With wartime Britain at last taking the jet engine seriously, Whittle’s engineering team confers during a 1944 meeting at Brownsover Hall in Rugby, Warwickshire. From left: L.J. Cheshire, R. Dudley Williams, Mary Phillips, Whittle, W.E.P. Johnson, J.C.B. Tinling, D.N. Walker and Wing Cmdr. George Lees. (Weider History Group Archives)