{"id":781756,"date":"2026-09-25T03:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781756\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:08:13","slug":"henry-superfan-from-melksham-shows-off-35-strong-vacuum-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781756\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry superfan from Melksham shows off 35-strong vacuum collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An eight-year-old Henry vacuum cleaner superfan has been gifted a limited edition model in honour of the company&#8217;s 45th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ted, from Melksham in Wiltshire, has amassed a collection of 35 Henrys since his &#8220;hyper-fixation&#8221; began three years ago, with the oldest dating back to 1989.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was presented with one of only 1,000 special edition vacuums during a tour of the Numatic International factory in Chard, Somerset, to mark National Manufacturing Day earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ted, who uses a different vacuum to clean everyday, said: &#8220;I like to use all of them in the house, not just the broken ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His obsession began aged five when his father, Matt, asked him to wipe down their Hetty vacuum cleaner to remove the dust and keep him busy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When he realised his school kept a Henry for each cleaner, Ted began asking to help tidy up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eight-year-old Henry vacuum cleaner superfan has been gifted a limited edition model in honour of the company&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}