Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

I hear that the HENRY is a great european machine,anyone know about them.......

MOLE

DC18 wrote:
Well, as silly as it looks with the face and all, I heard from more than one person I knew in the UK that they are VERY popular in commercial settings there due to their power and reliability.  Reading Trilobite's post might indicate otherwise about the reliability, however ;-)

I saw somewhere that there is a "Hetty" version of "Henry": a female version in pink, with eyelashes! (Was it in a link to Littlewoods Catalogue?)

Also, there is a special version of the Numatic vacuum cleaner, known as the "Medivac Microfilter". This is all metal construction, and individually tested and certified to HEPA filtration standard. UK consumers can purchase it 'Value Added Tax' free, if suffering from a respiratory allergy. Previously was only a 1000 Watt motor, now a 1200 Watt.

There was scientific paper somewhere, dating from the mid nineties about the efficiency of domestic vacuum cleaners, and how as they aged, filtration efficiency became dreadful (plastic-cased machines warped under the hot exhaust air from the motor, allowing unfiltered air to bypass the filters, etc.).