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Collapse D5525 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department

D5525 - Rolls-Royce, Derby: Rocket Department

Expand 1 - Plans and diagrams - 1957-1967

1 - Plans and diagrams - 1957-1967

Expand 2 - Reports - 1955-1962

2 - Reports - 1955-1962

Collapse 3 - Published items relating to Spadeadam - 1947-1990s

3 - Published items relating to Spadeadam - 1947-1990s

1 - Articles from 'Flight' magazine - 1947-1950

2 - Copy page from 'Flight' magazine: pictures and descriptions of four types of rocket, n.d. - 1957

3 - Pages from Machinery, Aug 1959, article 'Gears for Outer Space' on rocket-engine gear design - 1959

4 - Articles from Aviation Week, 19 Sep 1960: 'Blue Streak Motor Records 300 Firings', illustrated with photographs of the Spadeadam test site and describing the testing procedure 'Bell Readies Liquid Fluorine Engine Bid', relating to liquid flourine rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems Co. - 1960

5 - Pages from 'Missiles and Rockets', 19 Sep 1960, article 'Britain's Big Rocket Test Centre', describing Spadeadam, illustrated - 1960

6 - Page from The Aeroplane and Astronautics, 9 Sep 1960, showing 'Test Facilities for Blue Streak' - 1960

7 - Copy pages from Flight magazine, 16 Sep 1960, article 'Spadeadam - Space Springboard or White Elephant?' - 1960

8 - Rocketdyne brochure on the H-1 engine, illustrated with photographs and technical drawing, Nov 1966 - 1966

9 - Page from The Aeroplane, 13 Feb 1959, article 'Rocket Performance Problems' - 1959

10 - Photograph, 'Figure 3. Tubular Wall Thust Chamber' [cut from magazine or report: notes on Navaho III engine on verso] - (1950s-1960s)

11 - Copy diagrams of rocket engine parts, rockets and the Spadeadam site, mostly photocopied from periodicals/magazines - (1950s-1960s)

12 - Photographs of Spadeadam test site and RZ.2 engine [cut from magazine or publicity brochure] - (1960s)

13 - Page from the Cumberland News, 21 Feb 1975, article 'The Rise and Fall of Spadeadam' - 1975

14 - Word-processed manuscript of book 'Blue Streak Project' by Ray Hancock [some pages missing] - 1995

15 - Newspaper cutting, 'Britain's space rocket ended up as a hen-house', referring to Spadeadam, to reunions of former employees organised by Ray Hancock, and to his book 'Blue Streak Project' - (1998)

16 - British Rocketry Oral History Programme newsletter, vol 2 issue 1, Feb 1999 - 1999

17 - Spiral-bound booklet of laser-printed black and white and colour photographs of rocket test stands and rocket testing at the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment, plus pictorial ground plans of the site, 1960s - (1990s)

18 - Typed quotations from aviation or defence files in the Public Record Office relating to Blue Streak [no references given]; and photocopies of MoD documents, 1957-1960 [presumably from the Public Record Office; no references] - (1990s)

Expand 4 - Articles and papers not related to Spadeadam - 1956-1988

4 - Articles and papers not related to Spadeadam - 1956-1988

Expand 5 - Spadeadam photographs - (1950s-1960s)

5 - Spadeadam photographs - (1950s-1960s)

Expand 6 - Other photographs - (20th cent)

6 - Other photographs - (20th cent)

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

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

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

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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