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Collapse D5290 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department - 1906-1999D5290 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department - 1906-1999
Expand 1 - Written reports and handbooks1 - Written reports and handbooks
Expand 2 - Drawings, photographs etc2 - Drawings, photographs etc
Expand 3 - Illustrations and photographs - 1960s3 - Illustrations and photographs - 1960s
Expand 4 - Rocket Department administrative papers4 - Rocket Department administrative papers
Collapse 5 - Published reports, articles and lectures on rocketry5 - Published reports, articles and lectures on rocketry
1 - Pages from Flight, 11 Oct 1957: article on the Rolls-Royce Avon 200 series engine - 1957
2 - "An introduction to rocket missile propulsion", prepared by the Rocketdyne training department - 1958
3 - "The case for liquid hydrogen as a rocket propellant" by A V Cleaver, for presentation at a meeting of G.T.C.C Ramjets and Rockets sub-committee on 29 Jan 1960 - 1960
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6 - "Reliability of rocket engines" by S L Bragg, Rolls-Royce Chief Scientist, for presentation at the Second Cranfield Symposium on Rocket Propulsion, 1961 - 1961
7 - Lecture as part of a "Discussion on Rocket Motors" at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2 Oct 1962 (anonymous) - 1962
8 - "Some problems arising from the use of hydrogen fuelled propulsion systems" by L E Maher of Rolls-Royce, for presentation at the Second Rocket Propulsion Symposium, Cranfield, 1962 - 1962
9 - "Aerospace applications of rocket engines" by L E Maher, for presentation at the British Interplanetary Society Symposium on Aerospace Vehicles, Nov 1963 - 1963
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11 - "A space programme for Europe?" by A V Cleaver, 9th Chadwick Memorial Lecture of the Manchester branch of the R.Ae.S. - 11 Mar 1964
12 - Hawker Siddeley Review, special aerospace issue, summer 1964; includes articles on Blue Streak's successful launch at the Woomera rocket range, Australia, on 5 Jun 1964 - 1964
13 - Bristol Siddeley "Rocket Engines" colour brochure, Aug 1964 - 1964
14 - "Future aerospace propulsion systems" by A V Cleaver, lecture to the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists, Farnborough, 27 Sep 1964 - 1964
15 - Pages from Flight International, 29 Oct 1964: articles on Rolls-Royce turbo rocket and "Space flight and missiles" - 1964
16 - CECLES - ELDO report to the Council of Europe - 1965
17 - ELDO P.A.S. pamphlet, "Injection of satellite into geostationary orbit" - 1960s
18 - "Rocketry and space flight" by A V Cleaver, on the occasion of the Royal Aeronautical Society's centenary: pages from the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, vol 70, Jan 1966 - 1966
19 - "The design and manufacture of a liquid hydrogen thrust chamber" by T E Steer of Rolls-Royce, presented at the E.L.D.O. symposium on propulsion, Oct 1967, and the British Interplanetary Society autumn meeting, Nov 1967 (copy autographed by Mr Steer) - 1967
20 - Rocketdyne advertising pamphlets illustrating various rocket engines - [1967]
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23 - "The design of test plant for the company's giant rocket engines ... and ... the Spadeadam rocket engine test site in Cumbria", Rolls-Royce `Heritage Trust' lecture by J Phillips at the Welfare Hall, Derby, 29 Jan 1986 - 1986
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