Publications
Cooke Street - A Pilgrim's Guide
D G Dudley, 2012 (21 page A4 colour booklet, 33 photographs)
A short booklet detailing the history of the original Rolls-Royce factory in Manchester. Using composites of original and contemporary photographs the author has assembled a fascinating guide around the former Cooke Street site which has long since been demolished.
£3.50 (Members and Non Members)
Jock Heron, 2011 (326 pages, 112 photographs / illustrations)
The autobiography of an RAF pilot who flew a wide range of Rolls-Royce powered aircraft and concluded his career with the Company.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
HS45 - From School Boy to Station Commander
Peter Sherrard, 2011 (134 pages, 88 photographs + 23 minute DVD)
A history of the Rolls-Royce Hillington site near Glasgow, and the people who worked there.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS44 - Rolls-Royce Hillington - Portrait of a shadow factory
Derek Taulbut, 2011 (348 pages, 90 photographs / illustrations)
A detailed account of the design and development of the Eagle engine.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
HS43 - Eagle - Henry Royce's first aero engine
Adam Goodyear, 2010 (85 pages)
Published to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain this A5 full colour book traces the life of the artist, Hugh Easton, and his design of the stained glass window commemorating the sacrifice of the young RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain. Included is a reproduction of the 1949 souvenir brochure published after the unveiling.
Member Price: £7.00
Non-Member Price: £10.00
HS42 - “Something Quite Exceptional”
C W Evans and Y Rybin, 2009 (203 pages, 57 photographs)
ISBN 978 1 872922 44 7An A4 volume recording the support of Merlins for Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft, by Civilian Maintenance Units in India, and by the military on the Soviet-German front, in particularly difficult circumstances during the Second World War.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
HS41 - Overhaul of Merlin Engines in India and the USSR
David Tod, 2008 (228 pages, 80 photographs)
ISBN 978 0 9514394 5 6The author’s account of his apprenticeship and subsequent career in the Sales Department at Crewe
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS40 - Clouds and Shadows - the reminiscences of life at the Motor Car Division of Rolls-Royce Ltd. Crewe
R Lawton, 2008 (249 pages, 181 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 35 5This volume concludes the history of the Parkside (Coventry, UK) site and the engines produced there.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS39 - Parkside - Armstrong Siddeley to Rolls-Royce 1939-1994
P Tritton, 2nd edition, 2006 (335 pages, 102 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872 922 33 3The biography of one of motoring’s pioneers, and the man who brought together Henry Royce and Charles Rolls in May 1904.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS38 - The Life and Times of Henry Edmunds - pioneer, entrepreneur and ‘Godfather of Rolls-Royce’
Alan Betts, 2006 (85 pages, 43 photographs/drawings)
ISBN 1 872922 34 1Chronicles the history of Stoneleigh Motors, a company set up by Siddeley-Deasy to manufacture a light car and a range of commercial vehicles to complement the more expensive motors produced by the parent organisation. An appendix also covers the Trust’s restoration of one of the few remaining Stoneleigh vehicles, the 9 hp ‘Chummy’.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS37 - Stoneleigh Motors - An Armstrong Siddeley Company
D Eyre, 2005 (148 pages, 78 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 30 9Written in 1969, the author, a designer recalls his work with the Company and his personal work with Henry Royce and A A Griffith.
Member Price: £8.00
Non-Member Price: £12.00
HS36 - 50 years with Rolls-Royce - My reminiscences
Evans, McWilliams, Whitworth & Birch, 2004 (204 pages, 66 photographs/drawings)
ISBN 1 872922 24 4The adaption of the Merlin engine - the Meteor - to power armoured fighting vehicles is the topic of Number 35 in the Historical Series. The story tells how Rolls-Royce gave British tanks reliability and the power to haul their increasing weight at faster speeds.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS35 - The Rolls-Royce Meteor - Cromwell and other applications
M.C.S Barnard, 2003 (156 pages, 90 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 23 6Following their pioneering work on Whittle’s engine (Vikings at Waterloo) Rover built on the experience with a number of projects to develop small, cost efficient gas turbines, in particular for road use. Team member Mark Barnard recounts some of the trials, tribulations and successes encountered in the thirty years following the war.
Member Price: £8.00
Non-Member Price: £12.00
HS34 - Pistons to Blades - Small gas turbine developments by the Rover Company
V Kotelnikov & T Buttler, 2003 (116 pages, 133 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 25 2For the first time, the controversial sale of centrifugal jet engines to Russia is recounted from British and Russian archives.
Member Price: £8.00
Non-Member Price: £12.00
HS33 - Early Russian Jet Engines - the Nene and Derwent in the Soviet Union, and the evolution of the VK-1
Kirk, Felix & Bartnik, 2002 (146 pages, 101 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 22 8The definitive record of the attacks on the Rolls-Royce factories at Derby.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS32 - The Bombing of Rolls-Royce at Derby in two World Wars - with diversions
G P Bulman, 2002 (310 pages, 165 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 21 XThe autobiography of George Bulman, head of the Air Ministry’s engine team from 1928-1944. Edited and with a commentary by Bulman’s ultimate successor, Mike Neale.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS31 - An Account of Partnership - industry, government and the aero engine
Ken Goddard, 2000 (129 pages, 27 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 19 8An account of a promising airframe/engine project, which failed to find a market.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS30 - The Rolls-Royce Tay Engine and the BAC One-Eleven
T Henniker, 2000 (285 pages, 100 photographs)
ISBN 1 872922 17 1This book relates Tony Henniker’s apprenticeship years in Derby before recounting his experience in the field both in the UK and abroad.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS29 - Rolls-Royce on the Front Line - the life and times of a Service Engineer
Douglas R Taylor, 1999 (221 pages, 76 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 16 3This book chronicles the life and career of Major Halford, spanning his early flying at Brooklands, the work with Ricardo and Airdisco, designing for de Havilland and Napier and, finally, his work on early jets and rockets.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS28 - Boxkite to Jet - the remarkable career of Frank B Halford
H Driver, 1998 (128 pages, 52 photographs)
ISBN 0 9514394 48A chronicle of Lord Northcliffe’s support for the emerging automobile industry and his close personal association with Rolls-Royce.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS27 - Lord Northcliffe - and the early years of Rolls-Royce
B Gunston, 1998 (353 pages, 200 photographs)
ISBN 978 1 872922 13 3A new and extended edition of Bill Gunston’s earlier book, By Jupiter. This volume tells the story of Roy Fedden and in so doing gives a unique account of the Bristol Engine Department at Filton.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS26 - Fedden - the life of Sir Roy Fedden
D E Williams, 1998 (131 pages, 62 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 12 0A history of the Rolls-Royce Ansty site near Coventry.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS25 - A View of Ansty 1935-1982
L Haworth, 2000 (122 pages, 72 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 09 0A history of the Tyne engine by its designer.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS24 - The Rolls-Royce Tyne
K E Lea, 1997 (102 pages, 52 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 10 4The origins of the post-war Bentley Mk VI, Silver Wraith, Silver Dawn and Phantom IV, their launch and their role in the success of the cars built at Crewe over the last fifty years.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS23 - Rolls-Royce - the first cars from Crewe
D S Brooks, 1997 (131 pages, 56 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 08 2The first detailed account of the early development work on the jet engine at Waterloo Mill, Clitheroe, prior to Rolls-Royce taking over the project from Rover.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS22 - Vikings at Waterloo - The wartime work on the Whittle jet engine by the Rover Company
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HS21 - The Rolls-Royce Crecy
A Harvey-Bailey, 1992 (179 pages, 147 photographs)
Biographies of a dozen of the personalities who contributed significantly to the development of Rolls-Royce and its reputation.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS20 - Rolls-Royce - Hives’ Turbulent Barons
A Harvey-Bailey, D J Piggott 1993 (219 pages, 208 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 04 XThis volume forms an extension to book No 2 in the series and consists almost entirely of technical illustrations of the Merlin 100 series engines.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS19 - The Merlin 100 Series - the ultimate military development
R M Heathcote, 1992 (104 pages, 88 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 03 1A history of one of the Company’s most famous engines, the Dart, based on a lecture by the author.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS18 - The Rolls-Royce Dart - pioneering turboprop
G Bruce, 1990 (129 pages, 64 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 01 5The definitive account of the aeronautical activities of Charles Stewart Rolls.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS17 - Charlie Rolls - pioneer aviator
A A Rubbra, 1990 (160 pages, 127 photographs /illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 00 3A re-print of Arthur Rubbra’s personal account of the work of the Derby Engine Design office in the inter-war years.
Member Price: £8.00
Non-Member Price: £12.00
HS16 - Rolls-Royce Piston Aero Engines - a designer remembers
A Baxter, 2nd Edition, 2007 (185 pages, 106 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 317The story of fifty years of Olympus operation on land, sea and in the air
Member Price: £8.00
Non-Member Price: £12.00
HS15 - Olympus - the inside story
A Harvey-Bailey, 1989 (164 pages, 111 photographs)
A personal account by Alec Harvey-Bailey of his forty-two year varied career at Rolls-Royce.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
HS14 - Rolls-Royce - the sons of Martha
OUT OF PRINT
HS12 - Henry Royce – mechanic
OUT OF PRINT
HS11 - Armstrong Siddeley - the Parkside story 1896-1939
OUT OF PRINT
HS10 - From Gipsy to Gem - With diversions 1926-1986
OUT OF PRINT
HS9 - Rolls-Royce and the Mustang
OUT OF PRINT
HS8 - Rolls-Royce - Twenty to Wraith
OUT OF PRINT
HS7 - Rolls-Royce – Hives, The Quiet Tiger
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, 1986 (51 pages, 25 photographs)
A transcript of a lecture given to the Trust by Lord Montagu on the 75th anniversary of the opening of the RR factory in Derby. Also included is the address by Rolls and Lord Montagu’s father at the opening itself.
Member Price: £3.00
Non-Member Price: £4.50
HS6 - The Early Days of Rolls-Royce - and the Montagu family
A Harvey-Bailey, 1985 (73 pages, 54 photographs)
A history of the Bentley motor cars produced by Rolls-Royce in Derby.
Member Price: £4.00
Non-Member Price: £6.00
HS5 - Rolls-Royce - the Derby Bentleys
M H Evans, 2nd edition, 2004 (385 pages, 212 photographs)
ISBN 1 872922 27 9The Manchester history of Henry Royce and the companies which became Rolls-Royce Limited.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS4 - In the Beginning - the Manchester origins of Rolls-Royce
OUT OF PRINT
HS3 - Rolls-Royce - The pursuit of excellence
A Harvey-Bailey, 4th edition, 1995 (204 pages, 100 photographs/illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 06 6Chronicles the development of the Merlin throughout the war years and lists all Mark numbers and installations.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
HS2 - The Merlin in Perspective – the combat years
OUT OF PRINT
HS1 - Rolls-Royce - the formative years 1906-1939
A McKenzie, 2009 (137 pages, 65 illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 42 3An A4 volume detailing the design and development of axial compressors from the Avon to the Spey.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
TS11 - Axial compressor development at Rolls-Royce Derby, 1946-1962
M Hartley, 2008 (127 pages, 84 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 26 3A full colour A4 landscape volume detailing the history and development of the Spey engine.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
TS10 - The Rolls-Royce Spey
J Leonard, 2008 (282 pages, 300 photographs/drawings)
ISBN 978 1 872922 38 6A comprehensive catalogue of Allison engines from the 1915 Liberty to today’s products.
Hardback
Member Price: £20.00
Non-Member Price: £25.00Paperback
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
TS9 - The Allison Engine Catalog 1915-2007
2005, (190 pages, 126 sketches/graphs)
ISBN 1 872922 29 5A series of papers produced in Derby in the 1920s for ‘Depots and officials away from the Works’ to better understand the operation and driving of motor cars.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £15.00
TS8 - Fundamentals of car performance - compiled from papers by Hives, Lovesey and Robotham
W.H.J Riedel, 1950 (translated by John Kelly 2004), 2005 (156 pages, 84 photographs/diagrams)
ISBN 1 872922 32 5An A4 volume tracing the evolution of European rocket engine development between 1930 and 1942.
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
TS7 - Rocket development with liquid propellants
T C Clarke, 2003 (124 pages, 33 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 18 XProof that Royce originated the successful ‘slipper fly wheel damper’.
Member Price: £6.00
Non-Member Price: £9.00
TS6 - Royce and the Vibration Damper
Cyril Elliott, 2001 (148 pages, 142 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 20 1An A4 landscape full colour volume recording the work done on reheat development from Derwent to Adour.
Member Price: £20.00
Non-Member Price: £25.00
TS5 - Fast jets - the history of reheat development at Derby
G L Wilde OBE, 1999 (77 pages, 44 figures)
ISBN 1 872922 14 7This book introduces the reader to the problems of the flow matching of the stages in an axial compressor to ensure smooth and stable operation under all conditions.
Member Price: £4.00
Non-Member Price: £6.00
TS4 - Flow matching of the stages of axial compressors
S Hooker, H Reed, A Yarker 1997 (110 pages, 40 figures)
ISBN 1 872922 11 2A facsimile edition of one of the definitive piston engine technical reports previously unavailable outside Rolls-Royce in this format.
Member Price: £4.00
Non-Member Price: £6.00
TS3 - The performance of a supercharged aero engine
K Gough, reprinted 2006 (59 pages, 62 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 02 3A short history of the humble sparking plug, an aero engine part without which powered flight would not be possible.
Member Price: £4.00
Non-Member Price: £6.00
TS2 - The vital spark! The development of aero-engine sparking plugs
H Pearson, 1989 (43 pages, 11 photographs/ illustrations)
ISBN 0 9511710 8 9This booklet records a lecture given to the Trust on the patent claim made against Rolls-Royce in the 1960s by Rateau.
Member Price: £4.00
Non-Member Price: £6.00
TS1 - Rolls-Royce and the Rateau Patents
Format: PAL, Running Time: 52 minutes
A DVD recording the events held during the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Charles Rolls' death. The events were held throughout 2010 and at places with historical significance of his life and untimely death. Archive footage and images were used to illustrate his achievements. The film ends with the restoration of the clock at the Rolls family home in Monmouth
Member Price: £5.00
Non-Member Price: £5.00
Commemorating the life and achievements of Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls 1877-1910 - DVD
Format: PAL, Running Time: 50 minutes
A DVD chronicling the history of the first Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, from its origins in 1907, through World War II, until its closure in 2007. It contains archive footage interspersed with first-hand accounts from former employees of what was the centre of the Rolls-Royce universe.
Member Price: £5.00
Non-Member Price: £5.00
In the Shadow of Ghosts - DVD
A Moulton, 2009 (320 pages, over 300 photographs / illustrations)
ISBN 978 1 872922 39 3A full-colour A4 volume of the autobiography of one of Britain’s leading designers who was personal Technical Assistant to Roy Fedden, and later in his career, revolutionised automotive suspension and bicycle design.
Member Price: £18.00
Non-Member Price: £25.00
Alex Moulton from Bristol to Bradford-on-Avon – a lifetime in engineering
D Birch, 2000 (164 pages, 164 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 15 5An A4 volume covering the design, development and manufacture of armaments by Rolls-Royce in both World Wars.
Paperback
Member Price: £15.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00Hardback
Member Price: £20.00
Non-Member Price: £25.00
Rolls-Royce Armaments
2005 (72 pages, 84 illustrations)
An A4 memento of the Centenary celebration in Manchester.
Member Price: £5.00
Non-Member Price: £5.00
Rolls-Royce Centenary Luncheon
2004, (71 pages, 34 portraits)
ISBN 1 872922 28 7This book, comprising of 34 portraits and biographical notes, honours some of the inspirational individuals who have laid the foundations of success for Rolls-Royce today.
Member Price: £10.00
Non-Member Price: £10.00
Rolls-Royce Hall of Fame
L Jones, 1995 (80 pages, 36 illustrations)
ISBN 1 872922 07 4This A3 size book contains detailed sectioned drawings of piston aero engines from Rolls-Royce, Bristol, Napier, de Havilland, Germany and America, together with views of aircraft.
Member Price: £14.00
Non-Member Price: £20.00
Sectioned drawings of piston aero engines
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