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vacuum cleaners and other small appliances, continued to manufacture Goblin vacuum cleaners until the mid-2000s. Most of these were budget cylinder models similar to their Morphy
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fame) and the compact "Rio" cleaner of the 1980s. In the early 1980s the company changed its name to BVC, British Vacuum
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