A homage to Dame Penelope Keith or as we remember her Margo Leadbetter from the TV series The Good Life . It follows Tom & Barbara Good who abandon conventional life to live self sufficiently in suburban Surbiton , Surrey , UK.
They live next door to Margo & Jerry Leadbetter a snobbish banker set couple. Margo has a domestic cleaner help called Mrs Pearson who in one episode goes on holiday leaving Margo to use her own Electrolux Z90 vacuum Cleaner made up the road in Luton, England , UK
While Margo uses the Electrolux Cleaner it starts to omit a high pitched whistle. Margo assumes its broken and sticks it in a shopping trolley wheeling it around to Tom & Barbara`s to see if they can FIX it. Tom attempts to take it apart while Barbara has a wrye smile on here face as she knows what the problem is . This New Fangled Electrolux Z90 has a DeLuxe feature - It Whistles When The Bag Is Full much to Margo`s distain when everyone
laughs at her for not knowing !!
Celebrating the 70th birthday of Hoover UK`s first washing machine. It officially rolled off the production line on the 1st March 1948, at the Hoover factory in Merthyr Tidfyl, South Wales. Very fitting as it was St Davids Day, the patron saint of Wales. "Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus" This compact wringer washing machine was designed for the British kitchen and would fit under the draining board, a great spacesaver with our compact kitchens. It had a simplistic design, an aluminium tub was bolted to the base and sides, it had the famous "Hoover Pulsator" a spinning disc set in the side of the tub and driven by a belt from a motor underneath. It had no switch you plugged it into your socket on the wall and switched on. The aluminium worktop was also used as a cover to prevent water from splashing over the floor. The Hoover Pulsator revolved at 560 rpm and rolled the clothes throughout the water so getting them clean. It didn't even have ...
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