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[Andy B]

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HP sauce is another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that transfer to Holland.
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I think that was Heinz's tomato ketchup going from Wigan Kitt Green to Holland. Those jobs weren't lost though and the workers just moved elsewhere within the factory ..... where I now work!     

[feeutfo]

I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another

she tried that idea but with a vax, useless rather thing. too heavy even for me, and stop pushing it around or use the atachments and the belt burns out in 5 secs flat, although no idea re elrctrolux personally the Mrs says people at work say it cant pull the skin off a pudding compared to a dyson.


Seems basic to me, if dyson stops sucking its bunged up, her long hair usually, and the transparent parts help to locate the bungage/filter/full up container etc, although the inards look mucky after a while. They are over priced but ime they do work, and parts are available ie if it "falls" down the stairs for instance.

[Marks DTM Calib]

I bought a vaccum once

[MickAP]

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HP sauce is another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that transfer to Holland.
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I think that was Heinz's tomato ketchup going from Wigan Kitt Green to Holland. Those jobs weren't lost though and the workers just moved elsewhere within the factory ..... where I now work!     

The factory where it was produced in Aston, Birmingham closed down because the production was moved to Holland. Job losses resulted, apparently.

Mick

[Pitchfork]

I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another

You're not a WEEE man then?

[Andy B]

I bought a vaccum once

Better off with a vacuum though ................ 

[Tony H]

This thread "sucks" unlike a Dyson

[Vamps]

Not this one....

[TheBoy]

Dyson was that the company that took all of it's production overseas, closed the operation in the UK, made em redundant
Stuff them
We have an Oreck, only thing we have had to replace  in ten years has been the brush bar and about 3 belts.

Mick 

DYSON is in fact the company that had £4m in grants off the Welsh Assembly and as soon as his company took of he closed the factory made 300 people redundant with very little severance wages and moved the entire shaboom to Poland, which is exactly what Cadbury are doing right now with the old Fry's factory, but cannot understand why Poland, all peoples of working age from Poland are over here. so how they goona get staff is beyond me, prehaps with a little luck all the poles here will move back and we can all get a decent job.

Errr, its not as cut and dry as all that.  They wanted to expand their manufacturing in Wiltshire, but local do-gooders blocked it. Then were up in arms when it was announced production was shifting overseas (far east I thought?).  The stupid 'not in my back yard' do-gooders can't have it both ways. Idiots.

As it happens, Dyson employ more people in Wiltshire now (admin, r&d, etc) than before they moved production away, as they can fit more people into old site

[TheBoy]

I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another

You're not a WEEE man then?

Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it  . I now have an 18m² area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.

Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.

[TheBoy]

I had many hoovers over the years, but then when Dyson came along I found it was the end of having useless machines.

Never looked back and have remained using Dyson, with little maintenance involved.  Great machines!!

I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.


Oh, and my old vac won the fight with the vegetable rack, unlike the dyson, though that may count as abuse....

[Martin_1962]

I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another

You're not a WEEE man then?

Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it  . I now have an 18m² area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.

Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.

Ebay time then

[TheBoy]

I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another

You're not a WEEE man then?

Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it  . I now have an 18m² area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.

Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.

Ebay time then

Err, thats stealing. Not my stuff to sell.

I have raided some ram for my desktop (works one) though 

[Andy B]

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I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.
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You must be using it wrong!     Our's has been fine for the last 3 or 4 yrs.     
I agree that they're not the most substantial of machine though.

[TheBoy]

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I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.
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You must be using it wrong!     Our's has been fine for the last 3 or 4 yrs.     
I agree that they're not the most substantial of machine though.

ours it probably about 12yrs old.  The replacement parts (even genuine) are poor