Electrolux vacuums to become extinct?

[cheesewonton]

You're funny! Your disagreement with presented facts or premises based on available information can be refuted with your opinions and/or friends' limited knowledge rather than news releases, photos, or company statements.

The 2003 news release of the closing of the Bristol factory accurate, or it would have long ago been retracted or redacted.

Where is your proof that TriStars were manufactured - not just assembled - at Bristol? I found no online verification of this.

The other site in West Virginia where the Lux Classic and Lux Legacy tank parts are manufactured must be an outsourced company's plant; just as I suspected all along. AP Science Group LLC's plants are in Bristol, VA and Greenville, TN; along with a distribution plant in Piney Flats, TN according to its webs

I e-mailed Aerus to ask about the March 2003 plant closure article in that newspaper article. When / if I hear back I'll report whatever they tell me. I also asked about their current production.

 

[vacerator]

I have an Oxygen #6997, blue. I just reassembled the hose handle after it separated and the power head switch fell inside. I couldn't get the screw in the bottom front in. An awl went in at an angle. The suction bleeder is lined up and working so I used electrical tape around the lower front to snug it up. I ordered new snap buttons from Amazon that also fits the Rainbow E2, because that fell off because the plastic around the rivet enlarged from wear and fatigue. New hoses are not available and a replacement handle is $50-$60. Not original style. I bought it new in 2002.

I found the Eureka Europa model number is #6998. It's the Electrolux Excellio. JC Penney sold the Excalibur canister by Volta I remember in the catalogue. The side bumper rose up on an angle front to back.

 

[cheesewonton]

I found the Eureka Europa model number is #6998. It's the Electrolux Excellio. JC Penney sold the Excalibur canister by Volta I remember in the catalogue. The side bumper rose up on an angle front to back.

I have one of those Excalibur Megas in dark green. Weirdly made but interesting and nice to use vacuum. I can use it with the longer Swedish Electrolux hose from something like my D795 and use it with a Ze3 power nozzle, which is very quiet. Much nicer to use it that way than with that noisy old Eureka power nozzle. In Europe I think you could buy them with an EBK280 power nozzle.

 

[cheesewonton]

Paul, I have not heard back from Aerus yet and wouldn't expect anything till later next week at least but I did find an article that I think came from the Bristol newspaper by a, cough cough, journalist named Lewis Loflin who wrote:

"By 2003 Electrolux was shuttering its Bristol plant claiming a lack of qualified workers. At one time they employed between 500 to 1000 workers depending who one asks. The Swedish owned company was sending the jobs to Mexico and about the same time shipped 2700 jobs from Greenville, Mich. to Mexico as well. But that wasn't the end of this dirty dealing in Tennessee."

I will post a link to the article but I think you can see the guy is confusing American owned Electrolux LLC with Electrolux AB of Sweden. He does that throughout the article while making wild claims about both. I have my doubts about the veracity of what he wrote.

And this does not surprise me. I spent a good long career after my active duty time as a Naval Aviator working in the weapons world on weapons programs you certainly have heard of like Sidewinder, Maverick and Tomahawk, and some most have never heard of like LRASM ( had the pleasure of working with DARPA on that one ) and JAGM with the Army, along with some really interesting aircraft procurement / modification and depot capitalization projects. But often we would read things written by the notionally professional journalists in the defense press in on-line journals like Defense News, Defense Industry Daily, Naval News, Naval Institute Press and the like and end up scratching our heads wondering where the author of the article got their information from because the article was full of nonsense? The articles had us doing stuff that just wasn't happening, or they had claims about contracts that didn't exist. So I am not inclined to believe everything this guys claims until I hear something back from Aerus. It is clear he has the two Electroluxes mixed up.

https://www.sullivan-county.com/z/electrolux.htm