Another world beating product from Lancashire the Ewbank mechanical carpet sweepers became so popular in Britain that their name was used to describe any carpet sweeper, much like Hoover is used to describe any vacuum cleaner.

Entirely mechanical the carpet sweeper featured a rotating cylinder with stiff bristles to brush loose material into a fixed dustpan, all the operator needed to do was push it along. In the days before electrical appliances in Lancashire homes this made the task of sweeping floors and carpets by hand much easier. Even after the widespread adoption of the electric vacuum cleaner the Ewbank remained a popular choice for a quick and quiet clean up.

Although mechanical carpet sweepers had been invented in America, Ewbank was made by a Lancashire company Entwisle & Kenyon Limited, Accrington who began in 1864 producing water meters. During the 1870s they turned to domestic appliances like manual washing machines and mangles. While one of the company's representatives, Richard Walton Kenyon, was in the United States in 1882 sourcing wooden rollers he visited a carpet sweeper factory in Chicago and brought back the idea. In 1889 Kenyon designed the company's first carpet sweeper and it went on sale as the 'Ewbank' carpet sweeper, named after the area in Accrington where the factory was located.

The company made many different models of the carpet sweeper with this model the 'Success' dating from the 1920s, a time when Ewbank was at its peak. Other model names of the period like Royal, Conquest, and Empire speak volumes about both national sentiment and a new advertising industry aimed at an emerging consumer market. All from an Accrington company which continues to make carpet sweepers to this day.