On 23/08/2014 01:02, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
And yet... 20 years ago I bought a Nilfisk that had 900W of motor
power and it suckethed mightily, so mightily I thought the carpet
would come up.

An enormous number of years ago, I did a spell cleaning a hospital. We
had a range of vacuum cleaners. Of those, the Nilfisks were
astonishingly good (I think they were 900W). I detested the BVC/Goblins
because they were so noisy whereas the Nilfisks outperformed them at an
incredibly low noise level. I also rather liked the aluminium pot on
wheels design. The worst that I can remember were various Hoovers.

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Rod