AB Electrolux, Lux & Related Company D/AP/S Series Info. 1978-2025

[paul]

2 D725 versions: - German in tangerine & black (YT vid screenshot) ... Australian in beige & brown (Reddit photo)

So far, it's the only model I've seen that had two different color combos—showing that they were made during different styling periods. Seems the features were the same, though. Neither showed the ratings tag, so wattage may be different, too.

 

[cheesewonton]

2 D725 versions: - German in tangerine & black (YT vid screenshot) ... Australian in beige & brown (Reddit photo)

So far, it's the only model I've seen that had two different color combos—showing that they were made during different styling periods. Seems the features were the same, though. Neither showed the ratings tag, so wattage may be different, too.

The pale yellow one does not appear to have the suction level window on the bag door you see on the orange one.

 

[paul]

The pale yellow one does not appear to have the suction level window on the bag door you see on the orange one.

I thought it did, but maybe it's the cover latch release button.

 

[paul]

I thought it did, but maybe it's the cover latch release button. The OZ one also now appears to have a dial on the cover unless it's a decal or other marking.

 

[paul]

Yes Germany had the D720 and a bit later the D725 both in orange brown and the D730 in beige brown
Here the D720 sold in Switzerland

Btw, I guessed the trim color to be tangerine as that's one of the listed colors for the Z305 in the company literature and the early D Series models appear the same to me. Anyway, until you mentioned the body color as brown it looked black to me more like the second photo. Just shows how perception can "color" reality.

So did Switzerland typically have the same models as Sweden?

 

[eluxfan71]

Btw, I guessed the trim color to be tangerine as that's one of the listed colors for the Z305 in the company literature and the early D Series models appear the same to me. Anyway, until you mentioned the body color as brown it looked black to me more like the second photo. Just shows how perception can "color" reality.

So did Switzerland typically have the same models as Sweden?

Yes we had mostly the Swedish appliances. Also some from UK, France and Germany. Depending on the model
Here you see the Z305 and the D720.
But the Z305 was a simpler version

 

[paul]

Until now I had never seen the Swedish Electrolux upright and stick vac. That D720 sure shines.

 

[eluxfan71]

Until now I had never seen the Swedish Electrolux upright and stick vac. That D720 sure shines.

Oh this were shampooers. The whits as accessory for the blower on the vac.
The blue is indipendent appliance. France had the stick vac. I think Z102 (?). We had it under the brand Volta

 

[cheesewonton]

I thought it did, but maybe it's the cover latch release button.

And it is different from my D730 which does have that suction indicator on the bag door. Sometimes no rhyme or reason to Electrolux.

 

[eluxfan71]

And it is different from my D730 which does have that suction indicator on the bag door. Sometimes no rhyme or reason to Electrolux.

It is probably coming do to different factories and timing. Often Sweden was the first to launch it, the others followed later and probably adapted to rhe individual markets

 

[cheesewonton]

It is probably coming do to different factories and timing. Often Sweden was the first to launch it, the others followed later and probably adapted to rhe individual markets

My D730 says Made in Sweden on it.

 

[GooberBrother]

This thread is a continuation of a discussion on thread 44672: https://vacuumland.org/threads/1980s-viking-241-electronic-canister-vacuum.44672/


The discussion piqued my curiosity about the AB Electrolux & Lux brand (and related companies) D/AP/S Series, so I searched for online information and landed on the Lux France page, that lists its past and current models. That led me down the Electrolux rabbit hole and creating the following data tables based on my findings. Updates invited.

Hi Paul, you might like this?

 

[paul]

Hi Paul, you might like this?

Hi GooberBrother.

Welcome to Vacuumland and thank you. I am definitely interested and look forward to watching.

 

[paul]

It is probably coming do to different factories and timing. Often Sweden was the first to launch it, the others followed later and probably adapted to rhe individual markets

That sounds logical. Typically a letter was added to a model ID when that happened either after the Z or after the number. I have yet to see a ratings plate for either one, but I think it was probably the latter in this case because of the D prefix.

 

[paul]

And it is different from my D730 which does have that suction indicator on the bag door. Sometimes no rhyme or reason to Electrolux.

Agreed. Eureka was the same. Those companies had no idea that anyone would notice or even care about such things.

 

[eluxfan71]

That sounds logical. Typically a letter was added to a model ID when that happened either after the Z or after the number. I have yet to see a ratings plate for either one, but I think it was probably the latter in this case because of the D prefix.

Yes right, often it had an S after. Example the Z358/Z360 they added later a S to the grey-beige version. Also the Lux1 they were over the years different versions with additional letters like Lux1R the last one had two letters

 

[paul]

Yes right, often it had an S after. Example the Z358/Z360 they added later a S to the grey-beige version. Also the Lux1 they were over the years different versions with additional letters like Lux1R the last one had two letters

By the way, someone else seemed to indicate that the S was for silver. Anyway, I doubt that it was just a random letter; it must have stood for some descriptor.

 

[paul]

Regarding the color scheme of the 1978 to 1982 D Series models the 1978 Electrolux Group Annual Report referred to the colors as brick and black.

 

[cheesewonton]

Regarding the color scheme of the 1978 to 1982 D Series models the 1978 Electrolux Group Annual Report referred to the colors as brick and black.

Wish they had sold them in the US with the Ze3 power nozzle instead of the Eureka nozzles they were sold with here.