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3 unusual facts about Goblin Vacuum Cleaners


Goblin Vacuum Cleaners

Popular models included the 1970s "Housemaid" cleaner (featuring an advertising campaign by Jenny Tomasin of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) and the compact "Rio" cleaner of the 1980s.

The managing director was Hubert Cecil Booth who the company claimed had in fact invented the vacuum cleaner in about 1900, and which was subsequently copied in the USA and elsewhere.

After years of sitting empty the site was bought and built on by Esso.



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