Good luck to the fella.
Sir James Dyson, the billionaire who made his fortune through the bagless vacuum cleaner, now owns more land in England than the Queen, after buying a 3,000 acre estate in Lincolnshire.
The inventor now has one of the largest private landholdings in the country since he purchased the Cranwell and Roxholme estate from the Crown Estate.
Dyson's land 25,000 acre land portfolio now also exceeds the Queen’s 20,000 acre Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, as well as the Duke of Bedford’s 13,000 acres in Bedfordshire.
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Sadly he'd probably invest in Ipswich, being a Norfolk boy.
Mind you, he has relocated to the Cotswolds so he may help out Hereford?
Most of it is useless moorland, but he still owns more acres in the UK than any other person.
Say goodbye to the bag.
Dyson is as British as they come, and did all he could to keep his company British and work with Unions. Reality got in the way, the World does not buy stuff from the UK to keep us in jobs, it buys stuff that is wanted and is competitive with World prices.
Fortunately Unions don't run businesses, apart from their own which operate as un-democratic dictatorships, and the left should stick to providing an alternative to the current capitalist system that works for everyone rather than make personal attacks those who make the current system work as best it can.
We dont do mass produced cheap goods with lots of unskilled factory workers any more in the UK. Its all about keeping his business going and making money.
Some goods do sell because they are British made; Brompton bikes. , Landrover and Jaguar cars and Triumph motorcycles (also made in far east for that market and in the UK).
Your last paragraph, " apart from their own which operate as un-democratic dictatorships". All unions or what one/ones?
"current capitalist system that works for everyone" its the only one we are ever likely to have but it certainly does not work for everyone and for those it works for it may not continue to work for them.
And the Queen (or state) will own aty precious metals, treasure, coal, oil or natural gas in ti by statutory right.
No chance of ousting Delia so his next closest club in that part of the world?
Or Hereford/Chletenham/Oxford (if he had a scintilla of interest in football) might be targets, being close to his new home.
Why is Japan the first to get Dyson’s new 360 Eye?
This post originally appeared on Akihabara News.
The Dyson 360 Eye autonomous vacuum cleaner went public in Tokyo on September 4th, and it got a lot of attention – enough to make almost any product from almost any industry jealous. There are several obvious reasons: Dyson products are aesthetically pleasing, Dyson products are unique, Dyson products perform well above average across the board, and Dyson is badass at marketing. Just look at their website; a company that makes cleaning machines and fans has a slicker web presence than actually, than most companies that make or do anything at all.
Also, there’s the new device itself. The steadily plodding iterations of iRobot’s Roomba and its legion of copycats are old hat, and we aren’t really impressed anymore. While the 360 Eye performs the same task, it stands out, and just kinda has that new robot smell. The talking points/broad strokes/things to know are:
Dyson 360 Eye: Sixteen Years of Research; $47 million Investment
Q. Why Japan first? Why Japan only (for a time, anyway)?
A. Japan is first now, because Japan was first then (and the market is huge)
In design and engineering circles, James Dyson is famous for meticulous attention to both the performance and the appearance of his company’s products. Lore tells of Dyson creating over 5000 prototype designs before deciding that he’d perfected his first ‘Dual Cyclone’ dust/dirt separation tech. We’re pretty sure someone’s counting scribbles on cocktail napkins there, but the point remains.
In the early 1980s, Dyson finally had a model he believed ready for production, but no household appliance makers in his native UK or in the US were interested. Whether accurate or not, lore also speaks of a Little Guy Makes Good story, i.e., he was dismissed by Hoover and friends because the home cleaning giants were worried about monkeywrenching their comfortable hold on a hugely lucrative market.
But guess who was interested: Japanese appliance company Apex, Inc. They licensed Dyson’s technology and in 1983 produced the G-Force Cleaner. The big pink vacuum was a hit, and it was with the earnings from this licensing venture that Dyson the man created Dyson the company – and things have gone quite well since.
Sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
If only Apple could say the same don't you think?