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An 80-year-old electric hairdryer, created by a Siemens branch in United Kingdom, remains in exact working order and, according to its proprietor, retired insurance company director John Wilcox, it has ne'er broken down or even wanted a service - setting the world record for the Oldest working electric hairdryer.Weighing a hefty 2lb the dryer's just controls are on/off and hot/cold. It came with a Bakelite carry-case – now slimly cracked – complete with a vanity mirror.
The brown Bakelite item's only concession to technical advances has been afresh plug – and only then as it is original round-pin type became obsolete.
Though Siemens is a German firm, according to the engineering history website Grace's Guide, it accomplished Siemens Electric Lamps and Supplies Ltd in UK in 1931 to make up domestic appliances such as this dryer.
Mr Wilcox, 83, from Paignton, Devon, recalls watching his mother Florrie use it at the family home in Birmingham, seventy yrs agone.
Portraits of Florrie, spanning 5 decades, show her sporting a variety of hairstyles.
His wife Kay, seventy-three, who's a hairdresser, says the portraits indicate when the machine arrived in the household.
They progress from an unfettered look in her teens to a more integrated cut. 'Having an electric hairdryer in the Thirties was still a luxury for women,' said Mrs Wilcox.
The Guinness world record for the oldest steam clean engine in working order was set by the Smethwick Engine. Designed by James Watt and built by the Birmingham Canal Company (United Kingdom) in 1779 at a cost of £2,000 the pump worked on the locks at Smethwick, West Midlands, United Kingdom, until 1891.
Guinness World Records also accredited the Oldest computer mouse, invented by Douglas Engelbart (U.S.) in 1964.
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