I only managed to catch up with this programme last night and they showed Dominic dealing with the cutest little Wilcox and Gibbs machine - even my husband was amazed - and wondered whether I would like one - now that is unusual for him. Sadly though these little beauties fetch an eye watering price when they are available. I must say I was rather taken aback when Dominic actually immersed parts of the machine in a bowl of soapy water - how on earth did he then ensure that these parts were totally dry inside. Once clean and re assembled the machine did sew although it was only a chain stitch and from what we could see this worked, but I know that chain stitch can easily miss a stitch and thus unravel so very quickly.
For those interested in this programme but didn't see it, it was shown on BBC1 Tuesday 15th September so probably availabe on i-player.