A friend describes a "mystery vacuum!"

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electrolux137

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I sent the photos of my "new" Sanit-Aire vacuum cleaner to a friend. She replied with the following description of her family's vacuum cleaner when she was a child. Does what she is describing ring a bell at all with any of y'all?? I'm trying to envision what she means by a "black plastic sort of gear" but am drawing a complete blank.

The only thing I can think of is the version of the Electrolux Model XII that was sold in Australia and some other countries that had the "faceted" black bakelite rear end, but that would have been in the mid 1930s and way too old and from the wrong country for what my friend's family had, unless they got it in a second-hand shop or something.


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Charles:

That is very close to our old vacuum cleaner! I think ours, in the 1950s, was shorter and stubbier, and some sort of big black plastic gear-like shape on one end. Picture a fat short blue vacuum cleaner. One end has the hose, and around it is black plastic shaped like a sort of gear. On the other end, chrome trim, but not a smooth cap.

My mother cussed at it something fierce, she hated vacuuming. I like it if I can see the stuff vanish, so I never use an attachment.
 
What about a XIIa or rebuilt 12. The threaded bakalite hose connection is kind of a gear like shape and the other end is chrome but has the lines on the top so its not smooth.

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