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Collapse D5290 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department - 1906-1999

D5290 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department - 1906-1999

Expand 1 - Written reports and handbooks

1 - Written reports and handbooks

Expand 2 - Drawings, photographs etc

2 - Drawings, photographs etc

Expand 3 - Illustrations and photographs - 1960s

3 - Illustrations and photographs - 1960s

Expand 4 - Rocket Department administrative papers

4 - Rocket Department administrative papers

Expand 5 - Published reports, articles and lectures on rocketry

5 - Published reports, articles and lectures on rocketry

Expand 6 - Other Rolls-Royce material

6 - Other Rolls-Royce material

Collapse 7 - Miscellaneous

7 - Miscellaneous

1 - Newspaper cuttings relating to aeronautics, the space programme, Rolls-Royce and rocketry; includes some obituaries of eminent men in the field - 1966-1999

2 - Caricatures of members of the Rolls-Royce rocket department, drawn by a member of the team - 1960s

3 - Note from Alan Bond [of the rocket department] to Maurice [Maurice Brassington, technical illustrator], relating to the E.L.D.O space programme 21 Jun - 1972

4 - Printed photograph of the B.A.C. Bloodhound Mk. 2 surface-to-air missile, no date - c1960s

5 - Bronze cylindrical object used to filter liquid oxygen: component in rocket engine - 1960s

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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