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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 [...] 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 [...] This month, GQ Japan features an interview with Alex Moulton and the collections of Ken and Paul Butterfield. The picture below, from ozunu.exblog.jp shows Ken, Paul and Moultoneer editor, Tom Esslemont. A copy can be purchased from Amazon.co.jp, for less than 5 euro. However, shipping will cost about 30 euro. #gallery-1 { Check out this Moulton APB Tandem on Youtube. Moulton have never built a factory tandem, but several Mouton based tandems have been created as custom projects, by third-party framebuilders. Several APB based tandems have been built by Doug Pinkerton. Here is one example of a Doug Pinkerton Moulton APB Tandem See also an ATB based tandem in [...] The new Moulton SPEED is the first production Moulton bicycle to weigh in at less than 20lb (9.1kg)- quite some feat for a full-suspension road bike. As befits a special bicycle, the Moulton SPEED is equipped with Campagnolo Super Record components, and is fitted with Moulton’s own seat pillar and handlebar stem in Reynolds 953. The [...] |
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