Heritage Trust – Derby and Hucknall

Derby and Hucknall branch

Our Derby and Hucknall Branch focuses on the Rolls-Royce Company and its ancestors, FH Royce and Company, Royce Limited and CS Rolls and Company.

The Derby and Hucknall Branch operates through its volunteer members to promote and preserve the history and the engineering excellence of Rolls-Royce at its Derby and Hucknall factories.

We aim to achieve this through highlighting the cultures, the people and the products. We almost exclusively limit ourselves to the aerospace propulsion side of the Company’s business which includes those technologies which were spun off from this business to provide power for land, sea and air.

It is now 80 years since cars were last designed and manufactured in Derby and we cooperate with the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation to assist them in their primary role of the Motor car heritage.

We aim to provide an authoritative view of the heritage through maintaining exhibitions of the products with a team of volunteer guides, an archive of documentation, reports and photographs and other artefacts. We also hold a programme of lectures over the year and publish a series of historic and technical books as well as issue two “The Journal” magazines per year with articles written by the members.

We maintain an exhibition in Derby and a separate independent to Rolls-Royce Hucknall Flight Test Museum but supported via the loan of Heritage assets, both are available to the general public by prior appointment.

For more information or to request a guided tour of the Rolls-Royce Derby Heritage display, then please email [email protected]

Our exhibition is situated in the Company’s Learning and Development Centre in the Aerospace campus in Derby and tells the story of the Rolls-Royce range of products, with exhibits from before the First World War through to the modern civil large turbofans. The exhibition today contains over thirty Rolls-Royce engines ranging from Henry Royce’s first Aero engine, the V12 Eagle of 1915, through the Merlin and the RB211-22 to the Trent XWB of today.

The development of the aero engine, over the last century, has enabled many of the major advances in aviation to take place and with Engineering being the “art of compromise” to meet the best balance of the customer’s requirements, it is not surprising that different engineers from various companies have designed different solutions to meet these requirements. It is the object of this exhibition to show the advances in propulsion technology and these different solutions, so our visitors can compare and contrast the various approaches, whether they be liquid or air-cooled piston engines or two or three shaft gas turbines.

It is hoped that the facility will be used in the development of current Rolls-Royce employees and in the teaching of STEM subjects in schools and colleges and promoting the story to the public to intrigue and inspire.

On public display at the Rolls-Royce Heritage Exhibition in the Learning and Development Centre within the Aerospace Campus in Derby.

On public display at the Rolls-Royce Heritage and Future Exhibition in the Learning and Development Centre within the Aerospace Campus in Derby.

General:

20hp 1926 Rolling Chassis
WW2 Memorial Window “This window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force who in the Battle of Britain turned the work of our hands into the salvation of our country”.
Bust of Charles Stewart Rolls
Bust of Frederick Henry Royce
Bust of Ernest Hives
Bust of Claude Johnson
Henry Royce Lathe
Royce Motor
Henry Royce Clock
Schneider Trophy 1929 R Engine Piston, Plug and Connecting Rods
Flying Model aircraft of the Wellington and Halifax Bombers, Sunderland Flying Boat and Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
Interactive Screens

Piston Engines:

Eagle Mk IX
Hawk
Condor III
Kestrel IIS
Merlin Mk 1
Merlin III Supercharger
Merlin Mk XII
Griffon 65
Meteor Mk IV

Turboprop Engines:

Dart Mk 510
Tyne Mk 506
Allison T-56
V-1710
RB39 Clyde
RB50 Trent

Rockets:
Armstrong Siddeley Screamer
Rolls-Royce Gamma 8
Bristol Siddeley BS605

Aircraft:
English Electric Canberra Cockpit

STOVL Propulsion:
RB162
Pegasus

Turboshaft:
Allison M250

Diesel Engines:
CV12
MTU Series 2000

Turbofan / Turbojet Engines:
RB23 Welland
RB41 Nene
RB37 Derwent V
Rover STX B26 Compressor Impeller
Avon Mk 1C
RB80 Conway
RB163 Spey
Adour F405
RB211-22B
RB199
RB203
Tay
Olympus 593
BR710
AE 3007
Trent 1000 half scale Lego Engine
Trent XWB-84

Future Technology

1:1 Scale Model Aircraft of the Spirit of Innovation
Full-scale model of the Rolls-Royce UltraFan engine
A model of a small modular reactor
Hydrogen Demo Engine AE 2100-A
UltraFan Power Gearbox - 1st standard




Rolls-Royce Derby Heritage Centre 360 Imagery

A virtual tour of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Collection containing over 200 engines, model aircraft and engine parts at the now closed Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre on Osmaston Road in Derby.

Please click on the flashing blue/white circles to navigate through the exhibition halls.


View the virtual tour

President,
Chairman, Alan Newby
Vice Chairman, Geoff Kirk
Secretary, Peter Johnston
Treasurer, Vacant
Hucknall Group Chairman, Alan Spray
Hucknall Group Treasurer, Brian Wilson
Hucknall Flight Test Museum CIO Chair of Trustees, Simon Gibson

Telephone: +44 (0) 1332 823083
                   +44 (0) 1332 241533
                   +44 (0) 1332 241290
Hucknall Branch Telephone Number:
Telephone: 07859 773920
Answering Service when not attended
E-mail: [email protected]
Attention: Derby/Hucknall Branch

Exhibition Booking Form

THE ROLLS-ROYCE HERITAGE TRUST EXHIBITION

Visiting Times:
Monday mornings – closed to the general public – Rolls-Royce employees only
Monday afternoons from 12pm – open to the general public and Rolls-Royce employees
Tuesday – Thursdays – 9am – 5.30pm – Guided Tours
Fridays – closed to the general public – Rolls-Royce employees only.

All bookings are by prior appointment only, and with at least 3 weeks’ notice. Tour guides will be booked for all external visitors and a tour will take approximately 1 hour.

A maximum number of 15 people per tour.

For School STEM Bookings - large groups (maximum 30), we require at least one month’s notice.

Please allow approximately 2 hours for a STEM booking.

Photography is permitted and encouraged within the Exhibition and in front of the WW2 Memorial Window.

Please no food or drink in the exhibition area.

Day Time Details
Monday Morning R-R employees only, no external visitors, non-bookable, drop-in, no guides available
Afternoon R-R employees, external visitors (must sign in), non-bookable, drop-in, guides available to answer questions, no guided tours
Tuesday-Thursday All day Guided tours with three weeks’ notice, pre-booked only, internal and external guests, schools & universities.
Friday All day R-R employees only, non-bookable, drop-in, no external visitors unless they are already at the LDC for a conference/meeting etc. no guides available
Booking Requested by / Main Contact
 
 
   
   
   
 
 
 
Name of Rolls-Royce Representative hosting the visit (if applicable)
 
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Cancellation Policy

If, due to unforeseen circumstances, e.g. bad weather or other, we have the right to cancel your visit, and we will of course endeavour to notify you as soon as possible.

**IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL EXTERNAL ATTENDEES, PHOTO ID WILL BE REQUIRED, WITHOUT PHOTO ID ENTRY WILL BE REFUSED**

If you are running late, please contact the Corporate Office on 01332-241290/241533.  Your booking will be cancelled after 15 minutes if you do not let us know.  Our tour guides are mainly ex-employees and kindly offer their time to us.

Please submit this form directly from the Website or return this form to:-

E-mail: [email protected]

Address:
Corporate Heritage Department (LDC)
Rolls-Royce plc
PO Box 31
Derby
DE24 8BJ

Address for Sat Nav:
Gate 5a
Wilmore Road
Derby
DE24 9BD