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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What will re-invented microscopy mean for Manufacturing? As a specialist hydraulics manufacturer, Sarum Hydraulics is surprisingly excited about any advance in mobile microscopy. From looking at finishes and watching hydraulics at work to characterising contamination, microscopes continue to prove themselves invaluable during the day to day running of our shop. They are just a great [...]
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” [...]
For the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde experience, why not take a spin in the classic Mercedes 600? Adored by superstars and beloved by dictators, Sarum Hydraulics explores the Cold War Monster that was as brilliant as it was ostentatious. image source People who consider themselves slightly vintage ought to remember the Mercedes 600, [...]
Hedonism, high seas and Hydraulics; how this summer’s super yachts are steering hydraulic innovation. With the summer press full of photographs of celebrities adrift on azure seas aboard some of the world’s most advanced super yachts, let us not forget the amount of pulling, pushing, raising, lowering and manoeuvring that is working hard behind the [...]
Yachts, Airbus and flying boats. How Cowes is keeping its marine and aerospace heritage alive. This week is Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, the classic sailing regatta that has been running since 1826. At Sarum Hydraulics we love the spectacle and with some 8000 competitors, up to 1000 boats racing and 40 races each day, [...]
How smart water hydraulics boosted a blockbuster business. Sarum Hydraulics in Salisbury, UK, takes innovation in water hydraulics very seriously. With our pumps regularly being used across the globe, at Sarum Hydraulics we can’t help but wonder if our success might have something to do with Salisbury’s own hydraulic heritage. From 19th Century sophisticated [...]
