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Volume 56, Issue 4
1 April 1984
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| April 01 1984

New Rolls‐Royce Compressor Test Facility at Derby

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1984
Aircraft Engineering (1984) 56 (4): 16–17.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035969

The new Rolls‐Royce compressor test facility at Derby was recently formally inaugurated by Mr. Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. This facility is the most advanced of its kind in Europe and is being used to test compressors for Rolls‐Royce's latest civil and military engines.

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