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Post# 263723   1/17/2014 at 15:56 (3,723 days old) by Kevin (Livonia)        

Hello,

I'm interested in seeing era/color sets of Electrolux cleaners and think others would be, too. On one thread I saw a teal set (1205, L, B-8, and possibly a C-B). Does anyone have pics of the following era/color sets (or pre- or post- ones or Canadian or Swedish ones--sorry, I'm unfamiliar with them)?


'50s LX/LXI/floor polisher/B-7

'50s E/AE/T/floor polisher/B-7

'50s & '60s F/S/R/Turbotool/B-7/floor sweeper

'60s Turquoise G/Turbotool/B-7/B-8/C-A/C-B

'60s Hospital Gs/White L/Rug Washers (cream w/teal and cream w/brown)

'60s Tan G & L/Rug Washer/B-8/C-B

'60s & '70s 1205/L/Rug Washer (teal w/cream trim)/B-8/C-B

'70s 1205 J/L/1401/Rug Washer/B-8/C-B

'70s & '80s 1401 B/1453/1363/Rug Washer/B-8/C-B

'80s 1505/1453/1451/Rug Washer/B-8/B-9/C-B/C2000

'80s 1521/1453/1451E/Rug Washer/B-9/C2000





Post# 263735 , Reply# 1   1/17/2014 at 16:44 (3,723 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I'm unclear as to what you mean by color sets, but I can say there was no B-7 polisher for the LX-LXI-E-EA models. The first B-7 was introduced with the Model F and was designed in matching white and gray colors.

There were several polishers preceding the B-7 that were made in Sweden and available in the U.S. The only one I've ever seen was the B-6. It was a metallic green in color and design-wise nothing like the B-7 except that it had three brushes. The orientation of the three brushes was opposite that of the B-7 e.g., with the B-6 the single brush was at the front of the motor machine whereas with the B-7 the single brush was at the rear. See photo.

Here's a thread from the VacuumLand archives that might interest you. See link.


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Post# 263738 , Reply# 2   1/17/2014 at 16:48 (3,723 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
Cream/Bronze Hospital Model G

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This is my 1967 Hospital Model G

Post# 263742 , Reply# 3   1/17/2014 at 16:49 (3,723 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
1964 Hospital Model G

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With ultra-rare Electric Hose and PN-1 Power Nozzle

Post# 263747 , Reply# 4   1/17/2014 at 16:56 (3,723 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Charles Richard.

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Thank you for posting this. While my grandpa acquired the vacuum cleaners for Choate school, he also got the floor polishers and the one posted here, while not an exact match is close. The one I remember was hammer tone blue, the handle was slightly different, and the cord wasn't removable. However, I was also only about 10 years old, so I'm going on memory but this is close. Good to see it again.

 

Bob Alex Taber.  


Post# 263753 , Reply# 5   1/17/2014 at 17:15 (3,723 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Charles Richard.

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Another thing I recall of the polisher was that there was no switch, it was turned on by lowering the handle. If you did not hold on tight, it could get away from you, and for this reason, my friend Jeanette (the lady who introduced me to the model LX) referred to it as the "dancing waxer!"


Post# 263759 , Reply# 6   1/17/2014 at 17:38 (3,723 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Kevin.

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In your other thread I spoke of Charles Richard Lester getting me to resurrect the V.C.C.C.. Well, it was Tom Gasko who helped us jump start the annual meeting which was simply a gathering of a few club members. We met at my house to talk vacuum cleaner, swap ideas for the newsletter, which I created, wrote and published, and just have fun. However, in 93, Tom and a few friends drove to Naperville, Illinois with a van loaded with vacuum cleaners to give away. This was the turning point, and as my personal collection had outgrown the spare bedroom where it was housed, a few months prior to this gathering, I'd remolded my three car garage into the club museum.  Pictured here. 

 

Tom and Charles Richard were the first serious collectors the club knew, and both were able to turn a ragtag group into a serious collectors club. And when I decided to retire from running the club in May of 95, I knew it was in good hands. Through them, it became the club we have today.


Post# 263773 , Reply# 7   1/17/2014 at 18:48 (3,723 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I can take a little bit of credit for getting the club resurrected again, but can take no credit whatsoever for what it has become today (for better or worse). I've just gone along for the ride, getting off the ride from time to time when it's become a bit too bumpy for me.


Post# 263779 , Reply# 8   1/17/2014 at 20:10 (3,723 days old) by kevin (Livonia)        

Thank you for your messages, pics, and link Alex, dysonman1, and electrolux137. I guess I got mixed up on the B-6 and B-7 floor polishers. Does anyone know the history of the B-6? Was that the only version or were there others (color/style...)?

As for the "sets", I just thought it was cool to see machines in the same era and same/similar colors kind of like you may have seen in stores when they were new and thought there might be some collectors in Vacuumland that have such pics of their collections. So far I haven't found any threads dedicated to "sets". That photo of the teal machines was awesome. I also found a thread with aqua machines, but they were from all different companies. I'm mainly interested in Electroluxes.

It's great to have this forum--so thanks to whomever started or restarted it and/or the club.


Post# 263814 , Reply# 9   1/17/2014 at 23:30 (3,722 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Kevin.

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I've told this story countless times, but for me the interest in vacuum cleaners started at age 2, I'd just seen the Electrolux model LX eject the wrapper, and the obsession was born. Cut to 1972, when I was 22 and acquired my first non electric two person pumper that dated back to circa 1890. From then on, I was a collector.

 

In late summer of 1980, a friend who owned a vacuum cleaner store asked if I'd been to the Hoover Historical Center? I had not even heard of it, but made arrangements to go there. Stacy Krammes, director of the historical center welcomed me with open arms, and it was a fantastic weekend. A year later a collector from California contacted Hoover, and his letter was forwarded to me. This was John Lucia, and a long distance friendship began. In September of 1982, John drove to northwest Indiana to see me, and together we went to the Hoover Historical Center. Upon leaving Stacy gave us a list of about 5 guys interested in collecting. With this I asked John if we should form a club, his response was that it probably wouldn't get very far, but why not contact the people on the list. On January 2, 1983, the V.C.C.C. was born.

 

It's been a wild 31 years, and there are countless people to thank. But the fact is, John Lucia, Mike Pupek, Craig Long, Charles Richard Lester, Tom Gasko, and Clay Floyd were the backbone of the original club. The club John and I founded had no officers, and when Tom Gasko became the first president in May of 1995, I decided to retire. Charles Richard is being modest, but the fact is he launched the V.C.C.C. into cyberspace, and it grew like a weed from there.

 

As Charles said, the club is NOT the same, and there have been a myriad of changes, but it still follows the theme John Lucia and I started. To help people interested in vacuum cleaners learn the history, and find the answers to the question who invented it?


Post# 263848 , Reply# 10   1/18/2014 at 10:36 (3,722 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        

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You are so right Alex. I remember the beginning of the VCCC. We shared our knowledge, and machines, with each other. No alcohol was allowed at the Conventions (what a blessing that was). We shared our instruction manuals (Marty R. has some beautiful ones) and ads. We tried out all the machines, and the owners let us. Your status within the club was not about what you 'owned' but about what you shared and how friendly you were. No 'hands off' signs on the vacs. As a result, we had a blast as a group. As vacuums are meant to be used, it was fun to throw dirt all over the 'suite' at the hotel and clean it up. Remember the 'free pile' at the hotel when we went to Hoover? At least fifty NICE vacuums (gold Rexairs, Air-Way's, Kirby's, coffee can Hoovers with sateen bags, etc.). But that was before eBay and the Internet. After my six years as President, we'd grown to over 100 members. There were so many of my friends whom I am still close to today, that I met during those six years. And now, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum is open to the public, six days per week. And while the Museum has an annual convention (second weekend in June), it's always here anytime any collector wants to come in, learn about vacuums, and try them out.

Post# 263871 , Reply# 11   1/18/2014 at 11:45 (3,722 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Electrolux

Polishers-There was a B-3 in the early days(20s,30s)that was black or dark color.Never known of a 4 or 5.Then then B-6 and B-7 with the AE as above.B-7 started the handle operated switch.The change from T shape handle to newer was during the aqua Mo G days and both match it.
Rug Washers-The larger Rug Washer was early 60s with G.Before this it was a smaller attachment for the TurboTool with the AF.Colors for large RW were both G colors,blue,gold,brown,gray and last was jadestone/sandstone with Diamond Jubilee.( By coincidence I took blue,brown and gray RWs to my EBay seller yesterday.Will have them on with pics next week if interested.)


Post# 263873 , Reply# 12   1/18/2014 at 11:46 (3,722 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Tom.

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Thanks for the kind words, but the fact is, I've always been like that, letting people enjoy themselves. I guess it goes back to the age of about 10, when my grandpa let me play with the discarded vacuum cleaners in the various storerooms at Choate. There were Hoovers by the dozen, assorted Kirby's and Electrolux's galore! To a kid, it was vacuum cleaner heaven. In addition to the vacuum cleaners, there was china, furniture, coffee pots and all sorts of appliances. It was great to see a forest of lamps standing there with assorted shades in every color of the rainbow. And it was his wife, my granny, who instilled in me the are of entertaining. There  was always a pot of coffee going, and some Scottish pastry ready for the mailman, or anybody else who might 'drop-in!' I adopted her 'party' attitude of 'make sure there's enough for everybody!'

 

When John and I decided to form the club, we had no 'agenda,' no pre-set rules to be a member, and expected it to be nothing more than a group of guys sharing experiences. Then I got home from Hoover, and wrote to the people on Stacy's list, inviting them to join a free club, and as a form of incentive I said we would have a newsletter. Here I was, a man who knew nothing about writing professionally, and I was going to embark on a newsletter?

 

Then I got a call from Craig Long, and he gave me enough personal information to fill 5 newsletters! This was in October of 82, and the only item on the agenda was light educational material, but still no basic structure. Even the name of the club was in limbo, and for the first newsletter, I went with Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club, though John and I agonized over others. Again Craig came to my rescue, when he asked "why don't we keep the name as it is?" so it stuck!!  

 

After the first newsletter was mailed out on January 2, 1983, John and I knew we needed a logo, letterhead and official registration forms with cover letter. Here I pressed my mom into service, making her our club secretary, and brought in my friend Norbert Miller as assistant editor (mostly to correct my atrocious spelling and grammar) and again I turned to Stacy at the Hoover Historical Center, asking if I could go there and take a photo of the British non electric hand pumper, the 'Baby Daisy' circa 1890. Then Stacy told me that her daughter Liz was studying to be a graphic artist, and would love to research patent rights to copy the machine. As it turned out, Liz decided to bypass that and draw an abstract image. By March, we had letterhead, logo and so on.

 

The club limped along till November of 84, I was living in Lombard, Illinois ( Chicago suburb) and working for Kirby, when Mike Pupek came to see me. "How about putting together a meeting of the members?" he asked. "I doubt if people are going to travel cross country to see some old vacuum cleaners" I said. Mikes response was direct, "put the question in the newsletter!" I did, and the result was a fantastic meeting. The only fly in the ointment was my partner Doug, who made it clear I could not have the meeting at our house! so I decided to use my mom's house in Chesterton, Indiana, which was about 50 miles away! Therefore, the first meeting of the V.C.C.C. was held on the first weekend of May, 1985.

 

Not being able to have the meeting at my partner's house was the last straw, Doug and I parted company a few months later when I bought a house in Naperville, and made that the official club headquarters. The smaller bedroom on the second floor was perfect for my collection, and our meeting room, (See photo) but over the years it went through a series of renovations. By 1993, however, the machines overtook the room, and as I didn't use the 3 car garage, it was remolded as a massive display room. But back to the time I bought the house. As this was where all operations took place, I decided that my machines would become the official club museum. 

 

Cut to 1993. When You, Clay, Billy Lipman, Rodger, Dave Watters, Charles Richard, and others showed up, the meeting actually turned into a mini convention. You, Clay, and Charles were the first serious collectors, and the key people who could get us known. However, while I'd started the club, by 94, I was burning out and welcomed the gathering at Hoover. It was good to step back, let the hotel do all the work, and be guests of the Hoover company. The only drawback was the bad press (remember that?) So when you decided to take over in May of 95, I was ready to retire.

 

It was a fun ride, but I'm glad others are manning the helm now.

 

Bob Alex Taber.




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Post# 263917 , Reply# 13   1/18/2014 at 14:51 (3,722 days old) by tig21er (Indiana)        
before B-7

I have heard of the B-6 but never saw one. What I have is a B-9 and it predates the B-7 and was put on by me in a different thread . I will repost the picture when I locate it. I have since changed computer and need to reload pics. I also have a picture of B-3 .


Post# 263992 , Reply# 14   1/18/2014 at 19:07 (3,722 days old) by kevin (Livonia)        

Alex,

You sure have some interesting stories to tell. Thanks for sharing.

rugsucker,

I appreciate the information you gave about the polishers/shampooers and rug washers. I actually do have a rug washer that is cream with turquoise trim, so I'm guessing that's from the Model G era.

tig21er,

Thank you for your response. I look forward to seeing your pics and learning more about the early shampooers. I wonder why the US started with B-7 if Sweden had already manufactured one and had also manufactured a B-9, or why it didn't develop a different identification system than Sweden? That would have been like naming the PN-1 a PN-7.


Post# 264014 , Reply# 15   1/18/2014 at 22:17 (3,722 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I'm very interested in seeing the B3 and B9 polishers! :)


Post# 264110 , Reply# 16   1/19/2014 at 16:29 (3,721 days old) by Kevin (Livonia)        

This is the teal "set" I mentioned in my first post (minus the C-B). Thanks, Compactelectra, for the pic.


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