The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust: Vikings at Waterloo

'Vikings at Waterloo - The wartime work on the Whittle jet engine by the Rover Company' by David S Brooks\n\nThis book looks at the early work getting the Whittle jet engine into production by Rover in the very early days before Rolls-Royce took over responsibility and beyond. The title is derived from the Viking longship symbol of the Rover Company and the Waterloo Mill at Clitheroe where the Rover factory was established. This story looks at the events, the technical breakthroughs and the inevitable mechanical failures associated with revolutionary new technology. It is also the story of the people who worked there and the hardships imposed by war. The Barnoldswick and Clitheroe sites were transferred to Rolls-Royce in 1943 coming under Stanley Hooker's responsibility to make the Whittle jet ready for mass production and also to improve the design. This story fills in the details of what is sometimes forgotten about the rise of the jet engine in Britsh and, of course, Rolls-Ro;