{"id":942,"date":"2013-06-10T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:04:46","slug":"rolls-royce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/industrial\/rolls-royce\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Royce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rolls-Royce is a big company who make jet engines. See, you don’t get that kind of in-depth research from anyone else! The East Kilbride factory was built to cope with post-war demand for the Avon turbojet engines alongside the giant wartime factory at Hillington, but now it is the largest jet engine repair and overhaul facility in Europe.<\/p>\n

The factory is made up of four long main buildings – two appear to be being remodelled or decommissioned, so I started in one of them:<\/p>\n

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Some jet engines were being stored in this building:<\/p>\n

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Next over into one of the live buildings:<\/p>\n

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A heat treating cell:<\/p>\n

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And this is where I bumped into a worker (at 2am on a Monday morning, he was keen!) – and after that it was running and hiding from security with vans and torches for a bit, which was fun \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

The East Kilbride plant is closing in 2014, and is already partly demolished, sadly – bringing an end to a very long history.<\/p>\n

All images:<\/p>\n

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