Rolls Royce Hucknall

Thanks!

Do we know what they produce there though,as all it says on the page is ‘today it is a production facility’
Whole engines for aircraft and maritme etc? or just blades.

Have a look at this:

http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/heritage/branches/hucknall.jsp

Thanks Dave,I have passed the info on.

Engine Components only

http://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/hucknall/End-of-an-era-at.3901590.jp

http://www.cpmg-architects.com/html/projects/rollsroyce_hucknall.htm

Engine Components only

http://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/hucknall/End-of-an-era-at.3901590.jp

http://www.cpmg-architects.com/html/projects/rollsroyce_hucknall.htm

Wow, as an ex Rolls-Royce employee who left in 2005, that’s certainly news to me!:eek: The mere mention of Hucknall had always just been inexticably linked with engine testing. Interesting reading there, thanks!

Perhaps you’d better read the blurb more carefully. It does state the first Merlin powered Mustang flew from Hucknall

Strange there own blurb makes no mention of the fact that Hucknall is the birth place of the Merlin powered P51? first prototype was produced and flown from there……………………..

Hucknall is of course older than the Rolls-Royce habitation. It was formally 15 Training Depot Station up to 1919 (504’s,DH.9s, DH.6’s and RE.8s), and the listed Belfast truss hangars are now used by civilian companies (non aviation). It was also the home of 504 County of Nottingham Auxilliary sqn with Horsleys, Wallaces and Hinds.

John

On the other side of Nottinghamshire NAM displays one of Hucknall’s test-bed airframes, Meteor FR.9 (Mod) VZ608, which was used for the RB.108 vertical lift trials in the 1950s that were a major part of the V-TOL programme.

You can see the distinctive ‘coal scuttle’ air intake on the aircraft in the bottom left hand side of the main picture on this page of the NAM website.

Perhaps you’d better read the blurb more carefully. It does state the first Merlin powered Mustang flew from Hucknall

Doh! …………………..speed reading again………..

Hucknall

Rolls-Royce is always spelt with the hyphen!
Hucknall, as John Aeroclub says, has a long and interesting history. The site makes fabrications and components for the big civil engines such as the Trent.
At weekends the company flying club – Merlin Flying Club – operates from the south side with two Cessna 150s G-BHRH and G-VIII and a Robin DR 221 G-RRCU. In the hangars on the north side are a range of light aircraft. The CFI Colin Hutson arranges the anuual Hucknall Air Pageant and hosts the East Midlands Strut Fly-In of the LAC – so there is still flying from there.
Billbattle who was there today!