"John" wrote in message
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Elderly relative was complaining about Hoovering being tiring. I
watched her doing it and saw she was "scrubbing" quite hard and fast with
it. I suggested she should let the revolving suction, brushes and beaters
do the work and guide it slowly around the room - single pass.
She looked at me in total disbelief!

lol, was she by any chance a maid in a big house at the turn of the
centuary???
i saw a film type thing ages ago showing the hoover thing they used back
then, one person to work the foot operated bellows to produce the suction,
and the other to scrub the floor with the lance... as no turbo brushes back
then, so the fixed brushes had to manually scrub the dirt out of the
carpet/floor to be sucked up.