description: Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to spend 63.6 million pounds and buy its rival. By this time there was scarcely a single modern British aero-engine for which Hooker had not been responsible.
language: English
title: Not Much of an Engineer: An Autobiography
titlecomplete: Not Much of an Engineer: An Autobiography
genres: Biography, Engineering, Technology, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Aviation, History
ratings_count: 226
publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers