Another boxed cylinder - Electrolux Dolphin 2230

[turbo500]

Hey guys,

Must be the week of boxed cylinders. Picked up this little beauty tonight. Doesn't seem to have had much use. It's date December 1992.

 

[turbo500]

Pic 1

 

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Pic 2

 

[turbo500]

Tools

 

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Sales sticker

 

[turbo500]

Variable speed and boost

 

[turbo500]

90's Lux's

 

[ultimatevacman]

That's looks great Chris! Nice find

 

[turbo500]

I'm massively impressed with the condition of this one. It looks barely used. Whilst the Miele I got showed some minor signs of use, apart from having some dust in the bag, this has virtually NONE.

 

[turbo500]

Here is from the Argos Autumn-Winter catalogue from 1992

 

[gwillim]

Awesome mate. Im new to this. I messaged you funnily enough on ebay the other day asking what else you had for sale as im just starting out fixing up vacuums. and collecting.Then i found this site. I just won a hoover turbomaster on ebay today so can't wait to get it and recondition it all up. Nice lux too mate.

 

[turbo500]

Hi Will,

Welcome to the site! Glad you found us and sorry I couldn't help out with the Turbopower. Glad you managed to find a Turbomaster though, those are one of, if not THE best carpet cleaners you can find.

Looking forward to getting to know you more . Make sure you get some pics of that TM up when it arrives!

All the best,
Chris

 

[gwillim]

Cool Chris i will do mate. I will put a few up on here.Will put some with it switched on and the allover condition. I love turbomasters/powers..They are great machines am planning on a junior next. Will be great to get to know you all...Looking forward to it

 

[turbo500]

I'm sure you'll have a hoot on here, Will. There is a LOT of knowledge and information and some great people to meet .

Anyway, back to the Dolphin's.

Bit of info:

The Dolphin's first appeared in 1989 alongside the original Lite. The Dolphin replaced the 2000 series as Lux's TOL cylinder. I believe this model was a mid-range model having variable power and the 1200w boost. There was a model above this, I believe, that was dark grey and came with a remote hose.

The Dolphin went through very few style changes, apart from being updated in colour (later models came in royal blue and red).

The Dolphin was superseded in 1996 by the Ingenio/Harmony cleaners.

 

[vintagerepairer]

changes

Though the changes to the Dolphin cleaners was subtle, one such alteration came in the form of the tool storage, which went from a tray on top of the dustbag to a proper storage area inside the lid. It was accessed via a flap in the top of the lid and allowed the user to take out the tools without switching off the cleaner. This was not possible on the previous style.

I am not sure whether this design change was applied to all existing colours available at that time, or to newer models only. However, I do seem to have a memory that the top-range purple clean at least was seen in both variations.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Harmony

This model was available through Great Universal Stores as early as Spring 1994. It is hard to say which model replaced the Dolphin specifically, because in throughout the 1990's Electrolux were selling so very many different models, a good deal of which having the same as features as another. Utterly pointless. I always considered that the two models in the 4X4 range were the ones which replaced the Dolphin as they had the most similarities, such as physical size, features, and so on. But I think also the Harmony was a fair match for the more basic Dolphin cleaners.

 

[anthony]

what

a great find has it been used at all it looks brand new so to speak

 

[gwillim]

I remember my nan having one back in 1989.She got it new from (i think) S&S Electrics..A small shop down in the town from where she lived.It was the dark grey model with speed control on the Handle. I also vaguely Remember Her having a Hoover Turbopower Autoflex at the same time..She got that i think around 1985/1986 when i was just a baby in arms. Unknown where from on that tho

 

[vintagerepairer]

grey

The grey model you speak about was actually purple. The lilac Hoover Turbopower and Turbomaster cleaners from the same time had the identical colour small tool and dusting brush as the Dolphin.