If you could afford to splash out £160 on a second-hand washing machine you wouldn't have to go and rent a new one at ten times the cost.

Anyhow, we can easily cover the price of an overhaul, or maybe even of a reconditioned second-hand machine of a later model.

Where possible I will buy really good quality second-hand machines from a reliable dealer.

I have tried buying second-hand machines at auction with some mixed success.

A year later she bought a second-hand knitting machine and set up shop.

The 150 kilowatt turbine, a second-hand machine originally built by the Danish wind energy manufacturer Bonus, currently provides electrical power for the entire village.

Dorothy's husband had plumbed in the second-hand washing machine for her, and refused to accept money, taken all Saturday morning doing it.

I want,' he said to the salesman who came forward, 'to buy a second-hand machine.

"I doubt if Sir David would consider a second-hand machine for Mr. Cyril's expedition," he said patiently.

I was able to buy a second-hand machine with an electric motor at a charity shop a few months ago.