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 [...]
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 [...]
