of the machine, in a little metal box that had been attached underneath, just behind the front wheel. I was supposed to go there to mow her grass, but somehow I always ended up doing her vacuuming as well!

And I remember seeing several quite a few other Es when I was a kid. While I was happy to use any vacuum cleaner, regardless of how humble, I don't know, there was just something about the Model E that really sent my heart racing!

The only other machine that really got me as enthralled as the Model E Electrolux was the 513-515 Kirby. But that's another story!