An Emdeco-branded Compact?!

EMDEKO was the name of the company that manufactured the Filtex vacuum cleaner. I have a hunch the name came from someone's initials + "CO" -- e.g., "M.D.Co." But I can't swear to that. I do know that the company's president was a woman -- a real first back in the 1930s when it was founded. They may be her initials, I dunno.

Originally the company was located in downtown Los Angeles, on Spring Street, but isn't there any longer. The company is technically still in business but only making central vacuum systems. The company name changed at some point to M&S Systems and then M&S was acquired by Linear Corp. of Carlsbad, California. The central vacuum is now called the AirVac but its "great-grandfather" was the Filtex.

Here's the AirVac web page.