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Peter Jones & Partners

Peter Jones & Partners is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Peter Jones & Partners rather than just read about it. In short: Peter Jones & Partners (formerly and still colloquially Peter Jones) is a Grade II listed department store in Sloane Square in Chelsea, London, England. It was designed by William Crabtree for John Spedan Lewis, and opened in 1936; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded by Peter Jones in 1877.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Peter Jones & Partners (formerly and still colloquially Peter Jones) is a Grade II listed department store in Sloane Square in Chelsea, London, England. It was designed by William Crabtree for John Spedan Lewis, and opened in 1936; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded by Peter Jones in 1877. It is owned by the John Lewis Partnership, which also owns the John Lewis department store and the Waitrose supermarket chains.

History The shop is named after Peter Rees Jones (1842–1905), the son of a Carmarthenshire hat manufacturer. After serving an apprenticeship with a draper in Cardigan, Jones moved to London and established a small shop in Marylebone Lane. He then moved to central London, and in 1877, he moved to 4–6 King's Road, the current site of the store. The business flourished, soon expanding to cover most of the block, occupied on a 999-year lease from the Cadogan estate at £6,000 per year, the terms of which have never been increased. After a period of troubled trading and Jones' death, the store was purchased by John Lewis of the eponymous Oxford Street store, who handed it over to his son John Spedan Lewis in 1914. Soon after, it became part of the John Lewis profit sharing partnership. In 2009, Simon Fowler was appointed managing director, overseeing a two-year period of growth where sales and profits reached record levels. This period also spanned Peter Jones' 100th anniversary of its membership at the John Lewis Partnership, where it is widely recognised to be the birthplace of the democratic employee ownership structure still found in the retailer today. Tony Wheeler was appointed managing director in 2011.

Architecture The present building, which occupies an entire island site on the west side of Sloane Square, was built between 1932 and 1936 to designs by William Crabtree of the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly. The building is the first modern-movement use of the glass curtain wall in Britain (not, as is often claimed, the first per se, as late-Victorian examples in the Gothic Revival style exist) and is now a Grade II* listed building.

The store completed a lengthy refurbishment by John McAslan and Partners in 2004.

Customers The store holds two royal warrants granted by Charles, then Prince of Wales, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Old logo used from 2000 to 2018

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Peter Jones & Partners

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Peter Jones & Partners claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Peter Jones & Partners before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Peter Jones & Partners ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Peter Jones & Partners

In research: Peter Jones & Partners appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Peter Jones & Partners in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Peter Jones & Partners is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1877 establishments in England, Art Deco architecture in London, British companies established in 1877, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Peter Jones & Partners outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Peter Jones & Partners matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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