Good Housekeeping Tests (1956)

M/S of Reg Winkley at the Good Housekeeping Institute in London; he is timing a strange contraption on the bench in front of him in a laboratory. The machine has revolving wooden sand-papered blocks that repeatedly rub over a square of carpet to test the durability; Reg takes the carpet section out to check it and replaces it. These tests take place for products that have applied for the Good Housekeeping Certificate and Seal of Guarantee. M/Ss and C/Us of Brenda Pleasance and Ann Bargeman in blue overalls; Brenda sprinkles some dust onto strips of the same carpet and they use upright vacuum cleaners to hoover it up. This is to test performance of the vacuum cleaners: the women weigh the vacuum bags to see how much dust they have picked up. Pamela Couch is seen testing two electric food mixers; one is trundling round while she puts some jelly into another and starts it up. M/S of a woman opening an oven and taking some little sponge cakes out; she puts them on a wire rack with some others to cool.