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The 502 in green, we also got this in brown which I had many years ago

So I found this thread while doing some research and thought I would share some South African 500 series machines. we did get the first 500 in grey but I have yet to find one, here are some brochures from Electrocol, the agents for Electrolux before it became Electrolux owned again in 1996

lol thought they were talking about the Merc until I scrolle Madman I Miss that Dam car so much, was such a awesome ride

I got this a while back but never got a chance to post it. Tedelex was/is a South African company that made TV's back in the day, they also had a fairly big appliance division and as I am finding out a fairly extensive Floor care range from Domestic to industrial This one a re branded Hoover (...

Yea I accidentally buy allot of vacuums. Sure fire way of knowing I am about to buy another is when I say Right No more I have enough.. Nice machine

One of my Dream finds, I dont think the compact was ever sold here in South Africa But you never know, I am always amazed at what pops up every now and then. If not I will have to import one from the USA

Carpet Powder Keeping guys like me in Business for ever, dry carpet cleaning powder is even better as people vacuum that stuff up by the ton

My wife got this beautiful 400slc Electrolux Carpet Shampooer for me the other day. it seems to be a 1985 model, They were made right here in Cape Town South Africa, at Electrolux's manufacturing plant in Paarden Island. I am not sure what the tie up was with the various similar machines sold...

So the other day I saw this red Hoover windtunnel on FB market place for sale. quick check and it was a USA 110volt model. As it was used ( slighlty ) it was either brought over when a household moved here or it was a amazon purchase not correctly checked and was used on a transformer untill...

As a Huge fan of upright vacuums I must admit that their is nothing I am really looking forward to. Firstly Here in South Africa our market is cylinder ( canister ) and cordless based. We get very few uprights, outside sebo, kirby and vorwerk their are 2 on our market. Dyson is now completly...

if major changes or upgrades were made year-to-year? Not every year but atleast a decent upgrade every 5 years and a new design every 10. Salesman will always sell but they are hitting a new problem now. The machine hasn't really changed since 1991 . My mate told me of two situations that...

Panasonic out of the vacuum business ? Maybee in the USA but in he rest of the world they are still very much in the vacuum business. I have 3 or 4 new entry level bagless ones clogged to hell in my workshop for repair. they actually make some pretty neat machines still

If I ever do visit the USA I would love to come and see it and meet you in person. Gareth

I was about to say the floor tool looks very Panasonic, although Sanyo uses a almost identical one

Like you say,If they do have engineering department what do they do all this time. prehaps their is just one lonely engineer their with his Cad system trying to finish the new kirby for the past 20 years, almost his working lifes work. It doesn't take 12 years to change the colour of a bag...

I think Kirbys R&D centre must be a incredibly boring or at least very frustrating place to work We know the prototypes exist, their have been enough patents and enough people ( insiders like the guy that worked for UL ) who saw actual working models. Just before the launch of the sentria II...

Its very cool but the hose is seriously short.

The filter cleaning system that shakes off dirt every time the cord is unwound or rewound. Its driven off a gear off the cord winder. It is fairly comon on many Japanese cylinder vacuums across several different brands

All the tools were still their too

Open it up and its so cool inside