51-462: Allenton may refer to: Places [ edit ] Allenton, Derbyshire , England Allenton, New Zealand , a suburb in the town of Ashburton, New Zealand Allenton, Northumberland, England is now called Alwinton Allenton, Michigan , USA Allenton, Wisconsin , USA See also [ edit ] Allanton (disambiguation) Allentown (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
102-604: A hippopotamus , elephant , brown bear , hyena and bison have been found there. The Allenton hippopotamus was found in 1895 underneath the Crown Hotel (established in 1891) and its well-preserved skeleton is displayed at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery . Allenton gives its name to a geological feature known as the Allenton Terrace, which is the fluvial terrace of sand and gravel in the lower valley of
153-481: A $ 100 million contract to provide gas turbines for oil platforms. In October 2016 a joint Guardian and BBC investigation alleged widespread corruption by Rolls-Royce through middlemen in foreign countries including Brazil, India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Angola, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Rolls-Royce became subject to a major SFO investigation. In 2013 media reported allegations from two American ex-employees that thousands of
204-400: A $ 4.2 billion public tender offer for 100 per cent of the share capital of Tognum AG , the owner of MTU Friedrichshafen – a leading high-speed industrial and marine diesel engine manufacturer, which was completed using a 50:50 joint venture company. Rolls-Royce and Daimler AG intend that the joint venture company, which also now incorporates Rolls-Royce's existing Bergen engine business,
255-412: A 100% owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc. Optimized Systems and Solutions Limited (formerly known as Data Systems & Solutions) was founded in 1999 as a joint venture between Rolls-Royce plc and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). In early 2006, SAIC exited the joint venture agreement, making Rolls-Royce plc the sole owner. In March 2011, Rolls-Royce and Daimler AG launched
306-738: A 49 by 49 ft (15 by 15 m) tall and wide enclosed space and it can handle a 66 tons engine including its carrier. The company completed its first engine run on the new test bed in July 2024. X-ray imaging allows to visualize the position of seals and clearances in real time while an engine is running. While it was retrofitted on Rolls' test bed 57, test bed 80 is the first to be purpose-designed for industrial radiography . To protect from external X-ray, 30 cm (11.8 in.) of lead , double walls are up to 8.9 ft. (2.7 m) thick (a 5.6-ft. interior wall and 3.3-ft. exterior wall) and provide acoustic insulation. Canadian prime contractor MDS Aero Support
357-423: A business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries. Rolls-Royce is the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines (after CFM International ) and has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors . Rolls-Royce was the world's 16th largest defence contractor in 2018 when measured by defence revenues. The company
408-712: A circular seating area on which are laser-scanned copies and models of some of the key bones of the Allenton Hippo skeleton at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. An easily recognisable feature of the local streetscape is a pedestrian footbridge over the Mitre Island roundabout, erected in July 1971. This footbridge is popularly known as "the Spider Bridge" and gains that popular appellation because it has eight 'legs' in four directions. Each direction has
459-408: A set of steep steps and a stepped ramp (for easier wheelchair access). The footbridge has been painted various colours over the years and is currently painted white. Allenton has a large number of employees in the aero-engine industry as Rolls-Royce plc has its jet engine production facility adjacent to Allenton. The former Alvaston & Boulton Board School, built in 1890, on Allen Street, houses
510-483: A technical association dating back to the Second World War. Rolls-Royce had previously tried to buy the company when General Motors sold it in 1993, but GM opted for a management buyout instead for $ 370 million. Owing to Allison's involvement in classified and export restricted technology, the 1994 acquisition was subject to investigation to determine the national security implications. On 27 March 1995,
561-458: A variety of modern shops, stores and other facilities, including free parking. The suburb has its own busy market every Friday and Saturday located on Osmaston Road. Allenton (formerly Allentown) was named after Isaac Allen who built the first houses there in 1878. One hundred and twenty thousand years ago, during a warmer part of the Ice Age, the whole area was a riverside swamp, and skeletons of
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#1732772961511612-540: Is a school, a dentist, a playing field and a sizeable public recreational ground, beauty salons, hairdressers, several charity shops, several hot food outlets and a flower shop. Just beyond the edges of Allenton can be found a secondary school and several medical practices. The local fire station, in Osmaston, is just a few hundred yards from the shops in Allenton. The Moorways sports centre £42 million redevelopment
663-582: Is also the world's fourth largest commercial aircraft engine manufacturer, with a 12% market share as of 2020 . Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . At the close of London trading on 28 August 2019, the company had a market capitalisation of £ 4.656bn, the 85th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. The company's registered office
714-459: Is at Kings Place , near Kings Cross in London . Rolls-Royce grew from the engineering business of Henry Royce , which was established in 1884 and ten years later began to manufacture dynamos and electric cranes. Charles Rolls established a separate business with Royce in 1904 because Royce had developed a range of cars which Rolls wanted to sell. A corporate owner was incorporated in 1906 with
765-476: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Allenton, Derbyshire Allenton is a small suburb of the city of Derby , England, situated about three miles south of the city centre. It is located between the suburbs of Osmaston , Boulton , Alvaston and Shelton Lock , and is within the Alvaston South ward. Allenton has a high footfall, with
816-532: Is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . Following the acquisition of Goodrich by United Technologies Corporation in July 2012, Rolls-Royce announced it would purchase Goodrich's 50% share of Aero Engine Controls to become wholly owned by Rolls-Royce. At the June 2019 Paris Air Show , Rolls-Royce announced its acquisition of Siemens' electric propulsion branch (while they are partners on
867-609: Is now Vinters Engineering Limited. Rolls-Royce sold Vickers Defence Systems (the other major Vickers area of business) to Alvis plc in 2002. Rolls-Royce has established a leading position in the corporate and regional airline sector through the development of the Tay engine, the Allison acquisition and the consolidation of the BMW Rolls-Royce joint venture. In 1999, BMW Rolls-Royce was renamed Rolls-Royce Deutschland and became
918-498: Is part of the National Cycle Network . Adjacent to the shopping area is a public house: The Crown Inn (see Crown Hotel above), a Victorian roadside inn dating to 1891 and built by Issac Allen, the original developer of Allenton. Another public house, in a Stockbroker's Tudor design, by the name of The Mitre, was opened in 1930 for Zachary Smith's brewery when Harvey Road was built, and was demolished in 2020. There
969-613: Is responsible for design and management, test systems supply, engine adapters, support systems and data acquisition and control while construction is done by Buckingham Group Contracting. In 1988, Rolls-Royce acquired Northern Engineering Industries (NEI), based in the North East of England , a group of heavy engineering companies mainly associated with electrical generation and power management. The group included Clarke Chapman (cranes), Reyrolle (now part of Siemens ) and Parsons (now part of Siemens steam turbines ). The company
1020-562: Is scheduled to be completed by March 2022 with a competition-standard, 50-metre competition swimming pool having moveable booms and two leisure pools with flumes . The location has further infrastructure of sauna, dance studio and gym to complement the existing running track, with the whole being named Moorways Sports Village. Rolls-Royce plc Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce,
1071-474: Is the largest of its kind, sized for engines of up to 140,000 lbf (620 kN) of thrust. Design started in 2017, construction began in 2018 and it should be commissioned by mid-2020. The 80,730 sq ft (7,500 m ) facility is 426.5 ft (130.0 m) long, has a 95 ft (29 m) tall intake tower and a 123 ft (37 m) tall exhaust stack. Built from 3,450 tons of steel and 27,000 m (950,000 cu ft) of concrete, it has
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#17327729615111122-654: The COVID-19 pandemic . Around 3,000 job losses were expected in the UK, half of them in Derby. In February 2021, Rolls-Royce started talks concerning an operational shutdown of its civil aerospace unit that might last for two weeks due to the impact of Covid-19 and its restrictions. Rolls-Royce announced, in October 2023, that it would cut 2,500 jobs, or 6 per cent of its total workforce. Rolls-Royce's £90 million test bed 80
1173-555: The E-Fan X demonstrator), to be completed in late 2019, employing 180 in Germany and Hungary. In May 2014, Rolls-Royce sold its energy gas turbine and compressor business to Siemens for £785 million. In July 2018, Rolls-Royce sold its commercial marine business to Kongsberg for £500 million. In September 2019, Rolls-Royce agreed to sell its civil nuclear services businesses in the U.S., Canada, Mondragon France, and Gateshead UK to
1224-544: The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem invented by Lockheed Martin for the F-35 Lightning II to production level; The F-35 is planned to be produced in significant numbers. At the 2005 Paris Air Show , Rolls-Royce secured in excess of $ 1 billion worth of orders. The firm received $ 800m worth of orders from Air China to supply its 20 Airbus A330 jets. On 18 June 2007, Rolls-Royce announced at
1275-707: The Trent 1000 for the revised Airbus A350XWB jetliner. As of July 2015, over 1,500 engines of this type have been supplied to 40 customers. On the military side, Rolls-Royce, in co-operation with other European manufacturers, has been a major contractor for the RB199 which in several variants powers the Panavia Tornado , and also for the EJ200 engine for the Eurofighter Typhoon . Rolls-Royce has matured
1326-594: The Trent XWB and the Pearl 15 for the business aviation market. It secured orders for 2,700 engines for wide-body aircraft and business jets . It expects to produce over 600 wide-body engines a year and should power over half of the world's wide-body fleet within a few years, up from 22% a decade before. In 2023, Rolls-Royce entered into an agreement for $ 3.52 million of funding with the UK Space Agency for
1377-677: The Westinghouse Electric Company for an undisclosed sum. These businesses had a revenue of $ 70 million and about 500 employees in 2018. Rolls-Royce is keeping its nuclear new build and small modular reactor (SMR) business in the UK. In November 2020, the company announced plans to build up to 16 Rolls-Royce SMR nuclear plants across the UK, continuing its nuclear division operations. In December 2020 Rolls-Royce announced it would sell other foreign parts of its civil nuclear instrumentation and control business to Framatome as part of its post-COVID recovery plan, completing
1428-547: The 2007 Paris Air Show that it had signed a large contract with Qatar Airways for the Trent XWB to power 80 A350s on order from Airbus worth $ 5.6 billion at list prices. On 11 November 2007, Rolls-Royce announced at the Dubai Airshow that it had signed its largest ever contract with Emirates for Trent XWBs to power 50 A350-900 and 20 A350-1000 aircraft with 50 option rights. Due to be delivered from 2014,
1479-508: The River Derwent that it and the surrounding settlements are built on. Allenton has a cosmopolitan outdoor market, although this has been in decline. The suburban shopping centre is among the largest in Derby although there are few high street chains except for Boots , Poundstretcher and Greggs . A functional sculpture by Michael Dan Archer was installed in the shopping centre in 2007. Commissioned by Derby City Council , it forms
1530-586: The US Department of Defense announced that the "deal between Allison Engine Co. and Rolls-Royce does not endanger national security." Rolls-Royce was, however, obliged to set up a proxy board to manage Allison and had also to set up a separate company, Allison Advanced Development Company, Inc. , to manage classified programmes "that involve leading-edge technologies" such as the Joint Strike Fighter programme . In 2000, this restriction
1581-470: The US Department of Justice, and Brazilian authorities. On 14 June 2018 the company announced a restructuring of the business to create three simpler decentralised units ( civil aerospace , defence and power systems ), to rationalise back office functions and to remove middle management functions. The cost savings should amount to £400 million per year by 2020, with an up-front restructuring cost of £500 million. Some 4,600 people are likely to leave
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1632-542: The business out of 55,000 employed worldwide, 3,000 job losses from the UK and the rest from elsewhere in the world (15,700 of the employees work in Derby and 10,300 work elsewhere in the United Kingdom). In August 2018 Rolls-Royce announced it was taking a charge of £554 million to cover faults with some Trent 1000 engines on Boeing 787 Dreamliners . Rather than going thousands of hours between inspections,
1683-433: The business under the name Rolls-Royce plc. Rolls-Royce plc returned to the stock market in 1987 under the government of Margaret Thatcher . In 2003 ownership of Rolls-Royce plc was passed to Rolls-Royce Group plc. In the same way, Rolls-Royce Group plc passed ownership on 23 May 2011 to Rolls-Royce Holdings plc. Throughout these corporate changes Rolls-Royce plc has remained the principal trading company. The 1980s saw
1734-559: The community library. Brexit negotiator David Frost took the title "Baron Frost of Allenton in the County of Derbyshire" in 2020, in recognition of Allenton being his birthplace, although he was educated in Nottingham. The old Derby Canal has long been transformed into a bicycle track with tarmac surface; this track, which runs through the recreational ground, offers access by bicycle from Allenton into Derby city centre – it
1785-487: The company booked profits in part with the delivery of the engine, actual payments only came in over time. Between 2003 and 2015, it sold a majority of its engines with these “TotalCare” contracts. The company announced it would no longer be able to move its revenues forward from its long-term service contracts to compensate for its contracts being unprofitable in the early stages after the introduction of IFRS 15 in 2018 and its profits for 2015 would have been £900m lower than
1836-458: The creation of a nuclear reactor on the moon. The project is intended to provide power for space missions. In 2014 and 2015, Rolls-Royce issued at least four profit warnings due to US defence cuts, a downturn in the offshore oil and gas market and its civil aerospace business, the company initiated job cuts of over 3,000 in response. Rolls-Royce had been selling many of its aero-engines in combination with long-term service contracts. Even though
1887-675: The deal involving over 550 employees in November 2021. In 1996, Rolls-Royce and Airbus signed a memorandum of understanding , specifying the Trent 900 as the engine of choice for the then A3XX, now the Airbus A380 . However, the Engine Alliance GP7000 would ultimately also be offered as an option on the A380. In October 2006, Rolls-Royce suspended production of its Trent 900 engine because of delays by Airbus on
1938-704: The delivery of the A380 superjumbo. Rolls-Royce announced in October 2007 that production of the Trent 900 had been restarted after a twelve-month suspension caused by delays to the A380. In 2011, Rolls-Royce faced scrutiny after high profile incidents involving the Trent 900. One of the engines suffered a partial power loss during a Qantas flight in February 2011. This followed an incident in November 2010 in which an engine disintegrated in flight causing Qantas Flight 32 to make an emergency landing in Singapore. The aircraft
1989-405: The faults with turbine blades mean the engines currently require inspection every 300 hours of flight. In the same announcement Rolls-Royce said it would spend £450m fixing faults on the Trent 1000 in 2018, £450m in 2019 and £350m in 2020, with the work complete by 2022. In May 2020, the company announced its intention to cut 20% of its workforce (approximately 9,000 staff) worldwide as a result of
2040-823: The integration of the reactor design, the PWR3 , for UK's next generation nuclear-armed submarines . In March 2023, Rolls-Royce announced that Rolls-Royce Submarines Limited will provide nuclear reactors for the SSN-AUKUS class of submarines for both the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. To support the SSN-AUKUS programme, Rolls-Royce announced it would double the size of the Rolls-Royce Submarines LTD site in Raynesway, Derby creating 1,170 jobs in
2091-459: The introduction of a policy to offer an engine fitment on a much wider range of civil aircraft types, with the company's engines now powering 17 different airliners (and their variants) compared to General Electric 's 14 and Pratt & Whitney 's 10. The civil engines business represents the company's main area of growth. Between 2010 and 2018, Rolls-Royce invested £11 billion in facilities and R&D and launched six new civil engines including
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2142-445: The name Rolls-Royce Limited . In 1971 the same company, Rolls-Royce Limited, entered voluntary liquidation because it was unable to meet its financial obligations. It remains in existence today, still in liquidation. Its business and assets were bought by the government using a company created for the purpose named Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited. Rolls-Royce Motors was separated out in 1973. Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited currently carries on
2193-515: The order is potentially worth up to 8.4 billion US Dollars at list prices. On 20 November 2007, Rolls-Royce announced plans to build its first Asian aero engine facility in the Seletar Aerospace Park , Singapore. The $ 562m (£355m) plant complements its existing facility at Derby by concentrating on the assembly and testing of large civil engines, including Trent 1000 and Trent XWB. Productivity will be higher than at Derby, as
2244-482: The plant is fully integrated, as opposed to manufacturing occurring across five sites in the UK: a Trent 900 will take only 14 days to manufacture, as opposed to 20 in the UK. Originally expected to provide employment for 330 people, by the start of production in 2012, 1,600 employees were based in Singapore. In May 2012, Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations won a Ministry of Defence contract worth more than £400 million for
2295-638: The process Rolls-Royce has been accused numerous times of corrupt practices and bribery . In 2014, facing allegations of bribery in the aftermath of the Sudhir Choudhrie affair, Rolls-Royce offered to return money to the Indian government. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) also investigated allegations of bribery in Indonesia and China. In February 2015 Rolls-Royce was accused of bribing an employee of Brazil's state-controlled oil company to win
2346-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allenton&oldid=1053083794 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
2397-470: The £1.4bn it reported if it had followed the new accounting standard . In February 2017 Rolls-Royce posted its largest ever pre-tax loss of £4.6 billion; This included a £4.4 billion writedown on financial hedges that the company uses to protect itself against currency fluctuations, and a £671 million penalty to settle bribery and corruption charges with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO),
2448-415: Was announced that Rolls-Royce had received its largest order to date worth £6.1bn ($ 9.2bn) to supply engines for 50 Emirates A380 planes. On 6 April 2004, Boeing announced that it had selected both Rolls-Royce and General Electric to power its new 787. Rolls-Royce submitted the Trent 1000 , a further development of that series. In July 2006, Rolls-Royce reached an agreement to supply a new version of
2499-485: Was extensively damaged and the airline grounded its fleet of A380s. The problem was traced to a fatigue crack in an oil pipe requiring the replacement of some engines and modifications to the design. Trent-powered A380s operated by Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines were also affected. Qantas gradually returned its A380s to service over several months. In June 2011 the airline announced it had agreed to compensation of AU$ 95m (US$ 100m) from Rolls-Royce. On 17 April 2015, it
2550-498: Was renamed Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group. It was sold off piecemeal over the next decade as the company re-focused on its core aero-engine operations following the recession of the early 1990s. On 21 November 1994, Rolls-Royce announced its intention to acquire the Allison Engine Company , an American manufacturer of gas turbines and components for aviation, industrial and marine engines. The two companies had
2601-729: Was replaced by a more flexible Special Security Arrangement . In 2001, Rolls-Royce and its LiftSystem was among the group that won the JSF contract for the F-35 . The Allison acquisition, at $ 525 million (equivalent to £328 million), brought four new engine types into the Rolls-Royce civil engine portfolio on seven platforms and several light aircraft applications. Allison is now known as Rolls-Royce Corporation , part of Rolls-Royce North America . In 1999 Rolls-Royce acquired Vickers plc for its marine businesses. The portion retained
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