The Brompton: Engineering for Change

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Discover your next non-fiction read and brilliant book gifts in the Profile newsletter, and find books to help you live well with Souvenir Press. Largely forgotten by corporate executives, the ancient locomotive ‘Watercress Queen’ plodded around the watercress beds doing what it had always done since it was built in 1948. But progress hasn’t always been easy: There have been boardroom struggles, supply-chain problems, and conflicts with founder Andrew Ritchie.

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We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.This is not only the first look behind the scenes at Brompton Bicycle Ltd, but a masterclass in entrepreneurship, manufacturing, and scaling a business. Contrast this with less than a page given over to the life-changing event in Brompton Bicycle, where it was felt there had been a 'smooth transfer of power' – because that book has an entirely different focus, and is complementary rather than in competition. 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. I recommend this delightful book to anyone who believes that the journey is the destination and that gentle (and often uphill) adventure is the stuff of life.