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Thread Number: 33869
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Electrolux Shipping Tragedy |
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| Post# 367692 3/1/2017 at 07:37 (2,606 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Does anyone have a good reference or link to a detailed description of what happened when that famous cross-Atlantic shipment of Electrolux vacuums was lost at sea?
I have always wondered about this tragedy: when, why, what and if any sailors were rescued from the accident. I keep on reading that the loss of this shipment caused the company to set up manufacturing in the USA in the 1930's, but no one ever talks about the details....especially if there was any loss of life because of the incident. Kind of sad to think that there is an undersea graveyard of 100's of vintage Electrolux cleaners out there somewhere.... | ||
| Post# 367696 , Reply# 2 3/1/2017 at 10:43 (2,606 days old) by s31463221 (Frenchburg, KY) | ||
Shipwreck
I too have found very little to go on. Jimmy, you're definitely in the ballpark. Among the information I could find, was an article Tom Gasko wrote back in 2010 where he mentions the shipwreck happening somewhere around 1932. I found a website listing all of the shipwrecks that happened in 1932, but not knowing the name of the ship, it's like looking for a lost ball in high weeds. The site, of course, doesn't list the manifest of the ships, and by searching for Sweden, there were close to 20 shipwrecks involving Swedish cargo ships......
Jimmy, could you imagine what a dive to THAT dump site would look like!? | ||
| Post# 367699 , Reply# 3 3/1/2017 at 14:38 (2,606 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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1st USA made Electrolux The move to Cleveland may have been described as a White sewing machine factory that then or later had a connection with Apex.Much of my Elux information is'in a box somewhere'. | ||
| Post# 367703 , Reply# 4 3/1/2017 at 15:46 (2,606 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Post# 367704 , Reply# 5 3/1/2017 at 16:25 (2,606 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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 ~ "By 1930, machines were still being imported to the US from Sweden, but company executives felt the time had come to build a factory in America so they could end the overseas shipment of cleaners. This belief was affirmed when a ship's cargo was lost at sea with a shipment of a thousand Electroluxes aboard."
From Electrolux Factory News of June 1963, a special issue commemorating thirty years of manufacturing at the (now closed) Old Greenwich, Connecticut factory. That's all the story says, and I've never come across any other references to the tragedy.
(I expanded, updated, and corrected the story with facts and information gleaned from other Electrolux sources, including web sites for Electrolux USA, Elektrolux-Sweden, and Lux-Germany. It appears on my web site at the link below.) CLICK HERE TO GO TO electrolux137's LINK | ||
| Post# 367706 , Reply# 6 3/1/2017 at 17:00 (2,606 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 367768 , Reply# 7 3/3/2017 at 09:18 (2,604 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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