Electrolux Bag Brigade

[kevin]

Hello,

Thought it would be fun to have a thread showing various Electrolux wrappers/bags throughout the years. Please add information such as eras--or even years--of manufacture as well as your own bag pics. I am guessing there have been at least 10 different eras with different patterns and colors of canisters; maybe 5 of uprights.

Here is an early 1960s version (I think there were 18 different print designs--only 3 are pictured) with the trefoil logo on the package:

 

[kevin]

1960s-era bag box (I wonder how many versions of ladies' hairstyles there are in "Touch no...Breathe no...See no... there have been?"):

 

[kevin]

Late 1960s/Early 1970s bag box and bags (seems to be a nice price...I wonder what the price would be with inflation? Back in the day one could probably have gotten a Big Mac, fries, and orange drink with the 75¢ economy pack savings!):

 

[kevin]

Order form (late 1960s/early 1970s):

 

[kevin]

Late 1960s/Early 1970s bag box (cool logo--the triangle for the bar of the E makes me think that the logos with three parts marked each main branch of the old Electrolux, including the parent company in Sweden and its subsidiaries in America and Canada; consider the circle with three stems in the classic logo designed in the late 1930s and the trefoil of the 1960s packaging logo--and the triangle of the logo ... coincidentally the capital E with its two arms (long horizontal segments) and bar (short horizontal stem) could also represent the "big 3":

 

[kevin]

Early to Mid-1970s bag package and bags:

 

[kevin]

Mid- to late 1970s package and bag:

 

[kevin]

Late 1970s/Early 1980s package (front):

 

[kevin]

Late 1970s/Early 1980s package (back):

 

[kevin]

Notice the three-segmented cyclonic action symbols on the items in #s 6 and 7!

 

[kevin]

Mid- to Late 1980s box and bags (style c):

 

[kevin]

Mid- to Late 1980s box and bags (style u):

 

[kevin]

Cloth bag--top (1952 - ?):

 

[kevin]

Cloth bag--bottom (1952 - ?):

 

[kevin]

Late 1940s/Early 1950s Model XXX dust bag box:

 

[kevin]

Late 1940s/Early 1950s Model XXX dust bag and box (Hmmmm ... 1962 logo with "boat-shaped" border (first used on Rug Washers) but 1950s-era box ... 1960s then?):

 

[rugsucker]

Electrolux bags (or wrappers)

The first paper bag box was blue/yellow to match the Mo 60.The bag (or wrapper as first were called) had blue cardboard end with Elux 'E' that could be seen through opening at top of vac door.
Box in reply 1 may be closer to late 50s.For part of the 50s the salesman was not paid commision on bag delivery and sales.But I have been told they would still deliver bags as they got many referrals and more vac sales from satisfied Elux customers.
Cloth bags were considered only for demo as paper bag was better and cleaner.Some customers would insist on getting cloth bag and at least the Special Mo S had cloth bag with message to see & use paper.There was also a round cloth MoXXX bag with message to see the new automatic.
P.S.-Recently saw pics of an early 70s Mcdonalds.The Big Mac was 65 cents!

 

[electrolux137]

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Electrolux's first disposable bags were introduced with the Model LX and were called wrappers. They were gray with blue cardboard tops and silver lettering on the tops. I have a box of them but they're still in storage so I can't get a photo of them, but you can kinda see them in the photo below of the Model E which used the same bag. This style bag was also sold with the Model E-Automatic.

The wrappers originally were assembled one at a time by a crew of "bag ladies." There's a photo in one of the promotional booklets showing their new bag-assembly machinery.


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The yellow bags with the blue-printed advertising on the tops were first introduced with the Model F and continued through the turquoise G.

There were about 30 different versions of the advertising. Since the bags came 18 to a pack, users wouldn't get all the different advertisements with one purchase. I have two complete sets of them plus some spares. One of these days I want to take photos of all of them. There was also a bag from that series printed with "For Single-Purchase Sale" or something like that -- a specially imprinted bag sold one at a time.

Somewhere along the way with the turquoise G, Electrolux discontinued the bags with advertising and went with the same graphic design on all the tops.

 

[caligula]

Thanks Charles Richard.

I have one of the boxes you show here, but it's falling apart. Actually it's in sections that I'd taped together,  (with clear tape)  but it fell apart. How do I reconstruct the box? Yes, all lettering is intact. And advice?