Thread Number: 27571
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Electrolux Corp. Model L - 1962 Sales Receipt |
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Post# 308543 , Reply# 2   12/11/2014 at 20:27 (3,422 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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~ I'm inclined to agree with Rugsucker, because the date of 1963 for the Model L was given to me by two different Electrolux salesmen, both of whom worked for the company during that time and neither of which knew the other. I don't know how to account for the 1962 date in the receipt above, especially since it was in the middle of the year. Electrolux did "pre-release" some machines in certain areas of the country and that may have been the case. It's kinda odd that the "62" part of the date was circled, as if to make a point of it. Granted, we who have researched Electrolux history know that their historical information can only be trusted so far, indeed, even as to their mistaken run-dates for the R & L models in so many different corporate-published documents. But I think those salesmen who were "in the trenches" at that time would know. One of the gents I know went to work just when the Model F was introduced. The Model E was still being offered at the time as the economy model and he said he sold many of them. I had many long and interesting chats with him about the company history at that time. I asked him one day if he recalled when the power nozzle came out. He exclaimed, "Oh my God! That was the most fantastic thing in the world! We'd sell them so fast we couldn't keep them in stock! They went with most of the new Fs that we sold, and many people were asking if they could be fitted to older models. Before long, Electrolux came out with upgrade kits for the early F and EA, and then not too long after that for the Model E. They never did offer them with models older than that. Their thinking was that customers with those old machines really needed to trade-in for new machines, and I can't tell you how many of them did so, just to get the power nozzle!" (I'm surely paraphrasing a bit but that =is= the gist of his remarks.) |
Post# 308592 , Reply# 3   12/12/2014 at 12:22 (3,422 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest)   |   | |
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In these days of identity theft, though I know no one on this site would do so, outsiders can access this site. I would suggest blurring the Rep's SS#. I know its from 50 some years ago, just don't want to tempt anyone. |