Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Rolls Royce

For some odd reason, someone got the idea to preserve this jet engine from the Concorde supersonic transport in the S.S. Great Britain's museum, complete with a video of the Concorde's test flight. The only real connection between the two is that both the S.S. Great Britain and the Concorde were built and tested near Bristol, and Rolls Royce, a contractor that worked on this engine, also helped to build the reproduction engines now in the Great Britain. It might have been just a funding issue. Someone got this engine, and had to find a place to keep it. The display plaque calls the S.S. Great Britain the "Concorde" of its day, but actually the Great Britain, while fast, was not the fastest ship in the world. A better aviation comparison would be with the Airbus A380, as the Great Britain WAS the biggest ship of its day.