ROLLS-ROYCE AIRCRAFT ENGINES JET, TURBOJET & CAR ENGINE TECHNOLOGY 1960s PROMO FILM XD86445

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This brand awareness film was made by Rolls-Royce to showcase the cutting edge technology that it utilizes in its engines and how it has evolved as a brand over the years. The film opens with a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 plane, which enabled BOAC to inaugurate the first regular jet-powered transatlantic services on 4 October 1958 (0:06). Pilot in cockpit (0:08). Plane takes off (0:12). Air traffic control (0:28). de Havilland Comet 4, which completed the first jet engine airliner service across the Atlantic Ocean (0:35). Statues of Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1:09). Rolls-Royce logo (1:27). World map with Rolls-Royce locations (1:34). Map of Britain with Rolls-Royce factories (2:05). Factory procuring parts for Rolls-Royce engines (2:25). Turbine blades installed in jet turbine. Aero engine division at Rolls-Royce (3:18). Dart Prop-Jet engine (3:33). Vickers Viscount (3:43) for British European Airways (BSA). Armstrong Whitworth Argosy (3:58). Fairchild F-27 plane (4:01). Grumman Gulfstream plane (4:03). Handley Page Dart Herald (4:06). Avro 748 (4:10). TYNE Prop-Jet engine (4:13). Vickers Vanguard (4:26). Canadair CL-44 (4:29). Short Britannic 3 (4:32). Fairey Rotodyne (4:36). Avon Turbo Jet engine (4:39). Havilland Comet 4 (4:55). Sud Aviation Caravelle (5:02). Conway By-Pass Turbo Jet engine (5:11). Boeing 707-420 (5:28). Douglas DC-8 (5:33) in Trans Canada Air Lines livery. Vickers VC10 (5:37). Airco DH.121 (5:42). Jet landing and then taking off (5:53). Military jets fly in formation (6:02). Maritime strike and reconnaissance aircraft (6:18). Supersonic fighter (6:21). Hawker Hunter RAF Treble One squadron's aerobatic fleet (6:31). Rolls-Royce diesel engine factory (6:46). Boat’s engines roar (7:27). Construction machines (7:37). Fire truck (7:47). Tractor trailer for Bright’s Wines (7:52). Massive truck carrying large rocks (7:58). Maryville Road Train Base. Truck that transports cattle (8:10). Bus (8:30). Diesel passenger train (8:44). Factory for motor cars in Crewe, UK. (9:15). Aerodrome (9:38). Military tanks (9:56). Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars (10:25). Factory for constructing Rolls-Royce cars (10:38). Car exits the shop among Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars (11:25). Engineers and designers (11:52). People riding bicycles (12:13). Rolls-Royce engine seen in mock-up and studies of advanced aircraft including what appear to be supersonic passenger planes (12:24). Wind tunnel test of turbo-prop (12:53). Control panel (13:23). Machine records the results of the study (13:45). Rolls-Royce engines being flight tested (14:30). Avro Lancaster Royal Air Force (14:37). Airspeed Ambassador (RMA Elizabethan) (14:42). Scientists testing the Conway bypass engine inside the Boeing 707-420 (14:52). Short SC1, a fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing jet aircraft, fitted with five RB-108 engines (15:26). Nuclear Physics Laboratory (16:01). Engineers at the laboratory (16:09). Danger sign (16:40). Jet engines firing up (16:57). Rolls-Royce factory (17:06). Engine is tested in freezing conditions (17:28). British Army armored car or armored personnel carrier (18:04). Submerging the Rolls-Royce engine in water for a test (18:25). Sign saying “Experimental Dept No Entry” (18:53). Employees testing doors (18:58). Bentley cars being tested (19:08). Bentley S2 Continental driving on a race track (19:45). Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars go in to be serviced (20:09). Map of Rolls-Royce Aero Engines-Service Facilities (20:47). Air France Caravelle gets serviced (21:10). Service facilities at the Aero Engine school at Derby provide comprehensive operating and maintenance courses for flying crews and maintenance engineers (21:37). Logos for the 70 Airlines that use Rolls-Royce engines (22:03). Rolls-Royce tests gas turbines (22:33). BOAC Havilland Comet 4 takes off (23:18). Havilland Comet 4 flys (23:44). Rolls-Royce logo (24:07). Written and directed by David Cobham (best known for "Tarka the Otter") and produced by Ronald Riley.
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[@65gtotrips]

One of the best on Periscope !

[@CSP-je7cl]

BEAUTIFUL AND KNOWLEDGEABLE VIDEO AND IAM PISTON ENGINE LOVER

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Interesting that a Rolls Royce promotional film mentions Royce as he was the engineer insisting on quality and reliability whilst Rolls was into speed and performance and a night out at the Ritz. RR during the 50's were pathfinders in turbine technology as they had developed high temperature alloys from the massive investment in metallurgical testing. ' The Conway ' is in the DNA of the majority of turbine engines.

[@tranmere292]

Very interesting to me as my father worked for Rolls-Royce from about 1942/3, when he joined as an apprentice at Barnoldswick (with Rover, before it went to RR), until he quit as an aero service engineer in 1963. He worked on many of the planes featured, including the Viscount and the DC-8. as well as one that wasn't. It was the Ryan X-13, a vertical takeoff fighter built in California from 1955. It has an Avon engine as it was the best in terms of thrust versus weight, I was told (I was a schoolboy at the time). The San Diego air and space museum has one on display at its annex.

[@Dmitriy_Pivko]

This factory of Rolls Royce is important for world industry more than semiconductors producers, like tsmc. Think about this - how many companies in the world produce gas tourbines?

[@nlpnt]

By the 1970s Rolls-Royce went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the British government. Labour was in power and saw the necessity of saving the high-tech, defense-critical aircraft engine division but not the maker of quaint ultra-luxury cars, so the car division was sold off to the first of a few owners outside the auto industry while the "real" Rolls-Royce company concentrated on the aerospace sector.

[@treypeters1087]

So, so cool

[@Seasonstobecheerful]

Jolly good stuff.

[@blitzy99]

Neat video. I wonder if the comet shown was one of the two that crashed... 🤔

[@BobGeogeo]

The video says Comet 4. The accidents were Comet 1 and 1A.

[@kiwiwifi]

Imagine the machines we would have today if OPEC weren't so greedy

[@flightfernando]

Brits🇬🇧are stunning

[@keithammleter3824]

Wasn't long after this film that RR came up with the dreadful RB-211 jet engine that almost sent Lockheed broke. It couldn't pass the US bird ingestion test. And it sent RR broke too, but the British Government bailed them out. RR engines still cause dangerous incidents - eg a Trent engine (derivative of the RB-211) exploded a few years ago on a Qantas airliner because a critical oil feed pipe was incorrectly manufactured by RR.

[@burntorangeak]

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[@madrzegada3700]

Congratulations my child, you did well ! The best time in your life huh?

[@indigohammer5732]

Your life must totally suck.

[@trueleo7893]

Go straight to the top of the class! What an achievement 👏🏻

[@unironicaluser1867]

how the mighty fall

[@kiwiwifi]

Shame RR handed their blueprints over to the Russians.

[@Cartoonman154]

You mean the government at the time did.

[@keithammleter3824]

@@Cartoonman154 The British Government could have forbidden the sale if it wished, but it was a commercial transaction between a Russian aircraft company and Rolls Royce. Britain was bankrupt and the government was borrowing huge amounts of money from the World Bank. If the government had forbidden the sale there probably would have been questions from the World Bank - "What do you think you are doing, son? You told us you would make every effort to trade out of your mess and repay the loans."

[@Carstuff111]

Watching all of this testing of their cars, and yet, as beautiful as their cars were and as much as they were tested, they still hand built perfect garbage.

[@keithammleter3824]

Very old fashioned looking cars with mechanical brakes. The competition had modern styling and hydraulic brakes. But at least RR had come to its senses on the engine, dropped the old F-head six and switched to making a clone of the Cadillac Big Block V8 and to using a GM Hydramatic gearbox. I have worked with large industrial diesel engines. RR engines were just as unreliable as other British engines, and not a patch on American engines from Cat or Cummins or Detroit.