Blair bids to save Rolls-Royce contract

Published: Wed Jan 4th, 2006
Source: www.thisismoney.co.uk



TONY BLAIR has reportedly written to President Bush in a bid to save a multi-billion-dollar Rolls-Royce contract to develop a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

In budget papers handed to Congress, the Pentagon last week killed off the planned back-up engine being developed by Rolls and General Electric.

Britain has committed at least £1.1 bn to co-development of the F-35, the most of any of the project's eight foreign partners.
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