“Model V is launched. It weighs 5 kg and is regarded as a big step towards creating an effective and easy-to-use vacuum cleaner for ordinary homes. Pay extra close attention to the runners – an invention by Wenner-Gren himself. They were in use on Electrolux machines well into the 1960s.

Electrolux sets up sales subsidiaries in Belgium, Germany, England and Finland.”

Swedish engineering students Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm present a sensational invention – a machine that produces cold through heat using a new and brilliant application of the absorption process. The machine can be driven by electricity, gas or kerosene.

“Electrolux purchases Arctic and launches the first absorption refrigerator, the ”D-fridge I” on the world market. For many people this “wonderful box” solves the problem of storing fresh food at home.”

Floor polishers become part of the product range. Electrolux builds vacuum cleaner plants in Luton, England and Courbevoie, France. These plants are eventually equipped for the production of refrigerators.