Stupid Question about the Vanishing Cabinet

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 141660

 Laura asked:
> >
> > Can someone please direct me to which book (and page number, if 
you 
> > can) that this vanishing cabinet is mentioned?  
> 
> Geoff answered (with page numbers):
> The two references I can recall are:

> He never managed to get all the words out" said Fred, "due to the 
> fact that we forced him head-first into that Vanishing Cabinet on 
the 
> first floor."
> 

 Then, as though he [Malfoy]
> could not help himself, he said, "I had to mend that broken 
Vanishing 
> Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got stuck in 
> last year."

Potioncat asks:
Didn't Peeves drop a vanishing cabinet on the floor above Filch's 
office so that Filch would let Harry go? Seems like Sir Nick played a 
part in it. Not sure though, which book it was.

BTW, is there something in the RW a vanishing cabinet might 
correspond to? Is there a British phrase for an appliance that would 
match it? I mean, is JKR making a pun of sorts?