Wingnut wrote:
"They were the bomb in the 50's."
We had one just like that many years ago.
I still have one -- at least 30+ years old -- that was my mom's. Still runs great, though the cannister is plastic, not metal.
Back in my days on the New Haven Line, the old Electrolux factory (pretty large, they had their own railroad siding) was located in Old Greenwich, just west of Stamford.
They moved quite a few years' back... to where I didn't know, until I read this thread!