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Dr. A. A. Griffith, CBE, FRS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Donald Eyre
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From June 1937, I had been working on advanced project design schemes with a small group located at the Rolls-Royce guest house. An ideal spot for quiet concentration, in extensive private grounds by the river Derwent and on the outskirts of the village of Duffield.

Early in 1939, we were informed that Dr. A. A. Griffith would be occupying a room at the guest house. E. W. Hives (later Lord Hives) had invited Griffith to join Rolls-Royce and to work on the initiation of aero engine research, in particular the gas turbine and its applications.

We were naturally interested to learn more about him but all that I could gather from my associates was that he was “tall, thin and had a hell of a brain”.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 666 , June 1966 , pp. 658 - 660
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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