P.S.: Way back in the day, I used to have a running disagreement with an old-time Electrolux salesman that some of the early Electrolux Model Es had hammertone-blue wands.
I knew that the machine-end couplers of the early E hoses were painted hammertone (I have speculated, with no real basis other than speculation) that the reason may have been to help Electrolux salesmen keep from mixing the E hoses up with the LX hoses, which were the same design and color but about a foot longer.
Anyway, I could swear that I remembered seeing a Model E when I was a kid that had hammertone blue wands. But the Electrolux oldtimer insisted I had been sniffing hammertone paint fumes and was hallucinating!
Well, looking through some old vac supply catalogs one day a few years ago, I found my answer -- at least one of the "Electrolux Refurbishment" outfits (name withheld to protect the guilty) used to paint Lux wands hammertone blue. Along with XXX front and rear covers and trim and LX trim. Some of that company's refurbishment jobs looked like they just dunked the whole machine, intact, into a vat of hammertone paint! They even painted over the leatherette sometimes! Even painted the chrome cord halos!
You wanna talk about tack-eeeee!
