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Originally Posted by ColinTheAmpMan1
My mother had a Hoover Constellation and loved it. If I remember correctly, the air exhaust at the bottom was able to connect the flexible hose, and so could use the almost-useless accessories such as insecticide- and paint-sprayers. The cleaner had to be shoved over on to its side to do this.
If I remember correctly, the Constellation might have just preceded the introduction of the commercial hovercraft and my mother always referred to Christopher Cockerell's device as a "Hoovercraft", bless her (She's been dead a long time).
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Hmmmm... you Mum sounds like she was a colourful and humorous Gal! I'll capsize my Sputnik sometime and see if I can do some 'curtain
dusting' and 'insect spraying' [now where's that DDT .....]!!!
