The Repair Shop features Bradford woman's 60s vacuum cleaner

The popular BBC One show sees experts bring sentimental or historic items back to life.

Since launching on screens in 2017, the experts have saved more than a thousand precious items and historical artefacts.

The Repair Shop: Favourite Fixes shows family heirlooms really do come in all shapes and sizes. 

Kauser Mukhtar will bring her unlikely heirloom to the attention of Dom Chinea and electronic whizz Mark Stuckey.

The vacuum cleaner had to be taken apart and put back together (Image: WB Productions) It’s a 1960s vacuum cleaner, her favourite toy when she was little.

The cleaner has no wheels and would hover over the carpet. 

Kauser and her siblings have fond memories of riding on top of it for a spin across the room. 

But decades of wear and tear, and sitting in her dad’s garage, have left the machine rusted and the electrics no longer working.

It will take a team effort from Dom and Mark to get the unlikely toy back in tip-top shape for Kauser - all in the hopes of passing it on to her daughter. 

The BBC’s preview reads: “Dom must tackle the rusted metal casing and make it airtight before a new paint job can be attempted, while Mark is tasked with reviving the ailing motor. But will they manage to achieve lift-off when Kauser returns to the barn?

“The team love to celebrate the weird and wonderful, and take particular joy in unique inventions and eccentric personal projects.”

What to expect from The Repair Shop tonight

As always, Kauser’s item won’t be the only thing on the desks of the dedicated experts.

There’s a scientific challenge for mechanical expert Steve Fletcher as Nick Wimshurst brings a lightning machine, made by his great-great-grandfather in the Victorian era.

He hopes Steve can spark the machine back to life to honour his ancestor.

It’s a headscratcher for Steve, who is not even sure how it works.

Vanessa Buck from Bognor Regis has an unusual passenger in need of some TLC from Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch.

Leo the Lion, a giant stuffed animal, needs both the ‘Teddy Bear Ladies’ to carry him inside.

It is one of the biggest fixes Julie and Amanda have ever attempted in the barn. 

Meanwhile Bev Smith and her daughter Georgie brought a 1950s car jack to the shed.

It belonged to Bev’s granddad, Jack, who ran a caravan site with his wife. Bev grew up on the caravan site and remembers her grandfather using the jack to lift the caravans.

When he wasn’t lifting the mobile homes with it, he would turn it into Bev’s own personal fairground ride by pumping the handle.