85-year-old vacuum cleaner still works

85-year-old vacuum cleaner still works

''It's a bit heavy for me to use every week now but before that it was used two to three times a week.''

An 85-year-old vacuum cleaner is still in working order.

Bill Whitwam has used the machine - that was produced in 1929 - to clean an amazing 224 acres over its lifetime and claims it's never needed any parts replacing apart from the occasional rewiring.

He told The Sun newspaper: ''In its lifetimes it's covered some distance - fortunately I haven't done it all. I'm living in a two-bedroom terraced house after downsizing five years ago from a five bedroom detached house.

''It's a bit heavy for me to use every week now but before that it was used two to three times a week.''