european cleaners

[edgar]

a part of my collection

 

[ronni]

Very impressive! Do you have a favorite brand and/or a favorite cleaner? Do you collect polishers/shampooers or extractors?

 

[edgar]

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Yes Miele and Philips of the eighties are my favorite. The Bosch in the picture is special to me to.

 

[marks_here]

I love the vast array of colours, very beautiful collection Edgar. Love the Vorwerk in the corner!

 

[edgar]

colors

What can i say Mark, I just love bright colors ;-)

 

[DesertTortoise]

Ah, another canister syndrome sufferer, but your condition is indeed profound. That is quite a collection and I'm sure represents many hundreds of hours of preparing each of those vacuums.

The plastics on the Bosch remind me strongly of the plastics in similar vintage Audis and BMW cars.

What are the red dart shaped vac standing on it's tail towards the left of the photo and the little butterscotch colored canister on the floor towards the right with it's butt towards the camera?

 

[DesertTortoise]

Also on the floor on the right the next vac over from the butterscotch canister is orange and has what appears to be the cord emerging from the center of the right rear wheel. Is that the case?

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Hi,

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Hi Edgar, I love looking at you collection when you post pictures. All look well cared for.

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<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">You have a nice looking house by the way.</span>


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<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">James

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[eurekaprince]

Edgar...."merci" for sharing these photos!

Is the red cylinder vac on the left a Sanyo bagless "Dust Cassette" vac? Looks very Japanese to me. Maybe it's from Hitachi?

 

[eurekaprince]

DT: a cord exiting from the center of a wheel is a definite hallmark of Sweden's Electrolux company. Electrolux USA had a few canisters featuring that placement of cord reel as well.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

I see many familiar vacs there, mostly Miele and Electrolux AB. I had that Blue Miele in the second picture when I lived in Germany, Belgium and France many, many years ago. I received it as a gift from the MD's wife when she found out I was sweeping the floors with a broom and dustpan... it was very kind of her as I was young and struggling to begin a career far away from home.

 

[DesertTortoise]

That was my first thought too Eurekaprince, but that thing is a lot boxier than I associate with Electrolux vacuums, plus the shape of the grill you can see on top of the vacs body. It's all very un-Electrolux. And that color! Right out of the Gerbers baby food pallet. Did Electrolux make machines like that?

 

[eurekaprince]

Just Google images for Electrolux AB vacuums and you'll see how interesting the designs were compared to Electrolux USA. The American company - a division of Consolidated Foods - was working with entirely different competition (much of it provided by Kenmore) filled with power nozzle canisters. I think because America gave us a Hoover that deep cleaned wall-to-wall broadloom for the large houses of American suburbia, we focused on cleaning carpets. The cylinder vacuum was invented by the Swedes and so the European market was focused on lightweight canisters that were effective in small flats with lots of flooring and lightweight area rugs.

The evolution of vacuum design was very different on each side of the Atlantic. As you know, I am not a fan of combination vacuums. So it's nice to have a Hoover upright and a Miele canister in my closet reflecting two very different cleaning challenges! . It's a throw-back to the days when Hoover and Eureka and GE and Singer offered two-vac cleaning "systems" for the home - the 1940's and 1950's.

I tried power-nozzle canisters and on-board tool uprights for a few years, and I came to the personal conclusion that these combo vacs are too bulky and complicated. But that's just me!!!!

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

D-T,


 


That vacuum is the classic Electrolux AB vacuum shape. US and Canadian Electrolux vacuums have had nothing in common design wise with Electrolux AB since the model XI. There is an entire world of Electrolux vacuums out there that look like those ones...

 

[edgar]

desertortoise

The red one is a national, the butterscotch one is a philips. the entire electrolux series from that age had the cord coming from the rear wheel.

 

[edgar]

electrolux

some of the swedish electroluxes

 

[suckolux]

Would just love to point out its great to see machines from other places! Very interesting, thanks for sharing great pics!

 

[DesertTortoise]

Isn't or wasn't National a subsidiary of Matsushita/Panasonic? My recollection is that Matsushita's consumer lines were called National everywhere but the US where that name was already owned by another firm.

 

[edgar]

national panasonic

I am not sure if it was a subsidiary for panasonic. What i do know is, that mid eighties national became panasonic in Europe.