Horseshoes and Brakeshoes – Mechanising the British Cavalry

Roger Salmon spent his working life, from 1962, in industry in a management and leadership role in which many technological and cultural changes took place.

Roger retired early to indulge his passion for horses and riding and to formally study military history.

Graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in War Studies at the University of Birmingham, he was invited to research the subject of cavalry mechanization, first at Birmingham, and subsequently at the University of Wolverhampton, where he was awarded a PhD in 2014.

Dr Salmon has published a number of articles on different aspects of military history and is author of 'Everything Worked Like Clockwork' - The Mechanization of British Regular and Household Cavalry 1918-1942, published by Helion & Company in 2016, with a reprint in paperback in 2022.

Roger is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.