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...hope to fly a prototype Concorde in February 1968, test a second prototype in the summer of '68, and have their SST operational by 1971. The British Aircraft Corp. is building the nose and tail sections for the 1,450 m.p.h., 140-passenger Con corde. Britain's Bristol Siddeley is mak ing the engine. France's Sud-Aviation is responsible for the wings and midsection. To break even, the builders will have to sell about 140 Concordes at $16 million each; already 60 are on order, including eight for Pan Am, six apiece for TWA, United...
...November, Mrs. Heckler must run against Democrat Patrick Henry Harrington, 46, a tough labor lawyer with three terms on the Bristol County board of commissioners behind him. Because of redistricting, the Tenth District now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and Peggy Heckler will need every ounce of her vigor to hold the constituency for the Republican Party...
...Rolls-Royce has taken a step that will make it the world's second biggest aircraft-engine manufacturer - next only to the U.S.'s Pratt & Whitney. For cash and stock worth $175,400,000, Rolls-Royce bought out Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd., which already has the engine contract for the Concorde, the British-French supersonic transport presently scheduled for test-flying in 1968. Bristol Siddeley has been losing other business, though, including the engine contract for Britain's TSR-2, a tactical reconnaissance plane which the government decided to cancel last year. Meanwhile, Rolls-Royce has been...
...transaction, Rolls-Royce also acquired a holding company called Bristol Aeroplane and, through that, shares of three airframe manufacturers, including 20% of British Aircraft Corp. But since it does not choose to go into direct competition with the aircraft builders who are its steady customers, Rolls-Royce plans to sell these interests-possibly to the British government...
Rolls expects to retain all of Bristol Siddeley's 30,000 workers. Only one important personnel change is contemplated under the merger. Sir James Denning Pearson, 58, the chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce, has long doubled in brass as the company's top engineer. Now he will hold one position: chief executive of the merged company...