A statue but no factory?
A letter in yesterday's FT:
From Mr Andrew Cook.
Sir, A few years ago I was touring the Rolls Royce car factory in Crewe. On a plinth in the middle of the factory is an example of the Merlin aero engine, which powered the Spitfire and the Hurricane and which the factory had been built to make in the run-up to the second world war.
"Without that engine, this factory wouldn't be here," commented my guide. "Without that engine, none of us would be here!" I replied.
The latter suggestion seems easier to defend than the one before it - I think a maker of aeroplane engines might have done quite well in a Nazi-controlled Britain. But in addition,with rather bad timing, we just a few pages before this letter learn that Rolls Royce have decided to locate their new aeroplane engine factory just outside Berlin.
posted by Matthew @ 9/30/2007 04:54:00 PM
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