Alex, I get that. My only point was that Electrolux was like a sea beast with many tentacles.
I collect many things other than vacs. Electrolux played a factor in many of them.....a company whose policies/expansion I cannot ignore if I want to understand the landscape back then and even today.
A worthwhile comparison would be The General;General Motors Corporation and all the things they used to be in. GM was said to be the largest corporation in the world at one point and a workforce to prove it.
I think in Europe at least, the Electrolux Group developed into their biggest corporation.
While it's cool to focus on a small part of the beginning of Electrolux and the vacs they made, it's just a small part of the picture. WWII changed factories forever and even afterward. When factories were allowed to stop making war munitions, that's when things got interesting, especially with Electrolux USA.
Kevin
