My Air-Way Model 77 With Wheel-A-Way Cart

[electrolux137]

Here are some photos of my Airway Model 77 with the Wheel-A-Way cart. Mine is different from the one Tom Gasko posted in the Indianapolis Mini-Meet thread.


 


(When you click on a link, it will open in a new window for your convenience!)


 


Air-Way 77 Photo #1


 


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[kenkart]

Hi Charles..

I will try and take a picture of my 77, it has a different cart also.

 

[dysonman1]

Thanks Charles

I knew that the first Air-Way model 77's had virtually the same Wheel-A-Way as the model 66, but in the green color. I like how the machines are sitting at a 90 degree angle. Helps to pull them around. The later Wheel-A-Way for the model 77 tends to tip easily.

Beautiful model 77. While the model 77's GE-built motor is similar to the model 55 and 66, it is not the same and won't interchange. The 77 motor was more powerful and yet was slightly quieter than the 55 and 66.

Very nice machine, gorgeous pictures.

 

[electrolux137]

 


 


I also like how the cart tilts the machine up -- makes it look like it's on a launching pad ready to blast into outer-space!


 


My Model 77 is kinda dinged up; that's the condition it was in when I got it. I did clean and polish it up which helped a good bit in improving its appearance. I won't try to paint it as there would be no way to match the original green hammertone color. It does look better in "real life" than in the photos. Flash photography has a way of exaggerating flaws.


 


I also replaced the hose since the photos above were taken when I first got it. The original woven hose literally just fell part. So I saved the metal ends and green cuffs and attached them to a dark red vintage coiled Kirby hose. It looks really pretty with the green machine and picks up the red accents in the dome -- very Christmassy looking!

Here are some more photos, posted directly instead of with links since there aren't so many. I've also posted a couple of photos of the very rare air-powered floor polisher, which must have been made for Air-Way by Electrolux. The inner works are identical; the only major differences are in the housing and wand-connecting hole.


 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 


 

[this post was last edited: 4/24/2013-15:42]

 

[kenkart]

The one I have..

Has clear wheels and sits more level, Tom is exactly right though, it will tip over, it has big clear plastic wheels.

 

[dysonman1]

Tips over if you look at it.

Those ugly plastic wheels are sitting way too high. I do like that they have a place to store the wands, and that the carrier has bumpers on it.

 

[kenkart]

But I agree!

Its a monstrosity!

 

[rugsucker]

Air-Way & polishers

The 77 looks great with red hose and dolly.I wonder if the polisher could be a Preco as I have seen a Preco labeled polisher possibly before the Preco air turbine power nozzle.There was also a small Compact polisher(50s?)and Singer polisher(60s?).On the AW dolly with clear wheels the AW name should bo cast in the metal.

 

[electrolux137]

I'm =positive= that the Air-Way polisher was made by Electrolux, or whoever made it for Electrolux if it wasn't manufactured in-house. Don't know about that. It's completely different from the Compact, Singer, Filter Queen & Royal polishers but the "innards" are identical to the Electrolux -- the early model. Also, the way the brushes attach are nearly identical, as with the buffing pads with the snap-on strap. The brushes are in the shape of a "four-sided star," similar to the Electrolux's "five-sided star" brushes.

 

[kenkart]

I have an

Air Way polisher in the box, I will try and hunt it up and post some pics.

 

[electrolux137]

Ooooh Hans, I'd LOVE to see that. I only have the polisher, one brush, one lambswool pad and the instruction sheet. I'd love to have a complete set. (Do you need my addresss?! hahahaha)

 

[rugsucker]

Polishers

Thanks for the information.I spend to much time taking apart modern repairs and not enough on vintage.Is the above polisher a saleman award or custom project?Looks great!