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A LABOUR of love put in over 10 years has resulted in a Ribble Valley man making a unique and fundamental contribution to local history. A beautifully produced book entitled “Vikings at Waterloo” by for-
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at the Waterloo complex under several managements in the three decades after the war. The book, which owes its title to the motif used on Rover cars, came out to mark the 60th anniversary of the first firing up of the jet.
^oca^ issues as well. It also deals with jet and other industrial events
lives at Littlemoor, is by am just very grateful to no means resting on the the Rolls-Royce Heritage
historic laurels it provides. Trust for publishing the tt:------- . ---- -—*
His next project, about Clitheroe’s volunteer fire brigade, is well under way and he has an even bigger, tex tile - re lated one in mind. The book has been pub
■ ^ results of my research,” he But Mr Brooks, who has personally put in. “I ”
says. The development work
was moved up to this area to escape the bombing, and so most of the top
lished by the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust and the fact that the author is a man talented enough for key jobs in engineering and then teaching is plain on every page. The wealth of technical detail is pre sented in a way which will interest engineers and yet is fascinating to the lay man as well. t The text also illuminates
experts came with it. But many local people were employed at Waterloo over the years, and appear in photographs. Already, the book is a classic of local history.
by David Brooks, Rolls- Royce Heritage Trust, PO Box 31, Derby, price £9 inc. p. and p.
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he human and corporate failings which war in par ticular is prone to throw into s ta rk focus. For instance, Mr Brooks com ments that not everything written previously about the Clitheroe pioneers, both local and drafted in people, has been correct. Some co n tem p o ra ry records contained errors, though whether deliberate or. accidental, he does not
Safe r Brooks en te red teaching after some years working for Avro, where he served a five-year apprenticeship and made parts for planes such as the Shackleton. Later, he
ones; Always interested in
“started research on the local jet project 10 years ago, talked to scores of
aeronautics and history, Mr Brooks came to this area iri 1971, after he entered teaching. He
people, trawled through Rover records in the Mid
lands and Rolls-Royce records in Derby, and cor responded with numerous organisations.
from teaching five years ago after a decade as head at Barrow, makes light of the time and expense he
Mr Brooks, who retired
THE Whittle experi mental engine after it s second recon struction, circa 1938. The car e n g in e , mounted on the test trolley to the left of the photograph, was, for starting the gas turbine
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TYPICALLY, the book mentions the problems of secrecy at the Waterloo complex very clearly, but without over-dramatising the situation. It any German spies visited Clitheroe, no one ever knew! The project was never referred to in any written or spoken communication as a
iet engine — even internal correspondence called it “the supercharger.”
the mill and of the whole project, was considered to be of the utmost importance,” writes Mr Brooks.
basis and all the ex-employees of that period who have been consulted recalled that they never visited parte of the factory or offices with which they were not directly connected, nor indeed were they
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residents, who naturally wanted to know what the cause was. “Farcical explanations” including one that secret work was being carried out on cigarette lighters were thought up. This one was ironic — wartime shortages meant that such items were unobtainable, and making them was a popular “foreigner” for employees.
THE personnel of th e r e s e a r c h d ep a r tm en t o f Rolls -Royce at
W a t e r lo o M i l l , thought to have b e e n t a k e n around 1945 when the department head, Mr J. S. Jones, was leav ing to return to the Carrier Co.
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mer Barrow School headteacher Mr David Brooks fully and readably records wartime work on the development of the jet engine in Clith- eroe. In doing so, it provides insights into a whole variety of aspects of engineering, wartime problems, human and industrial relationships, a?
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