Vacuum Demos

[vacu-finder]

Remember the old days of the Vacuum sales person knocking at the door..?
Lux, Kirby, Rainbow etc........they came in all different colors and flavors.
Some manufacurters made slight changes every year and sometimes a lot of bells and whistles were added.

Here is a good example of a true Vacuum demo showed to me.
A lady is showing me the new Rainbow, she did the Steel ball test which My Lux89 passed as well. She just sloughed it off.
She then did the white rag trick behind the exhaust to show the fine dirt exiting the Machine.
The Rainbow showed no color on the rag. Delightfully I remarked to her that My Lux89 would show no dirt at all. She shook her head back and forth and totally denied it and was very adamant about it. That old lux will get that rag dirty in no time flat.
I Flatly refused her comment and said I would prove it. She laughed..!
I ran the lux 3 times longer with the white rag.........Guess what..?..........NO DIRT.
And that I told here was from a machine that was 15 years old..
And you want me to buy a Rainbow for $1200.00.....!!!!! not likely

 

[aeoliandave]

Great story Dean but must have been a typo - the 1967 Electrolux 89 is 45 years old. Good for it...and you.


 


Dave

 

[countryguy]

Dave,

Maybe the story occurred when the '89 was 15 years old .... not currently.

Gary

 

[vacu-finder]

Thanks Dave... At any rate the Demo was in 1984.. so that would make the '89 how old again..?

 

[aeoliandave]

Green Canadian Electrolux Models 87 and 89 were introduced in late 1967.


In 1973 the Factory was re-tooled and the plastic bodied AP100 (and subsequent AP Series) went into production.


 


For all Canadian-made Electroluxes - up to the 2100 when production moved to the USA - you can determine the manufacture date from the Serial Number.


For example, if it is an 89 - made from 1967 to 1973 - and the first number of the SN is 1, then the machine was made in 1971.


Similarly, if the first number is 9 it indicates 1969.


 


Naturally one could purchase a new in box old stock 89 well into the 1970s as warehouse and dealership inventory was depleted.


In 1984 an 89 was at least 11 years old.


 


Dave