From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Page from a patent application detailing claims for an aircraft's fuselage, nozzle, and landing gear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 147\2\ scan0215 | |
| Date | 23th March 1939 | |
| 4 512,064 forward compartment in said fuselage for clear of the ground. personnel. 13. An aircraft constructed and adapted 11. An aircraft according to claim 10, to be propelled substantially as described in which the nozzle is situated below a with the aid of the accompanying draw- 15 5 rearwardly extended part of the fuselage ing. which carries an empennage to the rear of Dated the 23rd day of March, 1939. the nozzle. For the Applicant, 12. An aircraft according to claim 10 F.{Mr Friese} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} CLEVELAND & COMPANY, or 11, having landing gear adapted to Chartered Patent Agents, 10 support the aircraft on the ground with 29, Southampton Buildings, the nozzle and rear part of the fuselage Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2. Leamington Spa: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by the Courier Press.—1939. | ||