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Not Much of an Engineer

Not Much of an Engineer


Author(s) Sir Stanley Hooker, Bill Gunston
Publisher Crowood
Published 2011-09-20
ISBN 9781847973252
Page Count256
Language en
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Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend ?63.6 million and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.