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I have a spare Black and Decker to trade lol - Picked it up for another collector two years ago and havent heard from him since. Fairbanks Morse, Firestone and several other well known farm dealers had full lines of household goods as well. The idea was, when the farmer sold his crop and came...

Hi everyone and thank you for the kind words. I try to provide what ever information I can. Re the Regina style GE machines - that goes into the history of Switson Industries in Canada. Switson Industries, of Welland, Ontario, was the largest manufacturer of vacuum cleaners in Canada from the...

To be quite honest, getting rid of door to door salesmen has been very detrimental to both the industry and the consumer. Yes there always were some very shady salesmen. But there were also some very good ones. By having the salesman show the vacuum in the customers home the customer was...

I have the Volta U155 which is another version (note it has the power nozzle connection)

This is the flyleaf that came with the above manual for the Z54

I love the colour combination on the 360

Re: European machines sold in Canada - Electrolux AB also made Modern Vac for the Modern Vac store in Edmonton for quite a few years. This is one of the three models they went through (EC740B)

I have the Volta U241 in my collection as well

I would like to find one of the wall outlets for my Tuec. (I want to put a fake piece of wall behind the machine with it on it for display)

Hi - Where are you located? I'm in Moose Jaw, Sk and have a large collection. I was also service manager for Electrolux for 10 years if you need info. Doug

Bonjour xaxa17. Je viens de Moose Jaw, Sk, Canada. (Pardonnez mon français, il n'est pas bon) J'ai deux modèles Vorwerk 115 dans ma collection ainsi que de nombreux Electrolux européens ( www.smithcollection.altervista.org

I saved these pictures from an Ebay sale. This would be the Rebuilt Gold machine mentioned as the Economy Rebuilt model above

Another one from a 178 Aldens Catalogue - you can see the painted end and name plate in this one.

From the 1979 Aldens Catalogue. These are the parts they sold with the rebuilt machines. The LX is the Delux machine referred to in the write up.

Yep - Plus, because they put cheap plastic new attachments with the machines, they polished and sold the rug nozzles, floor nozzles and small nozzles separately to shops as spare parts. I can remember the floor nozzles still being listed as available in the 1990s.