Speedos News Update: Speedos Are Now Globally Approved!!

[Byron]

What you post reflects the thread on terminology and I have never booked a holiday with that company (and my opinion of marketing copywriters is down alongside second hand car salesmen as you might guess)

[knikon]

The one commenter hit the nail on the head.

[Torchwatch]

In the UK vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers although Hoover haven't made them for years.
Copy writers aren't interested in the accuracy of what they write more in creating a reaction in their readers. To them and therefore the unwashed public speedos are tiny and anything tiny is a speedo.

[sebbie]

Are you sure about that?

http://hoover.com/

[Torchwatch]

Hoover in the UK got bought out by an overseas rival, everything is imported and re-branded. The old Hoover factory not far from where Byron lives has been demolished.

[Byron]

...didn't know that - it was art deco Listed and Tesco took it as a supermarket.

Funny old world - the Dyson Turbo guy took his manufacturing to Malaysia for lower wage costs.

[Byron]

Seems unlikely - it's Grade I which means it's on the same List as Buckingham Palace: http://www.74simon.co.uk/hooverbuilding.html
(might you be thinking of the similar Firestone Tyre factory on the A4?)