AND HERE’S ONE THAT WORKED PERFECTLY WELL FOR 56 YEARS

A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE man has been crowned the owner of Britain’s oldest fridge.

Edmund Garrod, from High Wycombe, has owned the 1954 General Electric Company DE30 model for 56 years.

Apart from needing a new thermostat a few weeks after his parents bought it, the fridge has worked perfectly.

‘I suppose things were built better then,’ said Mr Garrod, left, who won a competition run by AMDEA, the UK trade association for appliance manufacturers.