Sarum Hydraulics love cars and are passionate about design. We were blown away with the McLaren stand at the Goodwood Festival of Speed earlier in the summer. Wow! Last week, the big F1 news was that Jenson Button plans to stay at McLaren for the 2016 season. McLaren are a world beating F1 team, but don’t forget [...]
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 [...]
Could the ioLight microscope deliver easy and low tech air pollution monitoring for the mass market? As news broke early last week of the Volkswagen diesel scandal, tremors shook the entire motoring industry. Regulators felt acutely deceived. Engineers who had created a masterpiece in the common rail diesel engine and were disappointed that their professional [...]
At Lymington Yacht Haven, Sarum Hydraulics regularly spots the most beautiful Hinckley 36 foot Picnic Boat, fitted with a pair of simply monstrous 400 horsepower Hamilton water jet drives. What’s the story on this boat? Where are we with jet drives? Has their time come for the mass market? A stroll round Southampton Boat Show [...]
Southampton Boat Week is the big deal on the Solent this week. We love it with its fabulous yachts afloat on the pontoons alongside a busy working port. As ever, the Old Salts at Sarum HQ are reminding us (again) that the two best days for a yachtsman are the day you buy it and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If 700 bar very high pressure hydraulics cuts mass and space envelope, is it the future for hydraulic systems? Jacking and work holding hydraulics at 700 bar from the likes of Enerpac, Hi-Force and Power Team has carved out a massive global business. This international "standard" of 700 bar equipment must have been used for [...]
I will skate over the obvious question as to whether a 3.78% drop in your zinc level in your sweat coupled with a 1.91% rise in blood glucose is something that will make a Healthcare Professional take notice. Interpreting vast swathes of data from one human body would be quite some job. I thought that [...]
