1 minute read - 12th December 2023
New book: The story of British manufacturing from 1951 to the present day
Vehicles to Vaccines tells the story of a seismic change in British manufacturing over the last seventy years. With the economy likely to feature in the forthcoming General Election, the role of the manufacturing sector will be crucial. A contributor to the book observed that ‘it is the evidence from the past that gives us clear signposts to a better future.’ This is a book of evidence.
Phil Hamlyn Williams drills down into sectors and major British companies to trace the passage of the manufacturing sector through turbulent decades which witnessed oil crises, bouts of nationalisation and privatisation, financial crashes, a pandemic and the country joining and then leaving the European Union.
New book: Vehicles to Vaccines tells the story of a seismic change in British manufacturing over the last seventy years / Picture: Philip Hamlyn Williams/Hone-All Precision
From giant companies manufacturing just about everything, it is now British software that can be found in the world’s mobile phones, a British vaccine that saved countless lives from Covid and British diggers on the world’s building sites.
The book is the sequel to How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World which explored the story of British manufacturing through the prism of the Great Exhibition of 1851.