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...Under its original name Cantrell & Cochrane it was even mentioned in James Joyce’s epic 1922 novel Ulysses when the hero Leopold Bloom notices the “multicoloured hoardings for Cantrell & Cochrane’s ginger...
...Just about any remotely famous person who ever lived in or visited Northampton makes an appearance here, be it Charlie Chaplin, John Bunyan, the composer Malcolm Arnold, or James Joyce’s daughter Lucia....
...David Joyce, chief executive of GE Aviation, said in a statement: “The uncertainty around the Ex-Im Bank in the US requires that companies like GE create alternatives in order to compete internationally....
...David Joyce, chief executive of GE Aviation, said engine makers faced a challenge....
...President and CEO, GE Aviation Tim Mahoney President and CEO, Honeywell Aerospace Paul Adams President, Pratt & Whitney Tony Wood President — Aerospace, Rolls-Royce Philippe Petitcolin CEO, Safran...
...Mr Joyce portrays Pratt’s approach as a radical attempt to force its way back into narrow-body engines after two decades....
...“You don’t complicate the design of the engine in order to get fuel efficiency,” David Joyce, GE Aviation’s chief executive, says. “That’s the way we’ve thought about engine design forever.”...
...The other aircraft being flown by Emirates and Air France-KLM are powered by Engine Alliance engines, which are made by a GE-Pratt & Whitney consortium....
...Alan Joyce, Qantas chief executive, said: “On three of the engines what we found are slight anomalies, oil where oil shouldn’t be.”...
...David Joyce, chief executive of GE Aviation, said the offer was designed to counter sky-high official estimates for the cost to complete the engine that were used to disqualify the project....
...My Bass and Other Animals By Guy Pratt Orion £12.99, 293 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 In this genial memoir, session musician Guy Pratt spills the beans on studio encounters with the likes of Tina Turner...
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