Trent30anniversary.com Website Review

it is 30 years since sir ralph robins took the courageous decision to launch the rolls-royce trent . we are raising funds to commemorate this momentous decision and recognise this exceptional man by seeking to establish the sir ralph in the mid 1980s rolls-royce had just 7% share of the wide body market with only a handful of customers and had effectively agreed to exit the market and become a junior partner to general electric.  as a direct result of ralph’s leadership, rolls-royce is now set to power 30 years after ralph's decision, with 6,000 trents sold to 175 customers on 7 aircraft types, a trent powered aircraft takes off or lands somewhere in the world every 10 seconds.  almost 10 million flights have been completed without a single engine related rolls-royce’s market value and profitability have increased by a factor of 10 and the company now accounts for 1 in every 250 jobs in ralph has also made major contributions to marshall aerospace, standard chartered, schroders, marks & spencer and cable & wireless  we wish to create a medal to be awarded periodically to recognise engineers early in their career who have demonstrated extraordinary engineering leadership. we also intend that a significant proportion of the funds raised will be used to further uk engineering education to make this happen we need pledges of support from ralph’s friends, colleagues and others who wish to recognise the trent anniversary and honour the contribution ralph has made to rolls-royce and to wider uk industry sir ralph himself (who was informed of this initiative on his recent 85th birthday) will be involved in deciding the final details of the please show your support by adding your name to this site and, if you are able, making a pledge.  we are currently seeking in-principle pledges of support only.  we are not yet seeking any cash. .  a number of substantial commitments have been received to match every pledge on this website up to a total of £100,000  .