A VIEW OF ANSTY 1935-1982
Written by David E. Williams
Published by Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust
in 1998
ISBN: 1872922120
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A VIEW OF ANSTY 1935-1982
Written by David E. Williams.
Stock no. 1711920
1st.
1998.
Softcover.
Fine condition.
Historical Series No 25. Red cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 131 pages. ISBN: 1872922120.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One Origins
- Chapter Two Flying training
- Chapter Three The Flying Standards
- Chapter Four Other events on the aerodrome
- Chapter Five Turbojets and turbopops
- Chapter Six The aero engines that came to Ansty
- Chapter Seven The move from Parkside to Ansty
- Chapter Eight The ten thousand horsepower rig
- Chapter Nine P176, a supersonic turbojet
- Chapter Ten P181 and 182, the last of the line
- Chapter Eleven The high speed diesel
- Chapter Twelve Other diversifications
- Chapter Thirteen Rockets
- Chapter Fourteen Underwater weapons - the unseen activity
- Chapter Fifteen A merger and a takeover
- Chapter Sixteen 4th February 1971, the unthinkable actually happened
- Chapter Seventeen Survival and success
- Chapter Eighteen Marine gas turbines
- Chapter Nineteen Hovercraft, a hope fulfilled
- Chapter Twenty Industrial gas turbines
- Chapter Twenty-One Gas and Oil
- Chapter Twenty-Two New ideas of management
- Chapter Twenty-Three People
- Epilogue