Titlebook: Rolls-Royce; The Years of Endeavo Ian Lloyd Book 1978 Ian Lloyd 1978 business.industries

Hyperplasia

agnostic

財(cái)政

,‘A Single Firm Against a Nation’,tled and the machines sold in conformity with the earlier decision to cease manufacture. He nevertheless believed that the Springfield organisation was well equipped to act as a selling agency for the English company. They would continue to make bodies for the English chassis, most of the Brewster m

grudging

牌帶來(lái)

The Acquisition of Bentley Motors,‘respectable’ through the production of a sedate and dignified vehicle, Rolls-Royce had, to a very large extent, as Wormald pointed out in his report on the 20 h.p. sales position, forfeited the interest and custom of the class of driver who was probably best typified before the war by the Hon. C. S

inchoate

Improving the Breed, toying with the idea of producing a small radial engine suitable for small private aircraft.. It is not surprising that he should have come to the conclusion that the basic V-12 type of liquid-cooled engine, on which he had worked for some fifteen years, had been fairly fully exploited from the des

琺瑯

The Battle of Costs, aware that progress in design and in mass-production manufacturing techniques, both in Britain and the United States, had seriously undermined the economic security of the chassis division. The price which the company was paying, and asking, for its reputation was undoubtedly excessive, not because

THROB

Rearmament: the Years of Indecision,was then called, instrument first of survival and then of victory in the Second World War, started in October 1932 as a purely private venture. On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor and within a few weeks had inaugurated the Third Reich. In May of the same year Sir Henry Royce died at hi

Charlatan

Rearmament: the Pace Quickens,with the progress of the rearmament drive. An enquiry from Captain Halam, then Director of Aircraft Production at the Air Ministry, elicited the reply from Hives that Rolls-Royce could produce 100 engines a week ‘provided we can have complete control of our sub-contractors and augment their plant wh

neutral-posture

Rearmament: in Full Spate,lain made it clear that the years of illusion were over. But the lingering hopes for peace still prevented full-scale industrial mobilisation, and this is clearly reflected in the figures of engine production for the first few months of 1939. The December 1938 total was not again exceeded until the