Electrolux White Dusting Brush & White Wall Brush

[caligula]

Thank you Charles Richard.

I've had these pages for years, and scanned them last October, but when I got my new computer, somehow they didn't make it to the flash drive. Rather than dig through boxes, I used the copy you sent my for my birthday. I had to fold a bit to get these pages to fit the scanner. (No, I would not cut them to size!), thus a few are very lopsided, but I don't think Kevin will mind!


 


Bob Alex Taber.

 

[tig21er]

Experimental

Electrolux better pics. From my Father's info

 

[tig21er]

Maybe this

is a better shot of your first page. Experimental cleaners at Ekman Center.

 

[tig21er]

Why the

dumpster and not a museum? Look at all the concept cars that have been canned so to speak and never seen again, same thought by manufacturers.At least that is my thought.

 

[caligula]

Hi Kevin.

Here are two more posts from a page I just found.

 

[caligula]

Hi Kevin.

And the last.

 

[caligula]

Hi tig21er.

That is fantastic, thank you for making it a lot clearer. As I'm 63 years old, I'm not computer savvy, and scanning is a real chore for me. If you want to work your magic with the pictures of the prototype tools, you have my full permission. 


 


Alex Taber.  

 

[tig21er]

Electrolux Endurance

reports sorry for the tear. Super J.

 

[tig21er]

Enurance

O-1 and Upright

 

[luxman107]

Love all the history. I really enjoyed reading it all.

 

[super-sweeper]

Hey!

The Kirby was only off by %6 against Electrolux!

 

[crevicetool]

hope you don't mind me spinning this around...

 

[kevin]

Thanks for all the latest posts Alex, Tig21er, and Crevicetool. Lots of good information. Too bad that the old prototypes got tossed.

Maybe someone should pitch the Electrolux Museum idea to Aerus and see if they're interested in beginning a new museum. There may still be a few prototypes in people's basements and garages--you never know.

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I wonder why no one saved whatever came from the Old Greenwich Electrolux factory like when the North Canton Hoover factory closed?</span>

 

[electrolux137]

The plant closed in 1986 when there was no active Vacuum Cleaner Collectors Club. This was also long before the Internet and PCs became standard fixtures in homes and businesses so getting word out to collectors (that no one knew existed!) would have been impossible at best.

I imagine some of the employees may have taken souvenirs with them but trying to track down any of them would also be a huge and difficult task.

What's gone is gone.

 

[caligula]

Hi floor_ o_ matic.

As a historian, that was my biggest problem, getting vacuum cleaner companies to answer my questions. In response to my letter in 1979, Charlie McKee of Electrolux told me in a letter "we don't care about ore past!" So when Electrolux closed the factory, to them, these machines were nothing more than old bits of junk, thus food for a dumpster. It stinks, but that was the way it was back then. And most vacuum cleaner companies, and vacuum cleaner stores saw no value in the 'old stuff.'  

 

[kevin]

For what model would this white dusting brush be? I'm guessing the 1205 J and 1401.

 

[caligula]

Hi Kevin.

Since it's a gold and white box, I'd say Super J. I sold the 1205, and the packaging was the same color as the machine. That looks like the same gold as the J.


 


In the early days, the white dust brush and wall brush had the same metal as the standard tools. Except for the war years when it was dark blue plastic.


 


Alex Taber.


 


 


 


 

 

[kevin]

Thank you, Alex, for the information. I suspected that it might be either a Golden J/1205 J or a Super J/1401 because of the white casing and bumper along with the gold-colored highlights on the box. Thanks also for posting a pic of your LX with its white-haired dusting brush.

 

[kevin]

Model XXX Era White brushes w/boxes: