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Post# 182011   5/21/2012 at 16:03 (4,358 days old) by frank1002us ()        

I just came across an electrolux model xii on ebay, but it is blue. i have seen it a couple of times and i even have bought one that is not in great shape.

Post# 182040 , Reply# 1   5/21/2012 at 19:17 (4,358 days old) by frank1002us ()        
questions

is this a rebuilt Electrolux?
or is it made as a low price alternative to LX?

i want to mention that there is no rebuilt tag present, and skin is exactly like the LX.


Post# 182042 , Reply# 2   5/21/2012 at 19:31 (4,358 days old) by 1926700 ()        
since no one is awnsering this.....

and i KNOW we HAVE members who know the answer to this!!!!!! i WILL take the liberty and do it my self!!!! that is a model 12, it was originally produced as the one high end canister. but when the model 30 came about it was then the lowline machine. your i think is rebuilt, it should have had brown leatherette body. with chrome ends....wich your has a different body. ive been told that's not a common machine. keep it and take care of it...=)

Post# 182054 , Reply# 3   5/21/2012 at 20:39 (4,358 days old) by frank1002us ()        

i have one with brown leatherette actually more like 5 or 6. there is a lot of them around. i agree that it is probably a rebuilt machine or it was produced as lowline machine when LX was being made.
The other question is that if it is a rebuilt machine was it done by electrolux or is it a bojack rebuilt?


Post# 182073 , Reply# 4   5/21/2012 at 22:08 (4,357 days old) by danemodsandy ()        
Could Be....

....A Metropolitan rebuild. Metropolitan was a company specializing in rebuilds of Electroluxes; they advertised in national magazines like House Beautiful, etc. They began in the Bronx in 1939; they're still around. They would have had the skill and the materials to replace the leatherette as part of a rebuild. The reason for the unusual color could have been so that no one could palm off a Metropolitan rebuild as a new machine; Electrolux itself used to do that, painting machines in colors never made when they were new (like Model Ls and 1205s in hammertone blue), so there was no chance of confusion between rebuilt and new.



Post# 182080 , Reply# 5   5/21/2012 at 23:28 (4,357 days old) by 1926700 ()        
but...i have to correct you,

the 12 was only and lastly made to be the lowline to the 30 (XXX) , after the 60 (LX) came out the 12 was factory discontinued. and the 30 became the budget machine.

Post# 182104 , Reply# 6   5/22/2012 at 10:04 (4,357 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)        

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I have the same machine (ends arent painted though) and, as the covering is the same as that found on the late model 30's I suspect it was either a low line for the last of the 30's or more likely a rebuild during the time that that covering was being used. It does have a full set of 30 style parts too and the machine end that uses the newer style hose coupler.



Post# 182109 , Reply# 7   5/22/2012 at 11:18 (4,357 days old) by frank1002us ()        

the ends on mine is not painted either. the picture i posted was from ebay.
i was hoping that it wouldn't be an electrolux rebuilt or lowline. not a metropolitan or any other bojack outfit.
i was hoping that since the skin is exactly like the LX, a bojacker would not use the same skin.



Post# 182137 , Reply# 8   5/22/2012 at 16:57 (4,357 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Electrolux

Also both complete rebuilt Elux and rebuild kits with proper size and shape covering was available to vac dealers.Both moXII and XXX were sold by catalogs such as Aldens into the 50s & 60s.


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