News Archives - February 2011

Brompton bicycles held up as best of British

Vince Cable and Nick Clegg this week visited Brompton, Britain’s largest bicycle manufacturer, to promote manufacturing in Britain and encourage more young people to consider careers in engineering and manufacturing.

Fiat 500 TwinAir heralds ultra-clean petrol cars

This summer’s most desirable car is not a supercar, like the forthcoming McLaren 12-C or Ferrari FF, but rather a diminutive and fuel-efficient city car that has captured the hearts of motoring journalists around the world; Jeremy Clarkson may not be known for his environmental sympathies, but wrote this week that he would sooner have the £10,000 Fiat 500 TwinAir on his driveway than a £1m Bugatti Veyron.

2012 Olympics velodrome design steals the show

London’s Olympic velodrome, which was completed and unveiled this week, looks set to be the jewel in the crown of the 2012 Games. Photographs and film footage do not do justice to the dramatic look and feel of the building, designed by Hopkins Architects, a firm best-known for the Mound Stand at Lord’s cricket ground.

The Segway rival that fits in your briefcase

It looks like it might have come from the parts bin at the Segway factory, but the Solowheel is a revolutionary self-balancing electric unicycle the size of a laptop bag.