Nick's Electric Vacuum Cleaner Finds
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caligula
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Hi Nick-P
Actually the Electrolux floor brush is very common. Looking at the rubber trim I place it at the end of the run for the model XXX (December 1937 to October 1952).
This tool was first designed about 1933 by Gustaf E. Lofgren for the model X11 (12) and was standard till the model E replaced it around 1954/55 with the combination rug/floor tool.
As for the wands, they look like the steel wands also common with the X11, XXX, XX, LX/LXI, and E. It wasn't till the later models like the AF, or the G, that aluminum wands were introduced. Certainly by the time the 1205 was being sold.
Most of us have at least the basic Electrolux tools in our collections. They are a dime a dozen!
Actually the Electrolux floor brush is very common. Looking at the rubber trim I place it at the end of the run for the model XXX (December 1937 to October 1952).
This tool was first designed about 1933 by Gustaf E. Lofgren for the model X11 (12) and was standard till the model E replaced it around 1954/55 with the combination rug/floor tool.
As for the wands, they look like the steel wands also common with the X11, XXX, XX, LX/LXI, and E. It wasn't till the later models like the AF, or the G, that aluminum wands were introduced. Certainly by the time the 1205 was being sold.
Most of us have at least the basic Electrolux tools in our collections. They are a dime a dozen!
eurekaprince
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Nice Dial-a-Nap there!
The brandname font on the Dial-a-Nap plate is your key to dating this. Your vac shows the new 1980's font, but I know that at some point the letters were slanted / italicized. Can't remember if the slanted version came first or not...but my guess is mid to late 1980's. In the early 1980's, the Eureka Company was still using their old classic Eureka Williams graphics with the curvey "E" logotype.
The brandname font on the Dial-a-Nap plate is your key to dating this. Your vac shows the new 1980's font, but I know that at some point the letters were slanted / italicized. Can't remember if the slanted version came first or not...but my guess is mid to late 1980's. In the early 1980's, the Eureka Company was still using their old classic Eureka Williams graphics with the curvey "E" logotype.
eurekaprince
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Just researched the timing of the debut of the new Eureka font by Electrolux. It actually began appearing on the first Mighty Mite canisters and the first Express canisters, which is about 1982 and 1983. So I would date this commercial vac to be from about that time. The font quickly became slanted a few years later, maybe by the mid 1980's.
Interesting tid-bit - this DialaNap does not have the usual cooling vents on the hood! These vents appeared in the late 1970's on all the Dial-A-Nap uprights that had Eureka's classic three level "Olympic podium" upright motor hood. Wonder if Eureka stopped making them with vents because of problems with cleaning fluids dropping on the hood and leaking onto the motor below....hmmmmm....
Interesting tid-bit - this DialaNap does not have the usual cooling vents on the hood! These vents appeared in the late 1970's on all the Dial-A-Nap uprights that had Eureka's classic three level "Olympic podium" upright motor hood. Wonder if Eureka stopped making them with vents because of problems with cleaning fluids dropping on the hood and leaking onto the motor below....hmmmmm....
Brian (EurekaPrince),
The Express line of canisters first came out in 1986, as Eureka's answer to the Hoover Dimension series which itself showed up for 1985.
But you are correct that the Mighty Mite compacts did bear the newer (and thus then-current) Eureka typeface (although, the combination nozzle that came in the attachment set still bore the older Eureka-Williams-era logo to about 1985).
~Ben
The Express line of canisters first came out in 1986, as Eureka's answer to the Hoover Dimension series which itself showed up for 1985.
But you are correct that the Mighty Mite compacts did bear the newer (and thus then-current) Eureka typeface (although, the combination nozzle that came in the attachment set still bore the older Eureka-Williams-era logo to about 1985).
~Ben
eurekaprince
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Thanks for that clarification Benjamin....then the window for this Eureka upright must be 1982-1986! 
rugsucker
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Nice vacs,great Eureka.When I was with Elux we serviced any vac,and hoped they would trade for Elux.About 82-84 I saw a few of these for routine servive just as we now see red/blue Sanitaires.I think all would have had a brown cloth shake out bag with yellow lettering and stripes.As with many,once common,now rare.
Nice vacs,great Eureka.When I was with Elux we serviced any vac,and hoped they would trade for Elux.About 82-84 I saw a few of these for routine servive just as we now see red/blue Sanitaires.I think all would have had a brown cloth shake out bag with yellow lettering and stripes.As with many,once common,now rare.
eurekaprince
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The brush roller must be a new replacement Nick. That model is definitely from the mid 1980's.
Brian (EurekaPrince),
I also wanted to clarify that the Eureka 1790 "Vactronic" Power Team canister also used the newer Eureka logo, and that model was put on sale around July 1983, one year after the Mighty Mite.
~Ben
I also wanted to clarify that the Eureka 1790 "Vactronic" Power Team canister also used the newer Eureka logo, and that model was put on sale around July 1983, one year after the Mighty Mite.
~Ben
eurekaprince
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Thank you Ben! It's interesting to see how the graphic transition was made, but things definitely started with that innovative Mighty Mite. When did the Ultra upright debut? It too sported the new lettering....
