From the chair: April 2014

March is generally not my favourite month.  As a monthly magazine editor, it means a short month in February, plus the Geneva Show, which means a pile of extra work. I’m not complaining, but usually glad when April Fools Day comes looming up over the horizon....

From the chair: March 2014

According to The Bluffer’s Guide to Public Relations, PR people should disabuse themselves of the notion that journalists attend press launches to learn about their organisation’s astonishing new product or service, because they really go to talk to each other...

From the chair: February 2014

When I started out as a journalist in 1990, most of us worked for magazines and newspapers – online publications were a few years away yet.  Freelancers were in the minority. Now most of us work freelance.  It’s good to know that the UK is one of the...

From the chair: January 2014

Whenever I think that December is going to deliver a fairly relaxed run up to Christmas, I’m usually tempting fate and 2013 is no different from others. I’m running to keep up, with Christmas just four days away. Today is the winter solstice – the sun rose at 8:04...

From the chair: December 2013

It’s stir-up Sunday as I write this – a traditional reminder to get on with making the Christmas pudding, although for the Christmas cake maker in the Kendall household (me) it’s a gentle nudge to go out, get the ingredients, book some time with Ken (Wood) and get the...
Rising to the challenge and pressure

Rising to the challenge and pressure

Diesel injection has been around for a century, our technical guru John Kendall a little less, but modern common rail injection was only introduced just over 15 years ago and was a landmark in the lifetime of the WGMW, as he explains –