The Brompton: Engineering for Change

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Butler-Adams’s heartfelt mission is to grow and promote sustainable urban transportation and to improve city-dwellers’ lives everywhere. For my 60th birthday to celebrate it I did the Brompton World Championship - and have uploaded a copy of my medal. The Brompton Bicycle is an marvel of precision engineering produced by an empathic living company that is like no other.

This updated third edition brings the story up to June 2020, through Brompton’s explosive global growth, to less salutary lessons, like failures, Covid-19 and the Electric model. Whether or not you own one of these folding bikes, you will find this an interesting and inspiring read. Initially, he worked as an engineer for Andrew Ritchie, the bike’s brilliant inventor and the business’s founder, before taking the helm in 2008. Anyone interested in managing enterprises should read this as it has some perceptive insights into the real issues of managing people to achieve a goal. TheNotebook by Roland Allen is a gorgeously illustrated cultural history of the humble notebook, from the bustling markets of medieval Florence to the quiet studies of our greatest thinkers.Henshaw makes some interesting observations in the latest edition, which ends in a rather less cheery place than the earlier ones. This is obviously written with a ‘factory’ hat on, so a slightly different perspective to our book ‘Brompton Bicycle’, but Will is very honest about the things he might have done differently with the benefit of hindsight.

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