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| Post# 118343 12/16/2010 at 00:58 (4,873 days old) by beerad (Beautiful Vancouver BC) | ||
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here is my mint LUX AP 280. 
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| Post# 118350 , Reply# 1 12/16/2010 at 03:47 (4,873 days old) by animebsd () | ||
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wow! looks great! | ||
| Post# 118353 , Reply# 2 12/16/2010 at 04:00 (4,873 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Nice vacs. The only thing I don't like about mine is that the hose seems just a wee bit too short. Another foot would have made it all that much better. | ||
Post# 118355 , Reply# 3 12/16/2010 at 07:09 (4,873 days old) by countryguy  (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 118357 , Reply# 4 12/16/2010 at 07:43 (4,873 days old) by klectrolux () | ||
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Nice 280! Your PN looks way better than mine. I too find the hose on any Electrolux too short, hard to dust anything up high or deep. The 280 is a sweet machine. | ||
| Post# 118374 , Reply# 5 12/16/2010 at 09:35 (4,873 days old) by scvacuumguy (SC) | ||
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| Post# 118375 , Reply# 6 12/16/2010 at 10:02 (4,873 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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I second that!!! For North Carolina as well , I would love to find European or Canadian machines! | ||
| Post# 118379 , Reply# 7 12/16/2010 at 11:02 (4,873 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas) | ||
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| Post# 118386 , Reply# 8 12/16/2010 at 13:44 (4,873 days old) by beerad (Beautiful Vancouver BC) | ||
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thanks I am going to get a new replacement hose. I really like these power nozzels. | ||
| Post# 118399 , Reply# 9 12/16/2010 at 15:53 (4,873 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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My model 2100 has a longer vinyl hose, not sure if it's original but I think it is.. and it makes a world of difference | ||
| Post# 118401 , Reply# 10 12/16/2010 at 16:03 (4,873 days old) by tom519 (Long Island, New York ) | ||
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Beerad Nice machine !! I don't know much about Electrolux, only Kirbys, when was this vacuum produced? My guess is mid '70s. | ||
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Post# 118420 , Reply# 11 12/16/2010 at 17:17 (4,873 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 118426 , Reply# 12 12/16/2010 at 17:47 (4,873 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Hi there Bill.....
I don't know for certain who owned the Electrolux plant in Canada, but if I had to hazard a guess, I would say that the assembly plant in Montreal that I knew as a kid was a subsidiary of the American company. It is possible that the Canadian division did not open until Electrolux in the States was sold to Consolidated Foods in 1968. Consolidated Foods had a strong Canadian connection, and I think that may have been the exact time that the Montreal plant on the Trans-Canada Highway opened. It would be interesting to find out if there were any distinctively "Canadian" Electrolux canisters made before the sale to Consolidated Foods in 1968. Before that year, I would guess that all Electrolux canisters were imported into Canada from the American plant in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. At some point in the 1960's (not sure which year), I think the Canadian government required American companies to set up subsidiaries in Canada in order to provide work for Canadians and in order to abide by our unions' demands for proper health benefits and retirement benefits. We also had regulations that required French instruction manuals and marketing materials to be made available. That is why every vac maker (Hoover, Eureka, etc.) had their own Canadian factories by the 1970's. See Charlie Lester's site for a bit more background to Electrolux: CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 118435 , Reply# 14 12/16/2010 at 19:19 (4,873 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Hey Bob! Thanks for that clarification!
Most of Montreal's suburbs are their own independent cities with their own mayors. My family lived in one suburb closer to the main city of Montreal (Cote St. Luc), and the Electrolux plant that I knew on the Trans Canada Highway in the 1960's was indeed in the City of Pointe Claire, near our big Fairview Shopping Centre (they used to call it Fairview Centre Pointe Claire). We had cousins who lived in the new suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux which you got to from the Sources Road exit just west of the Electrolux plant. Next door to Electrolux was the head office of the Boy Scouts of Canada!!! If the vac documentation said Montreal, then it probably was in the City of Montreal itself, not Pointe Claire. So I think you probably have the correct date of the opening of the Pointe Claire plant - around 1964-65. Did not know about the Brockville plant though. Must have been a result of the separatist PQ coming to power in the fall of 1976. Many companies in Quebec started moving over to Ontario after Rene Levesque came to power...... Here's a mapquest map of the intersection of Highway 40 (the Trans-Canada Autoroute) and Sources Boulevard on the West Island of Montreal. The Electrolux plant was just east of this intersection, on the north side of the highway. CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 118438 , Reply# 15 12/16/2010 at 19:46 (4,873 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas) | ||
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Canadian Electrolux | ||
| Post# 118443 , Reply# 17 12/16/2010 at 20:36 (4,873 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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That's my childhood Electrolux plant!!!!! | ||
| Post# 118489 , Reply# 18 12/17/2010 at 09:02 (4,872 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Hey Bob....question for you: | ||
| Post# 118498 , Reply# 20 12/17/2010 at 10:14 (4,872 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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