Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, famously said 'if you want to go faster, just add lightness'.

Add to this the slightly more pessimistic observation that has become known as 'Murphy's Law', 'if anything can go wrong, it will', and often embellished with 'and at the worst possible time'.

What does all this have to do with espresso machines we hear you ask?

Well, when you are a niche global business as we are there is one thing we prize above all else; machines that provide exceptional results straight out of the box, and keep doing so for years and years.  In the unlikely of malfunction they need to be products that can be fixed easily 'over the phone'.

We supply spare parts anywhere in the globe at very short notice with the use of express couriers, and the design of the products is such that anyone who can be trusted with a screwdriver can fit them, without recourse to a specialist espresso machine engineer or special tools that the manufacturer only provides to factory trained personnel.

Location of Londinium customers (online sales) by geographic location:

We have proved time and again what a harsh environment espresso machines present; water, heat, steam, electricity.  This kind of combination virtually guarantees that any weak points in the design of an espresso machine will be found out sooner or later.  As the 'playstation generation' we tend to place undue weighting on how 'eye-catching' the electronics are.

Unfortunately the allure of the electronics, PIDs and all, won't over come basic shortcomings in the thermo-dynamic design of a machine.  For this reason we favour the Bosco lever espresso machines, workhorses that remain largely undiscovered outside Italy.  

Londinium is proud to bring Bosco to the world as it is a product that we can rely upon to embellish our reputation with the exceptional espresso it delivers with minimal training, and is what we like to colloquially refer to as a 'bomb-proof' machine when referring to its reliability.

Bosco espresso machines are currently making exceptional espresso in Afghanistan as I write this, such is their reputation for the quality of the espresso they can reliably provide in one of the less hospitable regions of the world.

We are trying to obtain some images of this machine in operation for publication on this blog.