The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust is an organisation that was founded in 1981 to preserve the history of
Rolls-Royce Limited,
Rolls-Royce Holdings
Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for ...
and all merged or acquired companies. Five volunteer led branches exist, three in England, one in Scotland and a North American branch.
Branches
Derby and Hucknall
![Kestrel V12 AeroEngine](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Kestrel_V12_AeroEngine.jpg)
The collection is located within the Company campus at Sinfin. The site at Osmaston Road is now permanently closed.
A separate site with a smaller engine collection details the history of the
Rolls-Royce Flight Test Establishment at
Hucknall
Hucknall, formerly Hucknall Torkard, is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 7 miles north of Nottingham, 7 miles south-east of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, 9 miles from Mansfield and 10 miles south of Sutton-i ...
.
Coventry and Ansty
The
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ...
and
Ansty branch examples of Armstrong Siddeley rocket designs is kept at the Derby site.
Bristol
The Bristol branch engine collection is housed in the Sir Roy Fedden Heritage Centre. As well as
Roy Fedden
Sir Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973) was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston aircraft engine designs.
Early life
Fedden was born in the Bristol area to fairly weal ...
designed engines from the
Bristol Aeroplane Company and products built by
Bristol Siddeley
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd (BSEL) was a British aero engine manufacturer. The company was formed in 1959 by a merger of Bristol Aero-Engines Limited and Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited. In 1961 the company was expanded by the purchase of t ...
a number of
de Havilland and
Blackburn
Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...
types are displayed.
Scotland
The Scottish branch of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust is based in the village of
Inchinnan
Inchinnan (Scottish Gaelic: ''Innis Fhionghain'') is a small village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The village is located on the main A8 road between Renfrew and Greenock, just south east of the town of Erskine.
History
The name of Inchinnan vil ...
,
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire () ( sco, Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn Friù) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Renfr ...
and has a collection of engines that were produced at the
Hillington and
East Kilbride
East Kilbride (; gd, Cille Bhrìghde an Ear ) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland and the country's sixth-largest locality by population. It was also designated Scotland's first new town on 6 May 1947. The area lies on a rais ...
factories.
Indianapolis
The
Indianapolis
Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...
branch of the trust chronicles the history of the
Allison Engine Company
The Allison Engine Company was an American aircraft engine manufacturer. Shortly after the death of James Allison in 1929 the company was purchased by the Fisher brothers. Fisher sold the company to General Motors, which owned it for most of it ...
which was acquired by Rolls-Royce in 1995 as well as later and current products of
Rolls-Royce North America
Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. is a subsidiary of multinational corporation Rolls-Royce plc. The American unit operates under a Special Security Arrangement which allows it to work independently on some of the most sensitive United States def ...
.
Publications
The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust publishes a range of books and other media specialising in aero engine subjects and other products, company personnel and history topics.
www.rolls-royce.com - Publications
Retrieved: 15 August 2019
Twice a year, members receive a publication - The Journal.
See also
References
;Notes
Further reading
* Donne, Michael. ''Leader of the skies - Rolls-Royce: The first seventy-five years''. London, England. Frederick Muller Limited, 1981.
* Pugh, Peter. ''The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - The First 40 Years''. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000.
* Pugh, Peter. ''The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - Part Two:The Power Behind the Jets''. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2001.
* Pugh, Peter. ''The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - Part Three:A family of Engines''. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2002.
External links
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Aerospace museums in England
Aerospace museums in Scotland
Aerospace museums in Indiana
Rolls-Royce
Museums established in 1981