Alex Moulton Bicycles and Pashley are expected to announce that they are to combine their capital, administration and brands into a single company for the production of Moulton Bicycles. The combined company will use the Alex Moulton name. This probably means that there will no longer be a distinction between "Pashley Moulton" and "Alex Moulton".
Production of the bicycles will initially remain unchanged, so the TSR will continue to be made in Stratford-upon-Avon, while the Esprit, New Series and Double Pylon models will continue to be made at Bradford-on-Avon.
A single website will feature the combined range.
Many questions remain, such as:
- does this mean that one can order any Alex Moulton bicycle throughany Pashley dealer.
- will there be any staff redundancies?
- will there be a clean split between the company producing the traditional Pashley range, and the new combined Pashley Moulton/Alex Moulton entity?
- will the premises in Stratford continue to be shared?
- where will new design and development work be done?
Let's hope the official announcement comes soon and we get lots of answers!
Very sensible.
For anyone interested in Bike history in the UK, this looks like there are only two real bike manufacturing company’s left in England.
“Pashley”, and the Moultonbikes friendly, bastard cousin, once removed “Brompton”!
(I see Moulton in Bradford more as a specialty bikesmith, and development company ,then as a production factory.)
As long as they still build bikes in the country, and do not outsource work to Asia, they are manufacturers and not “Import agents”!
The way things have developed makes perfect sense to me, and is in my opinion the best move for continuing Dr. Alex Moultons life work in Bicycles in the future.
Ralf Grosser
Darmstadt Germany