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The Swan and Royal Hotel, a 19th. Century coaching inn, in Clitheroe, Ribble Valley, Lancashire
Dating from the 1830s
A wall plaque informs us;
PIONEERS OF THE JET ENGINE
At a meeting in the Swan & Royal Hotel in December 1942, responsibility for developing Sir Frank Whittles's invention - the jet engine passed from the Rover Company to Rolls-Royce. The deal was sealed over a five shilling meal between Rolls-Royce general manager, Ernest Hives, the Rover managing director Spencer Wilks and Dr. Stanley Hooker of Rolls-Royce
Gandhi stayed here in 1933 and Winston Churchill stayed between 1940 and 1941
The Swan and Royal Hotel, a 19th. Century coaching inn, in Clitheroe, Ribble Valley, Lancashire
Dating from the 1830s
A wall plaque informs us;
PIONEERS OF THE JET ENGINE
At a meeting in the Swan & Royal Hotel in December 1942, responsibility for developing Sir Frank Whittles's invention - the jet engine passed from the Rover Company to Rolls-Royce. The deal was sealed over a five shilling meal between Rolls-Royce general manager, Ernest Hives, the Rover managing director Spencer Wilks and Dr. Stanley Hooker of Rolls-Royce
Gandhi stayed here in 1933 and Winston Churchill stayed between 1940 and 1941