In Brexitcentral Matt Ridley has an interesting piece about Dyson vacuum cleaners.
Dyson’s case, which has taken five years in the courts, reveals just how corrupt and crony-capitalist the European Union has become. It is no surprise that Sir James was and is a big supporter of Britain leaving the EU. Essentially, the rules have been bent to allow German manufacturers to deceive customers about the performance of their vacuum cleaners, in a manner uncannily similar to – but even worse than — the way mostly German car manufacturers deceived customers about the emissions from diesel vehicles.
Worth reading if only as another example of how technical regulations can be bypassed by lobbying and by technical subterfuge.
However it may be worth adding that we moved away from Dyson vacuum cleaners in favour of a Miele machine which uses bags. We've owned a number of Dysons but whatever Dyson may claim, we have found that in actual use the Miele machine deals with dust more effectively and more cleanly especially when it comes to dust disposal and keeping the machine clean.
Although we still have a lightweight battery-powered Dyson for quick jobs, compared to the Miele the Dysons have been messy. We have to keep buying bags for the Miele but the dust stays in the bag.
7 comments:
Miele makes one a better class of person.
Still using a Henry both at home and for work, the little bugger will pick up anything.
James - it certainly should do but in our case I'm not so sure :)
Thud - I have a Henry for cleaning around the woodburner and general rough jobs. Also better than a Dyson - as you say it will pick up anything.
I bet Dysons are useless in houses where there is a wire-haired Jack Russell!
We need the power of a Boeing 747 in reverse to get that sort of stuff out and away...
Numatics - Henry and Co - are excellent and can be repaired with spares easily obtained. I have an adversity to plastic fantastic vacuum cleaners but we use two Hoover models stisfactorily at home. Have I gone on too long? Am I making a Miele of it . . . .
Concur with the Miele and Henry we have both, Henry does the dirty jobs and the car but the Miele has gone on seemingly for ever.
Dyson has pursued this case for years, rightly so as he learn't when he set out how the big companies then copied his designs and the time it took to bring them to heel, this case I believe goes back to when Which magazine did a test which showed they were twisting the capabilities of the German brands, but again how long and what expense to get a just result.
Scrobs - we used to have a cocker spaniel which was quite a problem in that respect. And other respects.
Jannie - we had a Hoover which went on forever until one day it fell downstairs but that was plastic. I've never had to repair our Henry which never makes a Miele of things. . . . oh dear it's catching.
Wiggia - I was surprised how quickly the big companies copied Dyson because I'd assumed he could patent the basic idea. Must have been a way round that but I've never looked into it.
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