A prototype can impress a room and still be impossible to manufacture. Cambridge Design Partnership has built a business in that awkward gap, fixing everything from diagnostic instruments to the feel of a kitchen knife.
A belt that misbehaved. A tram gearbox with a noise limit. Romax turns the awkward interactions inside rotating machinery into problems engineers can tackle before production.
Morson Projects spent decades doing the unphotogenic work behind aircraft, power stations and rail controls. Now renamed Morson Praxis, it is betting that clients want fewer handoffs between the clever plan and the stubborn real world.
Morson Praxis has folded several specialist firms into one engineering consultancy with a blunt promise: define the problem, design the answer, then stay for delivery. Its work stretches from 29,000 railway bridges to the tooling around a four-passenger electric aircraft.