Why England’s historic chalk streams matter. With super clean fluids being the key to quality hydraulics, Sarum Hydraulics knows the benefits of filtration using our own stainless steel filter units. In Salisbury, where we are known for the iconic John Constable painting of the River Avon and its timeless water meadows in front of Salisbury [...]
Clean the mud of your Wellies. Forget about the dumped tent. And stop trying to remember who was playing on Friday night through a beer fuelled haze. As another Festival Season came to a close with the excellent Bestival on the Isle of Wight only a stone’s throw from Sarum HQ in Salisbury, maybe the [...]
From resurrecting a 2000 year old mummy to catalysing time travel, the power of lightning has been the magic ingredient in literature and Hollywood for decades, and no wonder. With unspeakable power, danger, dramatic CGI effects and the scope for tragedy, is there anything more dazzling or more fascinating? Go back way before Steam [...]
Sarum Hydraulics is excited at media interest in our latest Wiltshire Neolithic megaproject, discovered minutes up the road from Sarum Hydraulics’ HQ. image source Archaeologists are still mapping the recently discovered site, but researchers have already described the series of stone monoliths as being “extraordinary in scale” with preliminary estimates putting “Super Henge” [...]
You don’t have to work at Sarum Hydraulics to appreciate innovative design when you see it. As our recent visit to the V&A’s seminal tribute to late designer Alexander McQueen proves, exquisite design comes in many shapes and forms. Sarum Hydraulics experiences the intricate complexity of couture design at Savage Beauty. Image Source [...]
From Hollywood to Hubble: The private space industry needs an escape orbit from Hollywood Blockbusters. After the explosion of his Falcon 9 Reusable rocket over Texas last year, TESLA CEO Elon Musk shrewdly tweeted that “Rockets can be tricky.” Tricky they are, and no doubt Mr .Musk is feeling greatly disappointed this week after the [...]
Sarum Hydraulics employees prove you really can have it all. Living the dream is fast becoming a reality here at Sarum Hydraulics, and we are thrilled to report that two of our former employees are well on their way to rock and roll lifestyles. Having surfed through the summer of 2013 at Sarum Hydraulics, Rory [...]
Has the smart phone revolution already powered up a Continent? How smart phones change lives in the developing world. The Economist reckons that by 2020, 80% of the adults in the world will have a smart phone (a great article on http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645180-smartphone-ubiquitous-addictive-and-transformative-planet-phones ). I remember an article ten or fifteen years ago in the same [...]
Paul Durand-Ruel must be the art dealers' dealer. As a well established dealer in Paris in the late 1800's, he knew Claude Monet and was introduced to young Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his circle of friends including Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley and others. He had the vision to bet the house on buying a [...]
Would Alfred Lord Tennyson still know it? How Orchards Brothers' heritage goes back five generations. Orchard Brothers in Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight is an institution. Alfred Lord Tennyson used to pop across the road to the shop from his beautiful house, Farringford, to buy some ciggies or a clay pipe (I reckon). I am [...]
