Who and What is Specialty Developments?

It's a service to those who have little or no internal technical support.

Specialty Developments, like all progressive businesses has evolved, yet still maintains its original ethos - to provide help to people or organisations with what they need, when they can’t work out a way to do it on their own in a cost effective way.Specialty Developments occasionally calls on support from a small collection of people who have particular skills or expertise in various engineering/technical backgrounds.Principally, the proprietor is Paul Hammond who has spent many decades as a multi-skilled engineer in University College London who is currently on secondment to the
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology as Safety and Building Manager, from his previous role as the Laboratory Manager in a Movement Disorder Research centre at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.Primarily the objective is based on helping each other out in various professional and private jobs, where we all pride ourselves on a rather old-school approach of trying to do what we can to help others.

The starting point is to give advice, particularly with what some options may be in a given project.In general we are driven by our thirst for seeking creative solutions to challenging problems.Various works are undertaken and always on the understanding of 'to our best endeavour'.If precision engineering is required, then there are lots of options out there and we not able or interested to compete with them.
What Specialty Developments can offer is time and interest to do whatever we can.'The run of the mill is not as interesting as the bizarre, odd or niche - where it just has to do that thing in that way or it won't work'.

Commercial activities started by way of working with existing manufacturers to help improve, expand and develop new and existing ranges.This initially started with specialist sporting equipment including kayaks, paddles, clothing and safety equipment. This was all under the name 'Clyde’s Polo Kit' (our original identity), going on to retail many of these lines with some in-house manufacturing using composite materials.As a commercial venture Clyde’s Polo Kit was chiefly interested in Specialty Sporting Equipment, but despite this, many clients in the Medical Research sector sought help in various scientific projects.As the number of clients increased, it was felt more appropriate to start afresh with a new identity to allow creative scope for that more prominent direction.At the heart of it all two aspects remain; innovation and creativity.
Specialty Development was created to serve that goal.

The examples shown on the following pages are a very small sample of the many products and projects worked on and supplied.