In order to full fill the design brief Bailey set up an in-house design team known as Team Pegasus. This group of eight people, with exactly 100 years experience in caravan manufacturing, was selected from all areas of the company, and were each given responsibility for a specific element of the development process.
Under the guidance of Bailey Managing Director Nick Howard, for a two year period, Team Pegasus has undertaken the most comprehensive product validation programme the industry has ever known, re-evaluating every aspect of leisure vehicle design.
The result is the development if the Alu-Tech body shell construction system.
Name: Nick Howard
Position: Managing Director
Years Service at Bailey: 14 years
Project Director and the man who came up with the original Alu-Tech construction system concept.
Name: Steve Wills
Position: Design Office Manager
Years Service at Bailey: 10 years
Former student of Dr Jos Darling at the University of Bath, Steve now runs the Bailey Design Office. He was involved in all areas of the project ensuring the host of new ideas worked both on paper and in practise.
Name: Russell Bray
Position: Senior Production Manager
Years Service at Bailey: 20 years
Russell heads up the laminating plant at Bailey consequently he was the ideal candidate to investigate body shell panel construction techniques and composition.
Name: Philippa Brown-Jackson
Position: Commercial Manager
Years Service at Bailey: 7 years
In addition to working in the Commercial Department, Pippa has also spent time in the Design Office ensuring her product knowledge is second to none. She worked on probably the most revolutionary aspect of the design - the aluminium extrusion framework.
Name: Colin Coke
Position: Production Engineer
Years Service at Bailey: 12 years
Colin is the team's most ardent caravanner and consequently can look at the product through the eyes of the user. His area of expertise is the caravan services (230v and 12v electric, gas, fresh and waste water) and most notable achievement was gaining Grade III Classification for Thermal Insulation (EN1645-I).
Name: Mark Fifoot
Position: Production Manager
Years Service at Bailey: 21 years
Longest serving member of the team, Mark has previously worked in a number of areas of the factory. However his real passion has always been furniture design and construction and as a result he was selected as the person to develop the new front bunk and overhead locker assemblies.
Name: Bob Swain
Position: Production Engineer
Years Service at Bailey: 8 years
Bob's primary role in this project was to co-ordinate the external testing programme with our third party development partners - most notably Millbrook Proving Ground, The University of Bath, RAPRA and FIRA.
Name: Rachel May
Position: Sales & Marketing Co-ordinator
Years Service at Bailey: 8 years
Rachel's role was to consider the project from a sales and marketing perspective and to ensure the features and benefits of the new construction system were successfully communicated to the end user.
