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see my thread #6131 down below. The vac you want is in essence a powered-up Eureka from the 70's that is now sold as a Sanitaire. The vac you want has the name Euroclean and the logo of the parent company Electrolux of Sweden.

Here is an excerpt from thread 6131 which kind of explains where Euroclean fits in.

Actually, the mysterious web of corporate take-overs involving Eureka and Electrolux can really be confusing.

Other members of Vacuumland - feel free to correct or edit this bit of Electrolux history, if I have anything wrong here: In 1969, Sweden's Electrolux sold their North American division (was it both the US and Canadian operations together?) to Consolidated Foods which also owned Sara Lee Cakes. Consolidated Foods was in no way connected to White Consolidated Industries, though. Five years later, in 1974, just when the Eureka Williams Company of Bloomington, Illinois was creating truly "the very best in vacuum cleaners", Sweden's Electrolux purchased it and came back into the North American market.

So by the mid 1970's, North America's Electrolux Company was owned by Consolidated Foods, and North America's Eureka Company was owned by Sweden's Electrolux. According to fundinguniverse.com, Sweden's Electrolux "vacuumed up" White Consolidated Industries (WCI) in 1986. WCI started in 1876 as the White Sewing Machine Company. Up until the 1960's, White supplied Sears with a large portion of their sewing machines. In the 1960's, the company began to diversify, and according to this website "the plan was diversity and the targets were largely appliance concerns. White merged with or acquired roughly 14 companies in 1960 alone. By 1964, the parent company had changed its name to White Consolidated Industries, or WCI, a reflection of its rainbow of acquisitions, which included: the Kelvinator Appliance Division, from American Motors; Gibson, which was then Westinghouse's appliance division; and Franklin Appliance Division of Studebaker." In 1975, WCI bought the major appliance division of Westinghouse and I guess that's when we started seeing White Westinghouse stoves and refrigerators.

So when Sweden's Electrolux bought WCI in 1986 I guess somebody thought it might be fun to slap the Westinghouse name on some Eureka vacs! Why the Electrolux management team thought it best to fold Eureka into the WCI division of Electrolux, I don't know.

According to this funding universe website, the WCI division of Electrolux now covers the following list of brand-names: Principal Subsidiaries: Frigidaire Company; The Eureka Company; Schrock Cabinet Company; American Yard Products; Poulan/Weed Eater; Americold; Baring Industries; Beam Industries; Challenge Industries, Inc.; Dimas; Dito Dean Food Prep; Dometic Corporation; Euroclean; Husqvarna Forest & Garden Company; The Kent Company; Partner Industrial Products; Richards-Wilcox; VWS; Wascator Manufacturing; Washex Machinery Company.

Hope this helps!


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Post# 71093 6/3/2009 at 01:05 (5,434 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes or know where one of these is for sale? It is a Euroclean vacuum. I grew up with these in elementary school and would absolutely kill to get one. It was the very first commercial vacuum I ever used as well as the first Sanitaire re-badge I ever saw too. If ANYONE has ANY info on where I could find one for a reasonable price please email me, mgeda@att.net. Thank you so much in advance. Here is a picture of one.

Post# 71139 , Reply# 1 6/3/2009 at 18:43 (5,434 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes Anyone?

Post# 71151 , Reply# 2 6/3/2009 at 23:20 (5,433 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)
Checkrate/Likes Looks just like a powr flite

Post# 71157 , Reply# 3 6/3/2009 at 23:40 (5,433 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes Here's a pic of it's base.

Post# 71158 , Reply# 4 6/4/2009 at 00:12 (5,433 days old) by tristar ()
Checkrate/Likes So it's a newer model then.......since Electrolux bought out Eureka. The one you show has the Electrolux logo on it. Will a modern Sanitaire not fit the bill? it's the same machine after all...

Post# 71159 , Reply# 5 6/4/2009 at 00:15 (5,433 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes No a regular Sanitaire will not do. I grew up around Eurocleans and that is the machine I want.

Post# 71160 , Reply# 6 6/4/2009 at 00:18 (5,433 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes I almost forgot that logo used to be the Kent Industrial logo. And Kent used to be Euroclean's partner company.

Post# 71172 , Reply# 7 6/4/2009 at 08:31 (5,433 days old) by kirbyvacuum (Long Island New York)
Checkrate/Likes *Question* Hi Eric Would you be able to tell me about when Electrolux bought out Eureka. Do you think that was a good move?

Post# 71173 , Reply# 8 6/4/2009 at 08:32 (5,433 days old) by kirbyvacuum (Long Island New York)
Checkrate/Likes *Question* Hi Eric Would you be able to tell me about when Electrolux bought out Eureka. Do you think that was a good move?

Post# 71175 , Reply# 10 6/4/2009 at 09:11 (5,433 days old) by tristar ()
Checkrate/Likes For clarity's sake, the Electrolux that bought out Eureka is the European Electrolux which is NOT the same company that made the vacuum cleaners sold in the US before Aerus bought the brand. I'm not sure about the exact date of purchase, although I know for a fact that they were joined at the hip in 2006. We had one of those god-awful Eurekalux Minima yellow plastivacs at our shop and it clearly stated on the nameplate that it was an Electrolux. Perhaps someone here knows a more precise date. That said, judging by some of the awful machines Eureka was turning out at the time, I wouldn't say that the merger brought them down any, but I also wouldn't go out and say it improved them any either. I still remember the horrible Eureka Bravo/Boss we had at our shop before the Minima came on the scene. Truly....one of the WORST vacuums I've ever used. Didn't clean well, constantly going through brushrolls and belts.....ran so hot it always smelled like it was burning......but it was DESIGNED that way! Sad as it is, I'd take an Elite over one of the late Eurekas any day.....and I'm not an Elite fan! I am very happy though that Electrolux kept the Sanitaire intact as it is, although who knows how much longer they'll be around in their current form. Speaking of Sanitaires......my S670 was made in 2005 and doesn't have a single mention on it anywhere of Electrolux, although it DOES say Eureka on it..... I wonder if the merger took place sometime between 2005 and 2006?

Post# 71248 , Reply# 12 6/5/2009 at 08:59 (5,432 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)
Checkrate/Likes *Kent Euroclean Update.....* I just googled "Euroclean" on the web, and guess what? Sweden's Electrolux has recently sold these divisions to the Danish vac company Nilfisk. Go to www.kenteuroclean.com/AboutUs/Abo... for more information. Boy....it's sure hard to keep up with all these multinational corporate changes. It's gotten to the point that if you see a brandname on a product in a store, you really no longer know which company is behind the name. If I discuss the purchase of a home appliance with someone, they usually say something like: "Oh, yes....Sunbeam has always made great mixers..." Then I have to break it to them that Sunbeam no longer exists and that the name is being slapped onto some products made in China by some European multinational. I loved it when all of a sudden we started seeing the name "Lewyt" on some plastic vacs a few years ago! Something told me they were not made in Brooklyn! And try to figure out who is making all those Black and Decker toaster-ovens now! It ain't GE or Black and Decker!

Post# 71281 , Reply# 13 6/5/2009 at 14:46 (5,432 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()
Checkrate/Likes In 2001 Kent and Euroclean merged and in 2006 Nilfisk/Advance bought Kent/Euroclean and all are still sold under their original brandnames. The Sanitaire re-badges are as follows: Advance: ReliaVac Kent/Euroclean: SelectVac All are excellent machines. They are simple and effective.

Post# 71174 , Reply# 9 6/4/2009 at 08:33 (5,433 days old) by kirbyvacuum (Long Island New York)
Checkrate/Likes *Sorry* Sorry for mistake Doug

Post# 71238 , Reply# 11 6/5/2009 at 08:14 (5,432 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)
Checkrate/Likes *For more information on the history of Electrolux in North A* see my thread #6131 down below. The vac you want is in essence a powered-up Eureka from the 70's that is now sold as a Sanitaire. The vac you want has the name Euroclean and the logo of the parent company Electrolux of Sweden. Here is an excerpt from thread 6131 which kind of explains where Euroclean fits in. Actually, the mysterious web of corporate take-overs involving Eureka and Electrolux can really be confusing. Other members of Vacuumland - feel free to correct or edit this bit of Electrolux history, if I have anything wrong here: In 1969, Sweden's Electrolux sold their North American division (was it both the US and Canadian operations together?) to Consolidated Foods which also owned Sara Lee Cakes. Consolidated Foods was in no way connected to White Consolidated Industries, though. Five years later, in 1974, just when the Eureka Williams Company of Bloomington, Illinois was creating truly "the very best in vacuum cleaners", Sweden's Electrolux purchased it and came back into the North American market. So by the mid 1970's, North America's Electrolux Company was owned by Consolidated Foods, and North America's Eureka Company was owned by Sweden's Electrolux. According to fundinguniverse.com, Sweden's Electrolux "vacuumed up" White Consolidated Industries (WCI) in 1986. WCI started in 1876 as the White Sewing Machine Company. Up until the 1960's, White supplied Sears with a large portion of their sewing machines. In the 1960's, the company began to diversify, and according to this website "the plan was diversity and the targets were largely appliance concerns. White merged with or acquired roughly 14 companies in 1960 alone. By 1964, the parent company had changed its name to White Consolidated Industries, or WCI, a reflection of its rainbow of acquisitions, which included: the Kelvinator Appliance Division, from American Motors; Gibson, which was then Westinghouse's appliance division; and Franklin Appliance Division of Studebaker." In 1975, WCI bought the major appliance division of Westinghouse and I guess that's when we started seeing White Westinghouse stoves and refrigerators. So when Sweden's Electrolux bought WCI in 1986 I guess somebody thought it might be fun to slap the Westinghouse name on some Eureka vacs! Why the Electrolux management team thought it best to fold Eureka into the WCI division of Electrolux, I don't know. According to this funding universe website, the WCI division of Electrolux now covers the following list of brand-names: Principal Subsidiaries: Frigidaire Company; The Eureka Company; Schrock Cabinet Company; American Yard Products; Poulan/Weed Eater; Americold; Baring Industries; Beam Industries; Challenge Industries, Inc.; Dimas; Dito Dean Food Prep; Dometic Corporation; Euroclean; Husqvarna Forest & Garden Company; The Kent Company; Partner Industrial Products; Richards-Wilcox; VWS; Wascator Manufacturing; Washex Machinery Company. Hope this helps!