The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust: Jim Allison's Machine Shop: The First 30 years.

Jim Allison's Machine Shop: The First 30 years.\"" by John Leonard, published by The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust as part of its Technical Series of books. Several events came together to make it is a good time\nto write this book. The first was the creation of a branch of the\nRolls-Royce Heritage Trust in Indianapolis, which provided the impetus to\ncollect and organize the company history so that historical material could be\nfound more easily. The second event was the centennial of the original\nAllison company, which generating interest in its early history. The third, and\npossibly most crucial event, was the discovery of hitherto unknown microfilms\nof drawings from the 1920s through the 1940s that have provided more\ninformation on early design activity than has been known for many years.\nAllison\nhad little formal schooling, much like Henry Royce, but was driven to become\nsuccessful in business. To that end he excelled himself, initially taking on.