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The Magic of a Name: The Rolls Royce Story PART THREE: A Family of Engines
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- “Hardback. Very Good. Photos are of the actual book.”
- Narrative Type
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781840464054
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Magic of a Name: the Rolls-Royce Story, Part 3 :A Family of Engines
- Item Height
- 234 mm
- Publisher
- Icon Books LTD
- Topic
- Science, Biology, Aircraft
- Item Weight
- 1139 g
- Item Width
- 153 mm
- Number of Pages
- 338 Pages
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In Part One we saw how two men of genius, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls, met and formed the company. In Part Two we saw how Rolls-Royce turned itself into not only a civil aerospace engine manufacturer but also one of the three leading gas-turbine engine producers in the world. However, by the 1970s Rolls-Royce was forced into receivership. The second part ends with Rolls-Royce recovering under government control and preparing itself for privatisation. In this book, Peter Pugh shows how Rolls-Royce took the courageous decision to invest in a 'family of engines'. Their resolve was severely tested in the recession of the early 1990s, but the rewards came through from the mid-1990s onwards, winning large orders all over the world. At the end of the 1990s, Rolls-Royce extended its reach into the marine and energy markets by buying Vickers, which had bought Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in 1980 and sold it in 1998 to VW. In becoming the global company that it is in 2002, Rolls-Royce forged a close alliance with BMW to produce the BR710 series aero-engines, and also with Pratt & Whitney, Fiat Avio, MTU and the Japanese Aero Engines Corporation to produce the V-2500. In the military engine field, Rolls-Royce collaborated with engine makers in Europe and the USA to produce helicopter engines and worked with others to ensure it was a major supplier on the world's two new fighters, the Eurofighter and the Joint Strike Fighter. In the mid-1990s, it made a decisive move in the USA by buying the long-established Allison Engine Company with which it had associated since the 1920s. Finally, as always with Rolls-Royce, this is a book about people - the knowledgeable, skilful, hard-working people that have made Rolls-Royce Britain's foremost engineering company, led in this period by a man, Sir Ralph Robins, who stands alongside the great Royce, Rolls and Johnson, who we read about in Part One, and Ernest Hives, who featured in Part Two.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Icon Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781840464054
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88757912
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Magic of a Name: the Rolls-Royce Story, Part 3 :A Family of Engines
Number of Pages
338 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Science, Biology, Aircraft
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
234 mm
Item Weight
1139 g
Item Width
153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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