Former caretaker can identify vacuum cleaners by their sound

By Rebecca LeFort Published: 8:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

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James Brown claims he can brand opposite opening cleaners simply by their sound. The Sunday Telegraph put him to the exam and challenged him to recognize five machines from his pick up from the sound of their motors.

As Mr Brown sits blindfolded, the initial appurtenance an Electrolux Z406 is switched on.

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Once the whirring dies down Mr Brown shortly names the scold device.

"It was the second opening cleanser my silent got me. It was a Co-operative store disdainful and my initial honest opening cleaner. They are utterly singular right away since usually the Co-op sole them," he said.

Next was the Electrolux Turbomatic 358, fast picked out by Mr Brown.

"The turbo brush done it some-more absolute and it showed how opening cleaners had progressed over the years," he said.

Then the Electrolux Z345. A flutter of disbelief entered Mr Brown"s mind prior to he in the future identified the right model.

"This is one of my favourites for nauseating reasons since it was the opening cleanser that got me in to them. It was the best-selling Electrolux and had a prolonged run in between about 1976 and 1982 but being transposed by a newer model, that is unusual," he said.

Next was the one of Mr Brown"s Kirbys, the majority costly vacuums accessible that gloss and shampoo as they go. His pick up includes all of the models constructed by the American company, detached from the first, expelled in 1906.

"Oh, that"s easy," he pronounced as shortly as the humming began. "For story and opening this is the best. It"s the Rolls-Royce of opening cleaners."

Finally Mr Brown picked out the Electrolux Z610. "It was one of the initial ones that I unequivocally longed for and got for myself. I was the initial opening cleanser in Britain to have attachments put on the back," he said.

Verdict: 5/5