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Hello,

There is currently a gold B-10 buffer/shampooer listed on Ebay. That got me to thinking about the year it was manufactured, but the Aerus product history is very general--lumping them together in time periods without color or internal changes. Is it true that Canada did not have its own buffer/shampooers until 1977? Does anyone have a timeline for the Electrolux Canada buffer/shampooers?

FYI ... Here are the groupings of models on the Aerus product history chart:

1977-1984: B-20, B-21, B-22, B-22J, B-28, B-50

1984-1992: 2101

1991-2008: Epic & Floor Pro (light sand gray, gray, oyster, blue)

2009-pres: Floor Pro (white)


What about the Swedish buffer/shampooers? I think the B-6 and earlier models were manufactured in Sweden and sold there and in the U. S. and Canada. Is that right?

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As usual Aerus is all wet. They have no clue what the Canadian Electrolux history is. Canada manufactured polishers then shampooers from about 1950 on. The first one was the BA5.

1950-1953 - BA5
1953-1957 - BX5
1957-1966? - BX10 shampooer
1966?-1968 - B20
1968-1973 - B21
1973-1976 - B22
1976-1978 - B23
1978-1982 - B28
1982-1985 - B50
1985-1987 - 2101 (Jadestone)
1987-1989 - 2101 (Taupe) and Special Edition 2101 (wine)

past this all the machines were made in the US
 
Douglas, I posted #5 before I read your reply (#4). Thanks for filling in the missing data. Somehow 1977 seemed pretty late in the game for Electrolux Canada Limited to manufacture its own buffer/shampooers!

Thanks much.

BTW, is there a Canadian vacuum museum, or does the Vacuum Museum in MO include the Canadian models?
 
Kevin it's OK... It's very difficult for even Lux fanatics to keep track of the many versions and models. Electrolux was one of the worst offenders at making small minute changes in the machines that most Joe Q. Public wouldn't notice. There are a myriad of different parts they stuck on the same models...

It's not that Aerus has no clue, they just don't have to care... Electrolux Canada was a mere subsidiary of the U.S. company. While they had some SMALL differences, they were not major enough to warrant a comprehensive historical review. Collector2 has taken it upon himself to "teach" U.S. all the details of Canada's Lux subsidiary. Canadians, like the British, can sometimes have a pretty big chip on their shoulder about their much more powerful big sister to the south... They sometimes seem downright bitter that the U.S. grew so much bigger and more powerful. They are sometimes like a smaller child jumping up and down shouting "look at me!" LOL
 
Canadian Electrolux

Canada had great vacs and the shampooer looked wonderful but when brought to US in 80s it had problems with tank fit & trigger,cordwinder contacts,plastic gears,etc and did not last long here.I have hoped and wondered if the older Can.version worked better than the US experience.
As above Doug is the expert on Canadian vacs (and much more).
 
Actually you are wrong Christopher.

Electrolux Canada was never a subsidiary of Electrolux US. While they were owned by the same parent company they were both operated as totally separate entities. Some developments were shared between the companies just as they both used developments by Electrolux Sweden but they both had very individual identities.

This ended in the late 1980's when a forced buy out of the companies ended up with them near bankruptcy and all of the Canadian manufacturing facilities were closed "to take advantage of the free trade agreement". This ended up only compounding the problem as the US design machines didn't sell well in Canada and sales dropped drastically. It ended up with the US design being dropped in favor of the previous Canadian design.
 
Thank you for your replies, Christopher (#8), Jimmy (#9), and Douglas (#10).

Christopher, I appreciate your acknowledgement of the challenge of keeping all the Electrolux information straight. This forum is a great place to piece together the information. Hopefully, little by little, the information on all cleaners will be complete ... or as complete as can be expected. Regarding Electrolux Canada Limited I have a growing appreciation for it, because it completes the Electrolux story. Without it, we would miss out on lots of great designs, colors, and attachments of machines. I also wish there were more information on the Swedish machines for the same reason.

Jimmy, I'm sure our Canadian friends appreciate your compliment about their branch's great quality of machines. Along with you, I would suspect that the versions brought to the USA had different internal parts of lesser quality.

Douglas, Thank you for the information on the demise of Electrolux Canada Limited. I wonder how Aerus LLC, Canada is doing. Are its machines the same as those in the USA, or have they made some changes to better suit Canadians' tastes? As for the term 'subsidiary' (which I, like Christopher, thought Electrolux Corporation USA and Electrolux Canada Limited were to the Swedish company), also known as a daughter company or sister company, is one in which a parent company owns all or more than half its stock. According to Electrolux Group's history timeline Electrolux Corporation USA was a minority interest of 39%.
I did not find any information on the Group's website regarding Electrolux Canada Limited.
 
One often forgets the rules of International Anti-Americanism... Others are allowed to make thinly veiled insults against Americans and the U.S. but when Americans get their rug up they become "arrogant" or "rude" or whatever. Others are allowed to toot their own horns but Americans who do so are again unworthy. Others are always superior to Americans and the U.S.A. in every way and the U.S. is always inferior but when we again protest we are again the big "meanies." Yesterday a restaurant in Canada celebrated the U.S. hockey team's crying by serving "American Tears Soup." Mean-spirited and highly unsportsmanlike but it's OK to do it with Americans... We're the ONLY people on earth who are BOTH arrogant AND dumb! LOL LOL

It is what it is...
 
Electromatik:

It's very difficult for even Lux fanatics to keep track of the many versions and models. Electrolux was one of the worst offenders at making small minute changes in the machines that most Joe Q. Public wouldn't notice. There are a myriad of different parts they stuck on the same models...


 


Well, this could be said for EVERY brand of vacuum cleaner -- Hoover was guilty of small running changes.  Eureka did it, I'm sure.  Kirby did and still does it.. so what's your point?  That's part of the fun of collecting, noticing and documenting these changes. 


 


I fail to see how your slam against Canadians (and British) helps support anything in this thread.  Doug has been a member of VacuumLand since 2007, and always contributes greatly to this website.  I also fail to see where and how he or anyone else made a thinly veiled insult against Americans or the US.  I appreciate the time that Doug has taken to educate members of this forum about all of the small nuances between US and Canadian machines.  He has an amazing collection which he has more than comprehensively documented over his 6+ years of posting. 
 

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