Benedict Evans discusses the historical technological overlap between early aviation engineering and automotive manufacturing.
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“The reason there's a car company called Rolls-Royce and an aircraft engine called company called Rolls-Royce is that they used to be the same company because until jets came along, it was basically the same technology that, you know, big piston engines certainly in the kind of the twenties and thirties, it was the same thing. It was just bigger.”
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