Electrolux — Schematics

Electrolux is a Swedish home appliance manufacturer founded in 1919 from the merger of Elektromekaniska (1910) and the lamp maker Lux (1901), with charismatic salesman Axel Wenner-Gren as its founding president. The company became synonymous with the canister vacuum: the Lux V of 1921 — gliding along ski-like runners instead of wheels — is one of the founding designs of the entire category, and "Electrolux" was for decades the colloquial word for canister vacuum in much of the English-speaking world.

Electrolux Group went on to own many of the most recognized floor-care brands in North America — Eureka, Sanitaire, Beam, and the Lux luxury line — before divesting most of them in the 2010s (Eureka to Midea in 2016, Sanitaire to Bissell in 2018, Beam to Nuera Air in 2018). The Electrolux name remains in widespread use across decades of canister and upright models, and replacement bags (Style C, R, S, U), HEPA filters, hoses, power nozzles, brush rolls, and wand assemblies for the long Electrolux model history are stocked across the global vacuum aftermarket.