Surface Care Appliances & Shoes in Browns & Beiges

[paul]

I prefer products and other things in their original forms and colors, but a repainted beige & brown Electrolux Automatic E currently listed on eBay caught my eye as an attractive exception; if it were mine I would paint the wheels and handle in brown, too. Anyway, it reminded me of brown & beige shoes that retain their appeal among different generations.

The attachment shows some shoes of reference and the Electrolux E-A along with the Electrolux 1363B, Westinghouse Mobile Speed MC-1, Hoover Penncrest A107 & A131, Eureka 1431 and 2061, Filtex 19-A (?), G-E FP-4, Regina 400, Shetland/Lewyt 2394, Singer Roll-A-Magic E-3 and Sunbeam Dual Deluxe 630 in browns and beiges. Add corresponding surface appliance photos, if you like.

 

[huskyvacs]

The mid and late half of the 1970's did have that brown loafers tone going on with it. The early 70s was more of that vomit and mustard yellow coming off the coattails of the midcentury vogue.

I have never seen an Electrolux painted in those colors before but Electrolux did paint rebuilt/restored machines to the current colorway of the brand new vacuums, so possibly that one got a rare Olympia color scheme.

 

[eurekaprince]

Lots of General Electric vacuums in the 1940’s and 1950’s were coloured in brown tones - often a combination of “milk chocolate” bodies and attachments with “dark chocolate” bumpers and highlights. My parents’ first vacuum was a Canadian GE AirFlo cylinder vac in those colours. The tools look like they were made of milk chocolate!!! Manufactured at GE’s factory in Toronto.