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Dr Alex Moulton CBE
Wednesday 17th February 2010
5:00 pm, Jessie Phipps Lecture Theatre, BIAD, Birmingham UK
Dr Alex Moulton, whose inventions include the Moulton bicycle
and work on the Mini, will be in conversation with his friend
and colleague, David Duffield, well-known sports reporter and
former Tour de France commentator.
Now 89, Dr Alex Moulton CBE RDI FEng is a highly respected
English engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, renowned worldwide
for his expertise in suspension design. His ground-breaking
inventions include his work on the Mini with Alec Issigonis, and
his pioneering work developing the small-wheeled bike, the
Moulton, with its own particular brand of style, flair, panache,
convenience and perhaps best of all comfort!
His bicycle design ethos was, in the late 1950s, completely at
odds with the accepted norms of the cycle industry, but given
his background in aeronautical and automotive engineering, this
is perhaps unsurprising. His breadth of vision enabled him to
take a revolutionary new view of bike design and the results had
an immediate impact and were quite revolutionary. As soon as the
first Moulton was launched at the Earls Court Cycle Show in 1962
it became an icon for the swinging 60s, seen as a fashionable
mini-bike to go with mini-skirts and mini cars.
Dr Moulton will recount key design episodes, the highs and some
lows as well as 'eureka moments' and some core values that have
kept him going during his long and esteemed career.
VENUE: Lecture Theatre, Emma Jessie Phipps Building, BIAD (Gosta
Green Campus B4 7DX)
A map and directions are available on our website:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/aboutus/campuses/gosta-green/getting-here
There will be refreshments before and after the event.
BOOKINGS: The event is free of charge but the number of seats is
limited, so please reserve a place by email
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David Durling FDRS PhD http://durling.tel
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