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was looking for a northern-based greenfield site with easy transport access, an available skilled workforce, and a local authority willing to build the required associated housing: Rolls had been let down in Crewe, and didn't want to repeat the experience. With its ready-built housing areas, easy
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meant that it switched totally to fanjet production, and in 1965 became a specialist compressor component manufacturing facility.
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The Air Ministry funded the factory construction, with the facility opening in 1937. The industrial estate was opened in 1938 by
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Taken over by Rolls-Royce themselves directly on 1 April 1947, the factory initially repaired and overhauled both Merlin and
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set up a plan to treble the output of the British aircraft industry. Under a plan managed by the
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The factory closed in December 2005, with all production moved to either the new facility at
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List of railway station names in English, Scots and Gaelic – NewsNetScotland
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engines as well as producing spare parts. Increased requirement for the
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With the developing political situation in Europe in the mid-1930s, the
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railway tracks falls under the jurisdiction of neighbouring
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plant (which itself closed little over a decade later).
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engine. Having developed a new facility themselves in
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Rolls-Royce Hillington: Portrait of a Shadow Factory
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