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Twi®® I I Mwic I j Edison Re-Creations || g played on the “New || | Edison ” give you M | nearly twice as much music as Talking Machine Records— | more dancing time $ —more catchy varia- s tions of your favour- g ( ite pieces. Direct | Con ? pi , ri3on I with tna J Living ! Artist ®® 1 In |ffiM reveals no difference I No needles to change—Re- | Creations are practically 8 indestructible — and reft created music, not merely I B reproduction. 1 Demeastratioas daily at ■ft 1 PMONOOBAPHS | 49 CUBA STREET, WELLINGTON.

Ofc of 111 n I i|H [| One daqa Swedish II ft Savoq HoHLondon f and he was greeted by the—then—unusual i: f I f sight of a page-boy wielding an electric / 4 -g-, L U ' | | |'®| j W —l® carpet sweeper. He beckoned the boy: ■ - /j / > - I 11 "What is that machine?” f 47 ‘ I I "Electric carpet-sweeper, Sir. Latest thing ” ’ ’' H I / / f "Takes the dirt from carpets. Eh? Is it 'ftl Z / . 4 '• . . < [J hard to work?” Vj “Not (when you've got the hang of it.” ; /SA/! . '' “Will it clean anything else besides car- to ’ | \ pets?” /< ' *> ' J 1 I “Oh, no, Sir” ' | \ / ? J J V The inquisitive gentleman from Sweden went g , !■ L JlH'lil | away and thought about that cleaner. The |j II j |B I idea came into his mind that an electric B I 1 « cleaner should be much more versatile than W / / , 1 the one he had seen: it should be able to v 11 1 clean more than carpets, to gather all the ~~~~ dirt and the dust about the home. “And iSa. —— V/ j why,” he asked himself, “is there any need —... V/ H - to push around the room the dirt collected? — ctgQ Ly Why not have a bag easier to empty and an electric cleaner more easily handled? And so, many years ago, the idea of the Electrolux VLCX was born. The Swedish gentleman set to work. - *• He. saw at the outset that there was no need to „ , M ~ .. carry anything except a light aluminium nozzle— Head Office for New Zealand, the rest of the machine could stay on the floor. |] J d ]2 | CUSTOMHOUSE QUAY, Wellington. So he designed the long, feather-weight, flexible • metal tube which would reach to any part of the Branch Offices in all Main Towns in the Dominion, room —walls, ceilings, curtains, corners. He saw ’ tha: his cleaner would have a multiplicity of uses Electrolux is an ELEE 1 rvlU cleaner we guarantee so he constructed different sizes in nozzles, he to effect the change-over FREE OF COST when new made brushes, etc. —all of which could be slipped power is available. 43 on to the end of the tube. ' Then he got electrical engineers to build a better, stronger motor —yet one which absorbed a mini- AV; mum of current. “Electrolux has got to be the finest and most up-to-date electric cleaner in the ** world," he said. And not until he had succeeded, was Electrolux offered to the women of the world. May we bring an Electrolux to your home and show you what it can do for you?. A demonstra- r-rfr tion places you under no obligation. Just write or phone us. HtttrDltax 7%e \

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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 208, 29 May 1926, Page 21

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Page 21 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 208, 29 May 1926, Page 21