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From This Is Wiltshire A huge crowd – including former TV presenter Roger Cook – descended on Bradford on Avon on Sunday to celebrate the birthdays of two of the town’s most respected residents with exhibitions on their working lives. Bradford on Avon Museum’s trustees planned the event to coincide with the landmark birthdays of Marcos founder Jem [...] Last Friday marked the 90th Birthday of one of Britain’s most remarkable engineers and although the work of Dr Alex Moulton has been involved for most of those years behind the scenes with suspension in general and cars in particular – most famously on the original and iconic 1959 Mini – it is on bicycles and [...] Alex Moulton’s new city bicycle can be ready in an instant. Inventor Alex Moulton may be 90 years old today, but that did not stop him from launching his latest creation, a new, small-wheeled unisex bicycle. The Moulton bike, which can be dissembled for ease of transport, is a common sight on London’s streets. But today he [...] The designer who helped create the Mini has described the demise of manufacturing in the Midlands as a “terrible tragedy” and called on the education system to do more to promote practical engineering innovation among a new generation of designers. Dr Alex Moulton played a crucial role in the creation of the Mini for what was then [...] A weekend of celebration is planned to honour two distinguished Bradford on Avon engineers on their landmark birthdays. Dr Alex Moulton, inventor of the Moulton bicycle and designer of the suspension for the original Mini, will be 90 on April 9, while on April 15 Jem Marsh, co-founder of sports car manufacturer Marcos, will turn 80. Bradford on [...] |
     
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