Corby Trouser Press

Two questions just popped into my head:

  1. Do Corby make anything other than trouser presses?
  2. Does anyone other than Corby make them?

The Corby trouser press, along with tea and coffee making facilities, is a basic feature expected of all British hotel rooms. It seems that Corby have really captured the market and are running some sort of monopoly in wall-mounted hotel-based crease-removing devices. The only other name I can see is Morphy Richards, but who’d be happy with one of their trouser presses?

In my travels around the web, I also found a magazine called Trouser Press. Unfortunately, rather than being one of those irrelevant niche publications that pops up on Have I Got News For You, its actually “the bible of alternative rock since 1983″.

To answer my first question, Corby don’t seem to make anything other than trouser presses. Personally I would have thought it would have been difficult to keep the business going, but it appears that demand is high enough.

Oh, and one last question: does anyone actually use the trouser presses in hotel rooms?

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