Channel 5 (UK) Documentaries

Rolls-Royce: The Rise and Fall of a Great British Brand (2018x40)

Air date: Jun 25, 2018

The inside story of the engineering company, looking at how the firm founded by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce created the ultimate in luxury car brands and designed the Merlin engine, which was key to the Allied air victory in 1945. But it was also the aero engine division that brought Rolls-Royce down, when the ill-fated RB211 jet caused the company to go bankrupt in 1971.