Understandable on the hose, they are becoming rare but I think I can pay full price and order one from Aerus as an option, just not crazy about the current black color so might wait until whatever color is next if I don’t find one sooner on eBay. I should have looked years ago when I first acquired the G in 2007...there were more used ones to be had on eBay then as I remember occasionally seeing one.
Nice power nozzle and wands. Those telescopic wands are delicate though. No wonder they were only out a short time. I have a PN-1 with the matching neck with the slot locking mechanism rather than the friction clamp fit. It may have been my Aunt’s as she gave me hers when we bought and brought her a new L shaped PN in the 80s and I know hers had that neck. She lived in rural Ohio and our local Electrolux guy was closing his store in NJ and selling his supply discounted so we got her a hose and new power nozzle for her 1205 since we were heading to Ohio for our annual visit to her in the next few weeks via car. I had never seen the slot locking mechanism much until then and it was reintroduced in the mid 80s I think late Silverado era on the upper PN wands and I do like it and Aerus still uses it today on the Lux Classic. But interestingly enough the bare floor tool uses the friction clamp lock still...probably because the plastic wands for it don’t have the locking slot. Before the mid 80s I always wondered what those two slots on Moms Electrolux hose handle were for. Her model L was all friction clamp parts and the electric hose handle was curved metal but with the slots. I think she bought hers in 1973. That would put me at age 4 which sounds about right. I still remember the day my Mother bought her L, I was told to not be a pest and that I had to be good and sit on the stairs and watch while the man came out. Was the same guy we bought the parts from for my Aunt in the mid 80s when he closed his store.
It is funny to see how different people use the same vacuum. My aunt never used the flip over rug and floor tool for floors, she used the round dusting brush for the floors and it took her a while to vacuum them. She used the rug and floor tool for her furniture and drapes instead on the end of the hose handle only. She also never had accessory wands with her 1205 either which I thought was odd but I got her a set from something we acquired along the way but she never really got into using them. We always used the power nozzle with its wand and left that assembled and the combination rug and floor tool assembled to the two aluminum wands. This way you never had to bother bending down to change heads. Perhaps most Electrolux salesman were instructed to set buyers up this way as it would have been a selling feature that you don’t have to bend down to change floor attachments. I dint know...I still use my Electrolux this way myself as it just seems logical. I rarely if ever take the power nozzle off the end of its electric wand set, unless I have stairs to do and dove a sidekick available.
I do wish I could find a nice L like that myself someday and perhaps in the last rendition Gold. For now My nicest old machines are my Grandmothers XXX with no dents or scratches and a complete set of the original attachments including the sprayer. A model G with one small ding, a Marquise with virtually no scrapes or dents even on the bottom! And an Aerus Lux Classic from mid 2000s with virtually no scuffs and virtually no use on the PN, flip over rug and floor tool, or sidekick, crevice tool and combination dusting brush appear to have rarely been used ...only the single sided floor tool appears to have been the primarily used tool and for a machine that is 10 to 15 years old this is quite good. The wands do have some odd wear on them, the back side bottom edges appear to have been dragged as if they were used a lot with no attachment to clean carpet along the wall. As if for edge cleaning. It has literally worn down the plastic.
It looks awesome 
