A Sliverado with the earlier J style handle is very likely a bojack replacement. The earlier handle and top assembly can be used on later bodied metal canisters as it only uses the 2 screws at the blower and one just behind the latch, later top assemblies will not work on the early machines as the horizontal carry handle screws directly to the metal body and pre-1401 models do not have the necessary threaded nut.

All Olympia's and the first run on Silverado's have metal inner doors, plastic was introduced during the run of the Silverado before the introduction of the PN5. I work at an Aerus franchise and the owner has been selling Aerus/Electrolux since 1964 and that is his recollection. May or may not be 100% accurate as I've found some inconsistencies in his memory before...

Oh yeah, forgot to say in my last post. One handle - 1401, two handles 1401-B the B designation is for the change in handle and body design.

Well I'll be. Learn something new every single day on this forum. Have to file these pictures in my archives.

As far as I can determine, from asking many old time Electrolux folks, including a few Engineers, there were never any brown Silverado's. They were always a bluish silver gray.

Also, the single handle design isn't really the same as the 1401. It has the later rear handle from the 1401-B and an integrated front handle/finger grip. As was mentioned earlier, there were very likely top assemblies from earlier machines and they used them up in those early Silverado's. Electrolux made some very interesting management decisions through the years, this is an example of one.

Kevin,

I would have to assume that you have come to the right conclusion. Model 1505 is a Silverado, however it is much more likely that this was purchased at a general vacuum store and was put together from 2 or more machines and painted to match.. or it may be a 1505 that was originally Sliver and repainted to meet the request of the purchaser for an earth tone canister to match the decor... the only way to know for sure is to take it all apart and look at all the pieces and attempt to reconstruct it's history.

Tom

hmmmm... so I found the listing and took a better look at the pictures. Something very interesting has come to mind... I wonder if Electrolux began the switchover to the new plastic inner door before the run of the Olympia was done and in fact this is an original Olympia with a factory produced plastic inner door at the very end of the run. Any chance we can get the seller to provide a picture of the label on the top of the machine and/or the serial #? The tools and PN4A are all in Olympia colors and the PN does not appear to be repainted.... could be another one of those interesting management decisions. Typically, retooling was done during a 3 week factory shutdown at the end of the year with new models released no later than the April sales drive. It is possible that there were many metal bodies already in inventory complete before the retooling and Olympia production was continued until those bodies were exhausted. There can't be very many of these at all if that was the case... could be a fairly rare example. Serial # would confirm it's production date.

The hose appears to be traced in Blue not Brown, which would make it a Silverado hose... this gets better and better.

An Electrolux branch would not have had a name other than Electrolux  since all branches were company owned and operated at the time. This is a late run Olympia One vacuum made after the switch to the plastic inner door switch over.. the mold was intended for the Silverado and so had the 1505 designation. I can be fairly confident that it was sold as a 1401 Olympia One not as a 1505 Silverado. I'm having the service mgr at my franchise look it up...

Reading the history of State vacuums, this was likely a trade in on a new Kirby in the mid 80's. Service Manager just called and said this vacuum is listed as an 1401-B Olympia One, sold in August of 1982 from the Tampa Branch of Electrolux to Mrs. Ephraim Cohen of Tampa. There are no records of any service at an Electrolux Branch post purchase.

I should say that the information in the database at Aerus is not infallible. Dates tend to be fairly close, but names and addresses from before the mid to late 80's can be hit or miss. Phone #'s are almost non-existent before the late 90's.

The database was much improved in the 90's, before then anyone in the company (well almost anyone) could edit records so there has been some data drift as records were updated incorrectly. The ability to edit records is almost non existent now. Records can be added to, maintenance - sales - services - additional addresses and phone numbers, but the data cannot be altered or deleted any longer.

Serial # stickers to remove from the unit and attached to the contract are no longer used.  I cut it off the box when I sell a machine and then write it on the contract. The cutout is then stapled to my copy of the transaction in case any issues arise for my customers.

Everything is handwritten on 4 part NCR forms.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, is automated - at least in the franchise I work in, and I suspect in most. For the most part, franchises were bought by former branch managers that had been with the company for years.... many are technology phobic. It's taken me a long long time to get my franchisee to let me utilize the web or social media in any way.... baby steps, baby steps. Just registered a domain name and have begun building a web site for me, not even for the franchise... same on Facebook, and I have to explain it all over and over again, progress is slow :-) We are forbidden to sell directly online, but pretty much anything else is allowed - it's cheap exposure and people like to msg, email and set appointments online rather than over the phone - their schedule. I get more e-mails from the little sign on my car than I ever get phone calls... the world has changed and it's way past time to adapt.