Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Leicester Manufacturing History

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 My exploration of British manufacturing has been sector by sector and chronological. It is time now to begin to join up the dots and explor...
Monday, December 18, 2023

My talk to the Leicester Historical Association on How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing world

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I want this evening to talk about my quest to discover How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World. My quest began in April 2014. I brought d...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

Talk to Leicester branch of the Historical Association

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 Delighted to have been invited to do a virtual talk about How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World.  I have dispensed with PowerPoint and...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Vehicles to Vaccines - a working draft

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  This week I have been editing the draft of my next book Vehicles to Vaccines exploring the #ukmfg story from 1951. I have also received a ...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

Jaguar and Land Rover - odd bedfellows?

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William Lyons and the Wilks brothers created remarkable companies which made iconic vehicles. Was it just fate that brought the companies t...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Lucas - King of the Air

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Lucas occupied a special place in the aircraft industry supplying electrical systems for aircraft. The number of aircraft manufactured ...

Lucas - King of the Road

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 Lucas were the backbone of the British motor industry right from the start. The three generations of the Lucas family strongly support...

Winners and losers since 1951 - Rolls-Royce and Bentley

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Reviewing the draft of my next book, working title ' Vehicles to Vaccines ', some companies jump out as conspicuous success stories,...