Unique Electrolux Model E Hose ... '54 iteration?

[ronni]

I noticed this on eBay and wondered--since it resembled the Model XXX hose with the repeated XXX pattern--if it was an early Model E hose. I've never seen another like it, so I doubt that it would be an aftermarket version as those would be seen more frequently along with others.

What do you think?

 

[kenkart]

Not an early E

1st, the early E had a hammertone blue painted machine end, 2nd, it was braided cloth, not plastic braid, my guess is its a replacement for a 30 or 60.

 

[electrolux137]

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It's a bojack woven-vinyl hose from one of the Vac Supply houses -- e.g., Blakeman, etc., probably from the 1950s-1960s.

 

[dysonman1]

Metropolitan Vacuum, in Suffern, New York, rebuilt most of their Electrolux XXX's and LX's with that hose.

 

[ronni]

Ahhh, shucks. Here I thought I'd stumbled across something rare and valuable. Thanks for all the responses. I like the look even though it isn't original, though.

P. S. I did know about the hammertone blue coupler but thought Model XXX overstock may have been used.

 

[electrolux137]

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None of the XXXs ever had blue hammertone couplers. The -only- Electrolux ever to have a painted coupler was the Model E. Why that was done is a real Catholic School mystery. Plenty of people have ideas and opinions but no one really knows for sure.

One of my oldtimer Electrolux salesman friends started working for Electrolux when the E and E-A were current models. The first machine he sold to anyone, a friend's mother, was the Model E. He remembers the blue coupler but doesn't remember the "whys or why-fors" about it.

When I was a little boy living in Virginia one of our neighbors had a Model E. I was endlessly fascinated by the differences between it and my mom's E-A: The front cover that came all the way off, the woven cloth (instead of vinyl) hose, the blue hose coupler, the "exposed" front caster (no stabilizing feet), the floor tool with no spring connector, the way the cord came out of the back machine, even the black plastic 'thingie' that secured the cord to the motor housing. I -did- say "endlessly fascinated!"

Some of y'all know that I now have in my collection that very Model E, sent to me a couple of years ago by the lady's son who was a childhood friend. I found him on Facebook ... screwed up the courage to ask about his mom's sweeper ... just about fell out when he told me she still had it ... DID fall out when he offered to send it to me!!



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