WEEKLY DIGEST

The umbrella maker, the dairyman and the bag seller (Spitalfields Life)

Tim Little of Grenson interview (Rapha)

Little also features in this piece on the 'resurgence' of British made shoes (Telegraph)

Succinct overview on the history of Leicester's Pantherella sock company (Tweed Pig)

The BBC spent budget day in a well known bicycle factory in the Midlands (Pashley)

Meanwhile, a Bath based brewer gives his reaction to Osborne's beer duty rise (SIBA)

Rapha to work with six British bike frame builders on the UK Continental (Rapha)

Trunki, the brand of wheeled suitcases for children, is to move its manufacturing to Britain (Bristol Business News)

An informative piece on Falmouth's furniture designers and makers (Telegraph)

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Photograph by Colin O'Brien for Spitalfields Life

WEEKLY DIGEST

Items of note on manufacturing in the UK and related subjects from the last week:

The newly unveiled McLaren production centre looks pretty swish (Design Boom)

Inside Pashley: Britain's oldest bicycle maker (Humans Invent)

"The design and making of things is terribly important, especially at this moment in time." Sir Terence Conran on Front Row (BBC R4)

Why doesn't Britain make things anymore? (Guardian)

related: Aditya Chakrabortty on the 'de-industrial revolution' (BBC R3)

Fiat boss urges CBI: keep UK factories open (Guardian)

McLaren image from Design Boom

ONE FOR THE LADIES

Stratford upon Avon's finest bicycle manufacturer, Pashley, is celebrating the coming of spring by offering its classic Princess model in three new colours. In a nod to the company's manufacturing process taking place in the UK, the Brittania bicycle range comes in red, white or blue. We plumped for the red to match the masthead, obviously.