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Not Much of an Engineer
Overview
Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend 63.6 million pounds and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.
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- ISBN-13: 9781853102851
- ISBN-10: 1853102857
- Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
- Publish Date: January 1985
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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