Here are some photos of the Electrolux Deluxe Special that I found at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago. I had posted about it hoping to find a matching brown cord halo and replacement non-cord-winder version of the ivory cord. The cord winder is wonky and I'd rather just replace it with a halo. I will keep the original cord winder, of course.
I had never really gotten a good close look at this model before and it's really quite lovely in a utilitarian way, as most of the Electrolux economy models have been.
It's really in nice condition. All it required was a very casual going-over with some Windex and spray polish. The hose is a mess, as you can see. I'll put together a replacement coiled hose for actual use and will save the original hose for display. Curiously, the attachment that seemed to get the most use was the crevice tool! It's pretty scratched up on the end.
The bag chamber is spotless which is not surprising since apparently the previous owners used genuine Electrolux bags -- eight of them were tucked down into the box with the machine.
There's no instruction manual (would love to have one!), just a sheet showing how to assemble the power nozzle* on one side and an advert for the contemporaneous deluxe model, the Olympia -- so-named in honor of the 1984 Olympics for which Electrolux was a big corporate sponsor and 1984 was the year these two models were introduced. There's also a matching chocolate-brown B8 scrubber-shampooer (and probably an air-powered turbo scrubber but I've never seen one).
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* surely just left behind as a sales enticement since this specimen did not come with a power nozzle -- just the basic cleaning tools and non-electric hose
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I had never really gotten a good close look at this model before and it's really quite lovely in a utilitarian way, as most of the Electrolux economy models have been.
It's really in nice condition. All it required was a very casual going-over with some Windex and spray polish. The hose is a mess, as you can see. I'll put together a replacement coiled hose for actual use and will save the original hose for display. Curiously, the attachment that seemed to get the most use was the crevice tool! It's pretty scratched up on the end.
The bag chamber is spotless which is not surprising since apparently the previous owners used genuine Electrolux bags -- eight of them were tucked down into the box with the machine.
There's no instruction manual (would love to have one!), just a sheet showing how to assemble the power nozzle* on one side and an advert for the contemporaneous deluxe model, the Olympia -- so-named in honor of the 1984 Olympics for which Electrolux was a big corporate sponsor and 1984 was the year these two models were introduced. There's also a matching chocolate-brown B8 scrubber-shampooer (and probably an air-powered turbo scrubber but I've never seen one).
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* surely just left behind as a sales enticement since this specimen did not come with a power nozzle -- just the basic cleaning tools and non-electric hose
[this post was last edited: 9/9/2013-01:05]
