Crikey 6.30am, but a lucky man if you still have a show to go to. Nope Derek nothing to do with washing of bodies or clothes.
Resume of clues so far:
Mobile
A clutch is somehow involved
Larger than two people
Fairly common, probably everyone on here has seen one, sometimes daily (less A-D)
These have been made in UK & Australia
Was around in 1971
A-D is very common everyone will have seen them. There is a tenuous link to a recent MO.