Electrolux XXX/LX Polisher Ephemera

[aeoliandave]

Neat paper pamphlets found in the bottom of a hammertone blue polisher with both pairs of brush & lambswool buffer pads with felt back pad. Looks as tho only the black set of brushes was ever used, the box is in perfect shape and the polisher body has a lovely clear shiny patina of floor wax on it, too.

I particularly luv the grand piano in her middle class home but I sure hope she keeps her eye on the polisher instead of the camera after she's finished blissfully shining up that table and decides to glaze the piano lid.

 

[aeoliandave]

Note the XXX with no cordwinder...and the publish date on the previous picture. My gawd, those floors are shiny!

 

[aeoliandave]

Floor Care Commandments

"Don't spoil good floors by painting them"

 

[aeoliandave]

I luvs this paper documentation.

 

[petek]

So shiny you can almost see everything LOL

 

[charles~richard]

I am sure most people know

that the "ELECTROLUX AIR-POWERED FLOOR POLISHER AND SCRUBBER" is to me the most beloved and nostalgia-laden of ALL artifacts in my collection.

What a delight to see the instruction flyer posted here!

Note that there was also a version of this flyer that depicts the Model LX. Let me see if I have one somewhere on my hard drive...

 

[charles~richard]

ELECTROLUX POLISHER VARIATIONS

Here are the various color-style variations I have. First is the earliest and rarest --- polished aluminum casing, surely the very first version. I have only seen one of these, and I have it!

 

[charles~richard]

 

[charles~richard]

XXX - Gray hammertone casing with gray rubber trim. Note early-style carton.

 

[charles~richard]

Later XXX - same color scheme but note new and more durable carton.

 

[charles~richard]

LX - Dark-blue hammertone casing with dark-turquoise rubber trim.

 

[charles~richard]

 

[charles~richard]

E - AE. Hammertone blue casing, medium gray rubber trim.

 

[charles~richard]

 

[charles~richard]

Swedish. Lacquered steel-gray hammertone casing and gray rubber trim. Note very beautiful logo!

 

[charles~richard]

Swedish carton.

 

[charles~richard]

UK - bluish-gray hammertone casing, "perriwinkle blue" rubber trim; same beautiful logo as Swedish but blue background instead of silver.

 

[charles~richard]

 

[aeoliandave]

Lordy, Charles! These are so beautiful and in a formation like that all...Mother Chrome and her loyal Worker Pods ready to do battle with waxy buildup across the nation.

I had the E/AE hammertone blue with dark turquoise rubber and then this earlier (?) one with gray rubber came along last week from my Vac Guy in London. This is Canada after all and I don't expect these are all that plentiful up here. What I find interesting is that on the bottom of the casting it says 'patent pending' along with the usual patent number D-158743.

The carton flaps cleverly turn into carrying handles and I'll get some pics up soon.

Btw, I know all this stuff is already well known but having scoured all the archives, etc, looking for pictures and info...if I haven't found it I'm threading it for our amusement. There's always more to discover about our beloved vacs and my curiosity is insatiable.

Dave