Thread Number: 18155
Electrolux XXX Small *Metal* upholstery nozzle & duster? Where to find?! |
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Post# 198828 , Reply# 1   9/3/2012 at 00:57 (4,224 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 198902 , Reply# 2   9/3/2012 at 12:20 (4,223 days old) by drlarch ()   |   | |
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Great - thanks for the feedback. I'll guess I'll just have to keep watching then... |
Post# 199034 , Reply# 3   9/3/2012 at 23:36 (4,223 days old) by hooverboy81 (Myrtle Place)   |   | |
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Post# 282823 , Reply# 5   6/2/2014 at 20:22 (3,586 days old) by kevin (Livonia)   |   | |
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What years were the bakelite Electrolux attachments made? Also, I have seen hammertone blue-painted floor tools and rug tools, but were the dusting brushes and upholstery tools ever painted that color? |
Post# 282836 , Reply# 6   6/2/2014 at 21:25 (3,586 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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I believe the bakelite tools were manufactured during the War-World II era-As all metal was going toward the war effort. Bakelite isn't metal-So they were likely sold with rebuilt Electroluxes!
I don't believe they were ever painted-Charles Lester (The resident Electrolux guru, Who I'm sure you have met) Will likely know for sure. |
Post# 282841 , Reply# 7   6/2/2014 at 21:37 (3,586 days old) by BikerRay (Middle Earth)   |   | |
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Post# 282843 , Reply# 8   6/2/2014 at 21:44 (3,586 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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I'm not 100% certain about all Bakelite tools such as the 'teardrop' upholstery tool, but the standard dusting brush, upholstery tool in the blue/gray, as well as the plastic top to some rug tools, were made during world war 11, when there was a shortage on metal parts. In addition, the top to the model LX sprayer was black Bakelite while the model XXX was metal.
According to my book on the history of Electrolux, written by the top Electrolux brass, the tools other than the rug nozzle and bare floor brush to the short-lived model XX were also Bakelite. Also according to that book, the model XX was slated to replace the XXX, but ended up being sold as the 'war model!' Some people like to challenge me on that, but I doubt if the Electrolux engineering department would state something that's not fact. As for the painted hammer tone blue, my friend Charles Richard Lester is better qualified to answer that one. Hope that helps, Alex Taber. |
Post# 282875 , Reply# 10   6/3/2014 at 01:38 (3,586 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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As for the model XXX, the postwar machines (1945-1954) used Bakelite, but the prewar (1937-1945) used the metal ones. Clearly by the time the LX was introduced in 1952, Electrolux had gone back to metal tools.
But it wasn't just Electrolux, or vacuum cleaner production that was halted, the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, all American manufacturing stopped overnight. Air-Way, Electrolux, Hoover, Kirby and countless others as well as Ford automobiles and every other company were told to go into 'war production.' Electrolux motors designed for vacuum cleaners, now powered generators, and other things. The term was 'motors that fight!' Then in 1945, when the war was over, Electrolux launched into the most advanced vacuum cleaner made up to that time, the model LX. And the rest, as they say, is history. |